This is what was supposed to happen.

This is closer to what happened.

Pictures of my back yard when I get home tonight.

Truth.

The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. It was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us.

Thank you.

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Shirt courtesy of the folks at Mule Design.

Background.

If one message has come through loud and clear, it’s this: people across the country are hungry for better and faster Internet access.

Better visual than AT&T’s 3G coverage.

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Doug Johnson:

You can’t just be a “book” librarian anymore and be considered professionally competent even if your area of interest and expertise is literature.

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Here’s a bit of Seth Godin “appetizer” for what looks to be an interesting talk online at 12:00 CST this Thursday, April 29th.

My take is that [generation Y] is the last one that will be as totally brainwashed by the system, by the schools and by companies and by society to believe that the industrial age (and compliance) is their ticket to the carnival. The smart ones will see that and play a different game, and the sooner they realize how bad the scam is, the faster they’ll recover.

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Seth Godin has some tips about email.

The part with the “use your name” is something I wish more Twitter people followed.

8 things I wish everyone knew about email

Clarence Fisher on Ning.

The loss of one tool is not vital.

I like what he has to say about losing Ning. Unfortunately, Clarence is one of the few that I know who will be able to adapt.

Related: As I tweeted earlier…the fact that there is no free version is not the issue. Ning also cut 40% of their staff. That will be their issue 2 years from now…whether or not you pay or leave.

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