# 02 Jun 2013, 08:35AM: Misunderstandings:
Yesterday I was waiting on a subway platform and saw an ad for "The Hangover Part III" (with "The End" at the top), and a movie ad stating "This Is The End". "Wow, they're really saturating the market with ads for that Hangover sequel," I thought. And then I saw they had different writing credits. It turns out these are two separate movies by, for, and about groups of white men.
Also, on our trip to Amsterdam, when Leonard was talking with me about art, I finally figured out that "De Stijl" was the name of an art movement, not just one guy (named Willem De Stijl or something) who was Mondrian's mentor or something.
# (2) 10 Jun 2013, 09:57AM PST: Yes You Should Have Business Cards:
Left-justify your name and web address and email address -- no title necessary -- in a legible font. Get the perforated cardstock and do it on a home printer, or get a local copy shop to make them for like $20 for a hundred cards. Black type on white non-glossy paper is great; that way it's easy for the other person to write on it to remember where they met you and why they want to follow up with you.
Carry them with you. Put a few in your wallet. If you feel silly about it, think of it as an act of hospitality. You're making life easier for people like me.
# 29 Jun 2013, 11:00PM: On the End of Google Reader:
Google Reader will end on July 1st, in just a few days. It looks like many of my friends are switching to the Newsblur service, or running an instance themselves. If you subscribe to this blog in Google Reader, you should save your data and switch to an alternate service.
As you might remember from my 2010 post "Insta-RSS Feeds: A Case Study In Freedom", we've known for some time that Google Reader was not to be trusted:
Whether it's deliberate or negligent, making a webpage without an RSS feed is a way of disempowering readers, and of making it slightly harder to vacuum that data into the market-flattening maw. It's like how certain archives will keep a controversial document in a room and only let people read it in that room, no cameras, no notepaper. Google plays nice with these kinds of restrictions, so site owners can opt out and then Google Reader users won't be able to make or read feeds for those pages. Not an antifeature, per se, but definitely a technical restriction on the user to enforce other people's whims. Scrape 'N' Feed has no such scruples, of course. If you don't want me to know what's on that page, don't put it on the web.
I want you to be able to read my blog. Here's the RSS feed.
# 30 Jun 2013, 10:28AM: No:
"No" is a new Chilean film and if you liked any combination of The War Room/Wag the Dog/Forrest Gump/Goodbye Lenin!/University of Laughs then you should check this out too.
