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02/22/2012

The Poem du Jour

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn ...

11/24/2011

OCCUPY MERWIN. Posted this last Thanksgiving. Even more appropriate this year.

My all time favorite poem for my all time favorite holiday. Thanks by W. S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say tha...

08/25/2011

Stay Hungry. Stay foolish.

This is a quote from Steve Job's commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Do...

08/02/2011

08/02/2011

Oblation has this cool new bridge series. We love it. For obvious reasons.

Periodically, we like to give a shout out to some of our favorite haunts in Portland and Pasadena. Today, whilst running errands, I came across some new items at my favorite 21st century old fashioned printing press store—oblation. Can you guess why these lovely renditions caught my eye? Yup. Brid

07/27/2011

As self-referential as it seems, here's a post on tweeting.

On August 5th, I’ll be on an e-media panel with one of my heroes, Jane Friedman, at the Willamette Writers Conference. In preparation for that (and to avoid complete embarrassment), I’ll be blogging about the growing world of platform-building and social media. To kick this off, I’ll start with that

07/23/2011

Amy Amy Amy. Sad Sad Sad.

Amy Winehouse. Super talent. Super sad. RIP.

07/19/2011

Going round and round and round in the circle game. With Google+

Look out Facebook, Google Plus wants your users. As part of Google’s scheme to take over the world, the megatech enterprise has launched Google Plus under the (wink, wink) banner of Private Trial Period. (Can you say, BETA?) I got roped in a few days ago because I so NEED another learning curve, no

07/14/2011

iSpotify my iProducts. Today! For reals!

OK peeps! Spotify is for reals in the USA. I am signed up for the full monty and now in the process of downloading apps to the various and sundry iProducts. Some glitches involved with older devices, but so far pretty freakin easy to get the structure in place to start using Spotify. Once I get ever

07/12/2011

We heart 360s!

Last week BPC had one of their semi-annual smerg-a-thons. Laura came up from Pasadena for a week of client meetings and workshops in Portland, and we are still buzzing from the energy of the whole being bigger than the sum of its parts.

07/11/2011

Check out this fabulous new social enterprise, here in Portland: http://upstartpdx.org/

07/07/2011

me!

Ta Da! Spotify coming to the USA! Sign up for your invitation to the latest and greatest in music! Do it here: http://www.spotify.com/uk/coming-to-the-us/