2008-02-29 18:41:08
I'm reading a book. The main character is remembering cuddling with her grandmother in Scotland as she learned to knit: In the afternoon, they'd rake up the coals and get the heat going in the small stove, sitting in just...
2008-02-29 11:01:02
comScore, a company that I am on the board of, has published a lengthy blog post about the paid click data that drove down GOOG earlier this week. I think its well worth a read for anyone interested in this...
2008-02-29 05:48:28
Soul Patch is a blues/rock band out of Boulder Colorado featuring two VCs, Ryan McIntyre and Jason Mendelson, both of Foundry Group. As many of you know, I am a big fan of the team at Foundry, mostly because they...
2008-02-29 04:55:57
Jeff Jarvis asks: So now the hedge funds pushing New York Times Company management own about as much as the Sulzberger family. I don?t know whether they?ll win their effort to elect directors to the board, but I do think...
2008-02-29 04:00:00
Hood? Redbreast?
2008-02-28 13:47:59
One thing I never liked about the home page of tumblr.com is that I thought it was wasting the attention that the front page of a web service normally gets. Well David and Marco sure fixed that with the launch...
2008-02-28 05:02:13
I ran into an old friend last night and we got to talking about the traits of a great investor. He said he thought the number one trait of great investors is discipline. I agreed that was key. But I...
2008-02-27 10:34:12
http://cbs2.com/video/?id=60749@kcbs.dayport.com
CBS2.com has video of "Buffy the Mosquito Slayer."
2008-02-27 10:31:52
http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/02/murder-club-cre.html
Two familar faces will be returning to the Jossverse.
2008-02-27 06:54:28
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000284/
Happy birthday to our favorite merc/liason to the Senior Partners!
Gift suggestions for Jayne: grenades, a scarf to match his hat.
Gift suggestions for Marcus Hamilton: maybe one of those lint roller things, or a nice tie.
2008-02-27 04:50:40
On Monday, I bought some more GOOG (and some more AAPL). I explained my rationale for both trades in this twitter post. I went into even more detail on the Google purchase in this covestor post. I was busy yesterday...
2008-02-27 04:13:19
I was making my way through my tumblr dashboard this morning and came across this post from Anthony of the Hype Machine. I have been waiting and wanting this feature since the day I started using the Hype Machine two...
2008-02-26 21:16:33
http://www.bigkevsgeekstuff.com/?q=node/64
Big Kev's Geek Stuff recaps their visit to Toy Fair, including an exclusive announcement about new Serenity merchandise from Quantum Mechanix.
The Serenity merch goodness is in "Episode 93 - Attention Browncoats".
2008-02-26 17:16:33
http://comicsnexus.insidepulse.com/2008/02/26/review-angel-%e2%80%93-after-the-fall-1-%e2%80%93-4/
The faniffic Mark Stoddard of The Nexus reviews the first four issues of Angel Season 6, with references to Buffy Season 8 and what it meant to continue the series.
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2008-02-26 15:20:04
http://videoedmonton.citytv.com/?fr_story=2fc1b0acb20768cf5409d7ec389113bc25b45bc9&rf=bm
One of the tv stations from Nathan's hometown caught up with him in Los Angeles and has posted the fairly extensive video interview on their site.
They touch on his early work and time on One Life to Live in the first clip but then spend most of the second part discussing his work on Firefly and in Serenity. The direct links to each clips are:
Part 1
Part 2
Great interview...Nathan has some lovely things to say about the whole cast.
Try to ignore the interviewer calling Joss "Josh" ... since she's sadly not the first (or the last) interviewer to do that :(
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2008-02-26 14:59:48
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/02/25/some-big-actor-to-character-age-differences-on-tv/
Guess which vampire makes the list?
2008-02-26 14:52:04
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=148182
The rest of the cast also have a few words about the project.
2008-02-26 14:48:46
http://www.paleycenter.org/festivals/paleyfest2008/index.htm#6
Woooohoooo, and this event gets better and better!
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2008-02-26 13:47:44
http://spcala.com/special_events/kingsauction_08.shtml
Summer has contributed a lovely hand painted and signed pet bowl for an auction benefiting the SPCA in Los Angeles (spcaLA).
Summer is one of several actors and LA Kings hockey players who have donated items to this auction, which began Feb 25th and concludes on March 3rd.
Her bowl is very cute, so if you'd like your pet to be eating or drinking out of a Summer Glau original or if you want to support a good cause make a bid and good luck!
2008-02-26 13:00:05
1. Going to San Francisco and meeting my wife for a burrito. 2. That burrito having half an avocado in it. 3. Discovering that the Salted Caramel ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery has no soy-lecithin. 4. Walking the city on...
2008-02-26 10:33:51
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1206844/
He turns 33 today.
2008-02-26 07:35:31
http://www.scifi.com/scifimag/
Included in the List: Whedon Alumni Jewel Staite and Summer Glau.
2008-02-26 06:10:22
Sure it's an outrage and whomever did this is a sleazy hack. But I for one am happy we are getting this crap out of the way now If the dems don't do this to obama, the other side surely...
2008-02-26 04:01:33
On Sunday night, our family sat down to watch the Oscars. Out of the six of us, four had laptops. Jess was doing her spanish homework. Emily was Facebooking and IM'ing. Josh was playing facebook and miniclips games. And I...
2008-02-26 03:34:11
Hugh at gapingvoid says that I inspired this cartoon. I am flattered. I love Hugh's work.
2008-02-25 11:10:37
Why is there a fruit fly in my yarn room? It's not a moth; that much is okay. OH GOD, what if it IS a moth, and I just don't know what one looks like? Need more cedar in here....
2008-02-25 04:08:44
That's how I ended a post I wrote almost three years ago, called In Defense Of Free. It's a concept that regular readers of this blog know well. But I still get comments like this one from hyokon: I am...
2008-02-24 05:55:21
I am a professional board member. I've been sitting on boards for almost 20 years and I've seen a lot. I've seen some of the best board members in action and have tried to copy them. I've seen some of...
2008-02-24 05:05:19
I've been critical in the past of techmeme and I still feel that too many people are writing to/for techmeme and that it's getting gamed. But I read techmeme every day, without fail, often two or three times a day....
2008-02-23 18:51:29
I wore Jeanie to Stitches today. She was very, very popular. My favorite "what pattern is THAT?" question came from a masseuse in a booth across from the booth I was in. The masseuse was busy doing her thang and...
2008-02-23 08:47:58
Cameron asked for a review of There Will Be Blood with this comment last night. So here it is. Daniel Day Lewis is one of the top actors working right now. His performance in this movie about the early days...
2008-02-23 05:54:43
Erick Schonfeld generated a lot of discussion in the blogs yesterday with a post talking about facebook fatigue and the flattening of the facebook growth curve in the US. But the charts in Erick's post tell me that Facebook is...
2008-02-23 05:08:20
At the risk of wading into hostile territory, I am going to blog again about facebook stats and the rise of our portfolio company Zynga on the leaderboard. Here is the adanomics leaderboard that shows the leading facebook app companies....
2008-02-22 15:24:07
Some of you may have noticed little music icons next to the links to artists and records in my "three records" post from yesterday. That is if you cleared your cache. Otherwise you might have seen the old smartlink icons....
2008-02-21 19:42:51
Jeanie is finished! Blocking pictures: Note two things here: 1. Yes, it goes on forever, doesn't it? I stopped knitting because I wanted a shorter, hit-you-at-hip kind of shawl. Not sure I'm going to get that. 2. I'm a terrible...
2008-02-21 14:36:17
Sorry for the lack of music posts here at AVC. I am going to make it up to you with three for the price of one. Nada Surf - Lucky - These guys, Matt, Ira, and Daniel, are fantastic individuals...
2008-02-21 06:55:40
Daryn told me about this cool trick with his tumblr player. You can type in as many tumblr urls as you want (separated by commas) into his script and get a player that plays a whole song circle's playlist. Here's...
2008-02-21 06:46:37
We will be seeing a version of this play out in Turkey. It's an interesting market. Piracy has all but killed physical CD sales and, online, people just don't seem to be convinced to pay for music (i am excluding...
2008-02-21 05:27:15
I told the Gotham Gal that I was going to get together with a friend from London next week. She asked me who. I told her his name. She said, ?how can he be your friend if I?ve never heard...
2008-02-20 08:01:10
David Hyman's been around online music for about as long as anyone I know. He's the founder and CEO of Mog, the blogging service for music lovers. He has a post about the future of music up on his mog...
2008-02-20 06:24:14
I've been on the board of Alacra since 1999. It's a company that sells data and services delivered over the Internet to wall street and other large corporations. They've been building some interesting consumer/SMB facing services and recently launched a...
2008-02-19 09:50:09
I am at the coffee-shop, and it feels wonderful. I haven't been here in a long time, and this is where my brain says, Yes. Okay. I will work now. I'm sitting in the window, something I can't usually do...
2008-02-19 08:11:28
Last week I posted the following to twitter: We've assembled 8 of the top developers we know and are talking about the future of the lamp stack That was not entirely accurate. We put together an impromptu lunch last week...
2008-02-18 10:04:41
Attention: To all of you planning on getting married, please do so like this -- Get married in a sweet sea-side town (Ventura is nice), on a late Saturday afternoon, at a cute hotel where all the guests are staying....
2008-02-18 08:55:50
A month or so ago, I wrote a post called "Why I Don't Like The iPod Touch" in which I described the shortcomings of the current iPod I am using. I still find this thing annoying to use but one...
2008-02-15 15:42:18
Version targeting will allow Microsoft to reach new heights of standards compliance where CSS and (especially) scripting are concerned. But to benefit from it, developers must explicitly opt in. That’s just not right, says Jeremy Keith. And it’s doomed to fail, because standardistas, by their very nature, will refuse to opt in.
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2008-02-15 15:06:53
Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work the way Microsoft proposes, argues Jeffrey Zeldman.
Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!
2008-02-15 04:00:00
As rare as hen's teeth - an old acronym.
2008-02-15 04:00:00
Rein in those wild ideas.
2008-02-14 16:09:26
If you are knitting Jeanie, and you get to the end of a row, and you are crossing the last 4 x 4 cable without a needle, and 911 rings while you're doing it, and you have to drop it...
2008-02-12 09:18:18
I feel like a knitting hack. I like to knit. I knit nice things. But this, people, is AMAZING. 700 knitted panels in this music video, which LOOKS like a music video, from the Quebec band Tricot Machine (Tricot means...
2008-02-09 19:19:41
I seriously think this is the cutest thing EVAR: Green....it's the New Blue's Kirsten made it. Link here. Matching dog toy! Oh! I want it all. The suitcase, the dog, the everything. I have a thing for old suitcases anyway,...
2008-02-09 11:25:52
While Yahoo!'s board did not lay out a plan to increase it's stock price (I laid out one on this blog last week), they are apparently going to tell Microsoft that it's current offer is too low. The Wall Street...
2008-02-08 14:05:09
I used to do this all the time, but I've moved most of my mp3 posting to my tumblog at fredwilson.vc The player on the upper right of this blog has the mp3s I've posted to tumblr in it. So...
2008-02-08 05:52:00
Four years ago, Howard Dean and Joe Trippi showed everyone how powerful the Internet could be as a campaign and fundraising tool. This year, it seemed like it was not as important. But the news yesterday that Obama's campaign was...
2008-02-08 04:00:00
Just think. Do you owe him anything?
2008-02-07 06:08:49
I opened an email this morning that started like this: I read your blog and believe that you have a firm grasp on web trends - especially for someone on the east coast. That's as far as I got. I...
2008-02-07 06:05:29
I read this morning in the NY Times that Barack Obama declined Hillary Clinton's invitation to a debate a week for the next month. The Times quotes Obama as saying: ?I don?t think anybody is clamoring for more debates,? Mr....
2008-02-06 12:01:15
Josh Kopelman is a very clever guy. After the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! was announced, he restarted a Facebook ad campaign targeting Yahoo! and Microsoft employees. And guess what, the click rate increased dramatically for both companies. Here's the data.
2008-02-06 09:50:18
You are very nice about the hat. Thank you. I blush. Ahem. Anyway. It's my last day off before the new week starts, and I'm determined to enjoy it. The house is toasty warm because I've decided that paying for...
2008-02-06 09:05:11
It's easier to twitter the big insights I am getting from this conference than to blog it. So go here or subscribe to this feed if you want to follow my thoughts from money/tech today and tomorrow.
2008-02-06 05:12:37
I'll be spending the next couple days at O'Reilly's Money/Tech Conference here in NYC. This is a sector I've invested in since the very early days of the Internet and really enjoy thinking and learning about. I plan to bring...
2008-02-06 04:51:59
Between 1971 and 1975, Ali and Frazier fought three times. Ali lost the first and won the next two culminating in the Thrilla In Manila in October 1975. Those three fights made a lasting impression on me, the first one...
2008-02-05 16:25:42
Josef sent me this link earlier today but I was out on my blackberry. It's a google/twitter/twittervision mashup built by google that shows people voting or talking about voting in a map visualization. I love america, I love democracy, I...
2008-02-05 04:05:41
Seth Godin has a classic Seth post on voting this morning. Give it a read if you can before you vote. Not that it will change the way you vote. But it will make you feel better about voting. It...
2008-02-04 17:27:50
The hat you've been waiting for! Inspired by the gigantor paws of Mr. Digit, the magical cat Who Is Not Dead, I used a larger version of the classic Cat's Paw lace motif and designed a hat for your cold...
2008-02-04 04:42:33
Let me start this post by saying that I don't think Microsoft will achieve its goal of obtaining some sort of balance and scale in the search market with an acquisition of Yahoo! If you look at the share of...
2008-02-04 04:06:09
It had been rumored for months that Yahoo! was going to get out of the subscription music business. Yesterday, they announced that they were shutting down Yahoo! Unlimited and turning over the subscriber base to Rhapsody. Yahoo! also announced that...
2008-02-03 17:14:17
I am tired. I want to write a good blog post, but I have lost all my good words. I can only think of ten-dollar words which in these days of inflation don't mean that much anymore, and I'd use...
2008-02-03 13:04:48
Before delicious was sold to Yahoo!, I really wanted to see if we could make the delicious search service a major player in the search business. It seemed to me that the best way to keep delicious free to use...
2008-02-03 12:17:44
Yes, today seems to be a day to blog about cool stuff coming out of our portfolio. I'll continue if you don't mind. If you look just below the music player on the upper right of this blog, you'll see...
2008-02-03 09:40:41
outside.in launched discussions (aka comments) quietly last week but they did something in the process that I think is even more important. They've built a place detection system and the first place they are using it is in their discussions....
2008-02-03 06:48:15
TweetScan - another really useful third party web app that someone built on top of twitter. tokintrader tipped me off to it in a comment to my ana marie cox post on tumblr. it simply searches twitter for conversations about...
2008-02-02 13:42:18
I can't link to this because Bob doesn't have it up on the web yet. He sends it via email and then posts it? Whatever. Anyway here's what he says about Vampire Weekend on Letterman: Last night I caught Vampire...
2008-02-02 05:52:26
In the interview with Sam Gustin last week, I said: I think we have to be mindful of the overall macro environment that we're in... It will be less attractive to sell our companies, so we may choose not to...
2008-02-01 07:27:25
I am not a major Starbucks fan, but I will drink it if it's an off day, a day I don't feel well, not up to making my own tea or coffee. Yesterday I felt pretty sick on my way...
2008-02-01 05:04:09
I put some lyrics from the epic Bob Dylan song about change at the end of my post on who ends a web service this morning. But they are apropos to the news from the big Internet companies over the...
2008-02-01 04:00:00
Don't string me along