Category: Doing

  • The Philadelphia Phillies: End of An Era

    The last two sea­sons have been tough in Philadel­phia. After a glo­ri­ous run as one of the best team’s in base­ball, the Phillies crashed back to Earth. Char­lie Manuel, a beloved fig­ure for any­one who’s fol­lowed the Phils, was tossed aside. Roy Hal­la­day, a play­er who more than any­one made Philadel­phia a des­ti­na­tion for free…

  • No Goal But Mileage

    It’s been a while since I called myself a run­ner. After run­ning con­sec­u­tive marathons in ’08 and ’09, I took a long hia­tus. Turns out being awake all hours with a sleep­less infant isn’t con­ducive to dis­tance run­ning. I tried com­ing back in clas­sic couch-to-marathon style last year, only to injure myself about halfway through…

  • What’s the Future of Blogging?

    Two inter­est­ing things about blog­ging lately: First from Mar­co Arment Writ­ers: You don’t need Medi­um. You can host your own blog on your own domain with lots of oth­er tools and hosts. Be your own “platform”. — Mar­co Arment (@marcoarment) July 31, 2013 Then from Robert Scoble on why he’s using G+ and Face­book for blog­ging.…

  • The Principled Purge

    If you haven’t already seen it, Ian Rogers’ blog post on prun­ing Twit­ter is quite good. He fol­lowed me back when I wrote about dig­i­tal music; I don’t write about that any­more, ergo he unfol­lowed me. It makes all the sense in the world. Why is it so hard? I wrote Unfol­low­ing Is Hard back in…

  • Why I’m Switching to Android

    I wrote about renew­ing my iPhone vows about a month ago. I’m chang­ing my mind. Why? A com­bi­na­tion of curios­i­ty and convenience. I’m not going to dis­count the num­ber of posts from influ­encers like Matthew Ingram, Guy Kawasa­ki and Robert Scoble, but the tip­ping point was real­ly friends who’ve adopt­ed Android with their lat­est phones.…