Category: Our Web, Ourselves.

I signed up for Dodgeball last week because I wish to be voluntarily stocked by people cooler than I and because my mobile phone, pre-Dodgeball, wasn’t nuturing the insecure pre-teen within me (NUTURE!). So today Suzan and I are at the supermarket and I innocently post to DB than I’m, well, at the supermarket.

5 minutes later, I’m staring at soy milk and a voice says “Ok, fine don’t turn around.”

It was my buddy Eris, in the neighborhood and my first Dodgeball meetup. I nearly cried.

Also, today, my podcast got not one but two new subscribers who weren’t people I’d begged to sign up. Heck, I don’t even think I’ve met them. So Elena Charles and David Milam, if you’re out there, I love you both.

What a red letter day for technology wanking. And lord, am I sad.

So I had a swell time guest blogging at Powells.com this week. They give you and email address say, “write something that has something to do with books” and you go. Here’s what I came up with.

My fried Sarah and a Sarah I’ve never met both read along. Not sure who else but it doesn’t really matter. Hard work but I think if I beg, they’ll let me do it again.

Up next, gotta finish the 4th episode of Your 10 Minute World wherein I continue to ride the word “pulchritude” into the ground. Stay with us.

Perhaps a slow trickle of links isn’t enough for you. Perhaps you need a firehose in your right ear of URLy wet goodness. If so try Diggdot which combines Slashdot, Digg, and del.icio.us into one continuous stream of information. Then spend 9 days detoxing in a darkened meat locker (via Laughing Squid).

So says the NY Times, Google has decided to acquire 5% of America Online. As of last night, I acquired 5% holiday indigestion. Because everyone’s getting acquired these days and I didn’t want to feel left out (via Susan Mernit).

If curious about where it all began, the very first issue of Boing Boing (back when it was a print zine) is now available online (via Laughing Squid).

The little vlog that could has been profiled in The New York Times and they just signed a deal with TiVo to be listed on the service’s directory.

Hopefully the folks from Rocketboom will be at SXSW again this year. Way to go (via New Media Musings)!

When did Yahoo buy del.icio.us? With Flickr, Upcoming and Konfabulator in their back pocket, something is up down in Santa Clara. Anyone want to take bets on who is next to go (via Kottke)?

UPDATE: Consumating, Ben Brown’s geek dating site has been bought by CNET. Ben is moving to San Francisco. The geeks are back in town.

Susan Orlean (look to your right. I’m reading one of her books as we speak) is guest blogging at Powells.com this week. Which is all sorts of cool. She’s good at it too.

I, like much of blogland, thought it was a rare treat to meet Mena Trott’s mom, at least virtually. If Mena is one of the early pioneers of the medium then that would make her mother one of the ancestors.

I’m calling her Grandma Blog should we ever meet.

You’ll notice a few chances around these parts if you look to the left. If you’re curious about where I’ll be when, You can see my Upcoming.org events. If you’re not that interested in what I write and just want a pile-a links, I’m posting my Del.icio.us links (RSS feed) too.

And if you.just.cant.get.enough of me, then you can now subscribe to my occcasional audio blatherings as a podcast. Take this url and drop it into iTunes, Odeo or however you get your podcasts and look for something called Smoke Trails. Because I really haven’t beaten the smoke metaphor to death yet.