2008-08-29 05:00:00
Okay, you can come one - but what is a cropper exactly?
2008-08-27 14:00:59
Darn it. My Blackberry ate my post. So, a list. 1. Clara and I had a wonderful walk today with our friend Kris. Kris and I stayed clean. Clara did not. (At one point Kris actually wondered why I was...
2008-08-23 08:22:41
Had a rough dream about Mom yesterday afternoon. This is why I do not take naps normally. Dreams are always scarier, more visceral. Something about grabbing that time to rest -- it just throws me off. I dreamed that Mom...
2008-08-22 05:00:00
Sounds nasty - but why?
2008-08-20 21:25:54
I would go refill that wine-glass, but I am SO sleepy already. That migraine like-to-kilt me yesterday, and today was a kinda rough day at work, so I'm better off with no more red wine. Digit, however, says, he approves...
2008-08-19 07:44:30
Things not to do when getting a migraine: 1. Go for a run for the first time in three months. (It was a great run, strangely. But I've done this in the past -- the first run is great. It's...
2008-08-18 11:29:22
My office is just about done. Even before I was given the surprise desk, I spent a full day cleaning out the yarn/writing room. I wanted more writing, less yarn. After hours and hours of crawling around and swearing, I...
2008-08-16 12:20:59
Lala is making bacon and eggs in the kitchen. She's wearing her pink flannel pajama bottoms with the horseshoes on them and a Boudin sourdough tee-shirt. I'm in my nightgown with yoga pants underneath. Hott. I've been writing in my...
2008-08-15 18:45:48
http://buffybetweenthelines.com/?p=404
Season 2 of the award-winning podio drama Buffy Between the Lines comes down your feed Saturday, 16 Aug.
Find out what happened over the summer between the second and third season of the TV series. Check it out on iTunes or the BBtL web page.
[ edited by Volo on 2008-08-16 01:47 ]
2008-08-15 18:38:34
http://www.hotinhollywood.org/template/index.php?p=performers
Neil and his HIMYM co-star Josh Radnor are part of the 2008 lineup for the annual HIV/AIDS benefit.
Also on the bill are David Boreanaz's Bones co-stars Emily Deschanel and Eric Millegan, and Alyson Hannigan's American Pie-husband (and Jenny Mollen's real life one), Jason Biggs.
2008-08-15 18:19:15
http://www.metacritic.com/video/upcomingreleases.shtml
Martial arts film Redbelt from our favorite Operative releases on DVD Tuesday, 26 Aug.
Metacritic gives it 69 out of 100, which merits a "Green" on their stoplight rating chart.
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2008-08-15 16:11:37
http://www.jamesmarsters.com/qanda.shtml
New questions and answers for August.
Subjects this month include, what to do if fight scenes (or love scenes) get out of hand, politics and how Spike might react to Buffy's *experimentation*.
[ edited by debw on 2008-08-15 23:12 ]
2008-08-15 12:14:43
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/telefile/2008/08/twop-10-most-annoying-tv-chara.php
She's made the TWoP 10 Most Annoying TV Characters list! (At least she's near the bottom at #9...)
2008-08-15 09:22:17
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17726
Both Buffy and Angel come out very favourably.Buffy was the bestselling non Marvel/DC comic, and Angel was the 2nd best non Marvel/DC. Very impressive.
""Buffy the Vampire Slayer" continues to be the top selling non-DC/Marvel title and came in at rank #12 with issue #15 moving approximately 80,424 units. This title has remained a strong seller for Dark Horse with minimal sales attrition from issue to issue. For a point of comparison, this issue of "Buffy" outsold all but the first two issues of the current "Wonder Woman" series at DC. The next best non-DC/Marvel title is "Angel: After the Fall" with issue #8 selling around 47,864 units and #9 selling about 47,058 units in June. Somehow "Angel: After the Fall" #10 managed to sell an estimated 3,364 units in June even though it wasn't released until July 2. "
2008-08-15 06:38:50
http://www.film.com/movies/story/the-five-most-rabid-fanbases/11597472/22494925
The Whedonites make the list, afflicted with Jossiness as we are.
2008-08-15 05:40:18
Image via CrunchBase There are some companies that are just different, special, and doing something important. Etsy sort of defines that kind of company to me. They are trying to make it possible for creative people to make a living...
2008-08-15 05:13:52
As promised, here's a picture of the "AVC" meetup in Washington DC on wednesday night. Here are a few more pictures. It's kind of funny to see a bunch of people gathered together because of this blog and not to...
2008-08-15 05:00:00
As easy as pie.
2008-08-15 04:59:58
Back in June, when Google announced Google Trends For Websites and Google Ad Planner, I wrote a post comparing Google's data to comScore's data and concluded that Google had a lot of work to do to get their data right....
2008-08-14 19:18:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKuUuJPDkrU
An entertaining clip from 'Yanks in the UK' the season 4 two hour premiere. The second promo video can be found here.
2008-08-14 15:15:19
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010482.html#010482
Over at the Making Light blog there is currently a thread in which slash is being versified to "The Ball of Kerrimuir". All of SF/F is fair game; other genres have also crept in.
2008-08-14 12:19:51
http://fan-sonneteer.livejournal.com/
Fantastic poetry about the Whedonverse by one of our own members.
Some of us have been delighting in Catherine's remarkable whedonesque poetry over in The Library and thought it was too fun not to share with everyone. Enjoy!
2008-08-14 11:45:12
http://alexgarner.deviantart.com/art/Angel-After-the-Fall-13-Cover-94787226
I don't think it's spoilery but I put a warning to play safe.
2008-08-14 11:41:39
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/08/13/which-neil-patrick-harris-is-barack-obamas-best-vp-pick/
Comedy Central speculates on which NPH role would make the best vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama. Unbelievably, Dr. Horrible doesn't make the short list.
2008-08-14 08:55:32
There was a set of map charts on some popular blog this week that showed how 'geeky' your web service is. The more its users were centered around silicon valley, the more geeky your web service is. Of course this...
2008-08-13 06:17:14
I love the concept of Yahoo's new Fire Eagle. As Mark Josephson of outside.in said to me the other day: Fire Eagle is a location wallet It's a web service that you can tell where you are at all times...
2008-08-13 05:20:18
Yesterday I sold the gold and silver stocks in my E*Trade account. Gold worked for me, silver did not, but I wanted to rotate out of commodities and into tech. Around mid-day, the following updates appeared in my twitter stream:...
2008-08-12 20:34:14
Did I tell you I got an Amazon Kindle? I don't think I did. I can tell you without reservation that I love it. I worried -- I thought it would be too bulky (it's not), or too first-generation (I...
2008-08-12 13:54:55
Our portfolio company Disqus has released a new version of their third party comment system. This is a big release with a ton of new features. But the one that everyone has been asking for is "native" wordpress integration. What...
2008-08-12 09:47:00
Longtime readers of this blog know that I have been an investor and board member of Return Path since 2000. Return Path is the market leader in email reputation and deliverability. Simply put, they help the right mail get through...
2008-08-12 08:11:20
I am taking my new 3g iphone for a spin at the gym this morning. This will be a brief post because I can't type on this thing for the life of me There are some nice things about this...
2008-08-11 13:14:11
My old email (and a group of associated addresses) turned off a while ago when we switched providers, and because it worked for so long AFTER I turned if off, I never thought to tell everyone to update their address...
2008-08-11 10:04:35
Image via Wikipedia I had the opportunity to speak to a group of entrepreneurs in Leeds yesterday evening. It was a friday night in August (the summertime blues), but the turnout was excellent and I totally enjoyed the evening. On...
2008-08-11 09:49:57
? Emerging technologies that threaten to destroy the current paradigm can have precisely the opposite effect. Remember when VCRs and then DVDs were going to lay waste to the movie industry and ended up saving it instead? The Web leaks...
2008-08-11 03:17:41
I was a little hesitant about this but I?ve come around to thinking it?s a good thing. A longtime reader of this blog, Jeremy Epstein, is putting together a meetup in DC for people who read this blog (I am...
2008-08-10 14:59:47
Many readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of "placeblogging" or "hyperlocal". I believe that the future of community newspapers will be found on the web where residents will blog about local issues that matter to...
2008-08-10 14:28:09
South By Southwest (SXSW) is the one conference I consistently hear great things about. I have never been because it comes at a particularly difficult time of the year for me, right as our family is getting ready to go...
2008-08-10 13:48:43
On June 17th, I left my office, got on the A train, and headed to JFK to grab a flight to SFO. Since that day almost two months ago, I have spent six nights in my home in NYC. And...
2008-08-10 09:19:53
A lot of Clara running and doing her patented floating-rump bump, and some of Miss Idaho leaping, and not enough (never enough) of Harriet being short and CUTE! (And me backing up like a crazy person to make Miss Idaho...
2008-08-09 11:49:05
From Merlin Mann's twitter: Looking for the real "Ultimate Writing Productivity Resource?" Here you go: "Go write. Now. Then do it again tomorrow." There's your "hack."Nice.
2008-08-09 02:46:57
Greg Yardley, founder/CEO of our portfolio company Pinch Media tells the following story about graduating from college and facing the career question: When I finished school, I had a MA in Russian history and absolutely no idea what to do...
2008-08-08 17:33:14
John Edwards. You let me down, man. What were you THINKING? I mean, come on. Let's just say he'd won in the primaries. Let's just imagine that he was campaigning right now against McCain. Edward's admitted affair and alleged love-child...
2008-08-08 05:01:38
Some of you know that I also publish a tumblog at fredwilson.vc This is how I describe my tumblog: I try to post a quote, a song, and a picture every day. Some days I actually do that. I also...
2008-08-08 05:00:00
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who was the wartiest of them all?
2008-08-08 02:35:12
Cool Edinburgh Landmark - Not Sure What Its Called Originally uploaded by fredwilson. I've been here in Edinburgh for two days. I leave this afternoon for Leeds to give a talk at the Old Broadcasting House. But the entire time...
2008-08-07 22:44:28
Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won?t. Before we can enhance the user experience for all deaf people, we must understand that the needs of deaf, hard of hearing, and big-D Deaf users are often very different.
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2008-08-07 22:39:45
The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. Web discussions too often degenerate into whines, jabs, sour grapes, and one-upmanship. How can we transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?
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2008-08-07 11:20:40
After three months. Back to real life. First there was family tragedy that I didn't write about. Then there was Mom being sick. Then she died. You know all about that. Then I was really sad. Then I went up...
2008-08-07 03:03:29
The news that some Facebook employees are selling their stock privately naturally focuses on the price/valuation (a deep discount to the $15bn that Microsoft paid). First of all, a deep discount makes sense. Most privately held venture backed companies now...
2008-08-06 06:06:59
Seedcamp London is europe's closest thing to YCombinator and similar programs here in the states (funny to say that because I am writing this in St Andrews University in Scotland). The deadline for applying to this fall's Seedcamp London program...
2008-08-04 20:48:40
You remember when you were in school and you liked someone and you tried to play it cool and then s/he asked you out (or you did the asking) and that person said yes? And you were all, "Cool. That's...
2008-08-04 19:26:24
I have had a revelation. I have had a revelation that I might have had in part before, but I didn't GET it until this weekend. This amazing weekend. People, I am a romance writer. And that is a fine,...
2008-08-01 05:00:00
Which century is that from?
