I’ve been keeping an eye on Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment. It seems it took on legs:
Posts that contain "Acephalous" Meme per day for the last 30 days.Get your own chart!
While you can see a huge spike of blogs linking in during the first 2 days, it quickly trails off, illustrating again the “long tail” […]
Entries from December 2006
Wild Science
December 12th, 2006 ·
Tags: Case Studies · Lessons
Motherless Daughters
December 10th, 2006 ·
This will be the 12th Christmas since my mother passed. Although I miss her keenly throughout the year, the first holidays were brutal. One of the ways I cope is to embrace some of the traditions I miss so much and find new ways to share them.
One of the first things I remember learning […]
Tags: Lessons
Emergence
December 4th, 2006 ·
I’ve been quiet here lately. I’ve been busy, though - reading:
Once I digested what I read, I started writing:
I had some awesome editors for the project, but it meant more revisions:
At the end of the day, though, it was well worth it:
Now that it’s done, I’ll be back more regularly to entertain the four or […]
Tags: Business Incubation · Grants
Breaking Down
December 3rd, 2006 ·
Our washer and dryer recently broke, necessitating replacement. For most people, this wouldn’t be a big deal - they’d go out, buy what they needed or wanted and be done with it. However, the entry to our basement is narrower than most - instead of a 32″ opening, we have 25.5″. With 4 folks here, […]
Tags: Lessons
Easing Down the Road
December 1st, 2006 ·
I’ve previously written about the Road Home program, a $7.5-billion housing program established by Congress this year. Prior to the elections, just 22 people had received access to funds to begin rebuilding. Today’s NYT has an update on the program:
In a sign of painstaking progress for Louisiana’s biggest rebuilding program, the state has sent letters […]
Tags: Gulf Recovery