Is a squiggly line circle in your logo required if you want to be a cool new media company? I wish people would inform me of this kind of stuff.

Technorati Tags: design, graphic design, web2.0

Travel advisory: While many of the cool kids I know are going to be in Las Vegas next week, I’m going to be in San Francisco attending Macworld (among other things). I’m not really there to “blog it” and I especially don’t expect to be doing any “live-blogging” but, well, I’m there and I blog, so you never know.

If you’re attending Macworld, look for me. I’m the guy who looks like that photo over on the right (unless you’re reading this via an RSS feed — then I have no idea what is over on the right of this). Or e-mail me.

Technorati Tags: apple, mac, macworld

[From the Tennessean] “Titans General Manager Floyd Reese, the man responsible for building the team through the NFL draft and free agency, has resigned.”

Observation: My guess for ‘who done it’? Jeff Fisher in the front office with a lead pipe. Or perhaps they just had someone meet him at the entrance to the practice facilities and tell him he wasn’t allowed to come in today because, well, his health insurance would not cover any injury that might occur to him walking down the hall.

Oops. I just broke that resolution not to sound “mean.”

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In response to a couple of e-mails I have received in the past 24 hours, I would like to announce that I am officially resigning from sounding “mean” in my posts. My “irony” appears to be getting more caustic than intended. However, don’t expect me to go all Trapani* on you.

*Definition of the blogging term Trapani: A blogging style that is refreshingly free of sarcasm, snarky attitude and without self-promotional references. (See: “Lifehacker Draws Visitors With Time-Saving Tech Tips”)

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Michael Arrington has used the loudest amplifier in the tech blogosphere to announce he’s ‘quietly’ launched TechCrunch Forums, a delightfully Web 1.0-style community. I’m waiting for someone (from Daylife, perhaps) to ask why the only RSS feed available is a global one. Why can’t I subscribe to a specific thread, for example? Or to a category other than “global”?

• ‘User-generated-content’ is a term only used by ‘old media’ | Reuters
  Actually, that’s not what the article is about — but my point remains: People who generate user-generated-content never think of themselves as users generating content.
  (tags: media social+media)
• 2006 Magazines in Review | Media Life Magazine
  Quote: “2006 was a puzzler. The year careened between great growth in ad pages, peaking at 4.3 percent for the month of August, and great declines, with a dip of 2.6 percent in November, and ended essentially even to last year.”
  (tags: magazines)
• The three keys to change | Fast Company
  Quote: “These are the three keys to change: relate, repeat, and reframe. New hope, new skills, and new thinking.”
  (tags: lifehacks life)
• Overclocked
  My friend Patrick Ruffini has started a tech blog.
  (tags: technology ruffini blogging)
• The silliest, and most destructive, debate in journalism | OJR.org
  Quote: “Journalism is journalism, no matter who does it, or where.”
  (tags: blogging journalism)