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I’ve decided to move this blog over to Posthaven. Who better to “preserve” stuff from an old Posterous blog than the people who originally wrote Posterous in the first place? This is this blog’s 3rd move in the last year. I hope this is the last time I have to do this.

There’s this text box. A text box that begs to be filled with the internal chattering, giving it a sort of physical manifestation. What does the chattering say right now? That it’s bedtime and I should sleep. It also says I want to be heard. About what, exactly? I don’t know. It really doesn’t matter.…

But I really don’t know what I want to write. There was a time in my life where I could write for hours on end. Granted, I edited. A lot. But I could do it. Now I feel like it is a struggle to string words together on a page: real or virtual. Surely, I…

From The Science of Compassion: Why, in a country that consumes 25% of the world’s resources (the U.S.), is there an epidemic of loneliness, depression, and anxiety? Why do so many in the West who have all of their basic needs met still feel impoverished? While some politicians might answer, “It’s the economy, stupid,” Based…

I’ve been a fan of TWiT since Leo Laporte got the idea to start a podcast sometime after the demise of TechTV. Seven years later, it has grown into a podcast network of 20+ shows with a huge studio in downtown Petaluma, CA. Unfortunately, Leo has done some things recently that, quite honestly, are not…

I was at a concert this past week for Vicci Martinez. I have to say, I wasn’t sure what to expect, seeing as I don’t watch shows like The Voice or American Idol, though I had to assume that if she had “won” on The Voice, she was probably pretty good. And she was great!…

From Bring back the 40-hour work week – AlterNet – Salon.com: After WWII, as the GI Bill sent more workers into white-collar jobs, employers at first assumed that the limits that applied to industrial workers probably didn’t apply to knowledge workers. Everybody knew that eight hours a day was pretty much the limit for a…

From Retraction | This American Life: We’ve discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace’sChina correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered the fabrications. I have no doubt that, by American…

Several months ago, I tried an experiment–one that I hosted on Posterous called “Dameon Unplugged.” The idea was simple: make a series of short “tweets” that were basically handwritten notes. GJCAG (referred to below) above now goes by WhatTheBit on Twitter. He was the inspiration for this idea since he was doing something similar at…

I was at the RSA Conference a couple weeks ago working the Check Point booth. I also managed to snag a few photos. Not at RSA, but at the BSides conference next door. This was our booth. There were many like it, but this one was ours. This was the station I was supposedly manning…