Amyloo

2013

May

• Embeddable You

• Josh Bell, Embraceable You audio

February

• Thwarted: Has NPR discontinued audio embed? Is it another clue that blogging really is dying?

January

• A sad effect of Twitter use

• Joe Scarborough’s term for the anti-government faction of the pro-gun ‘community’

• That was cute

• Alex Jones hews to the success formula of the conservative entertainment complex

• Journalists, do you have the courage to conduct completely honest interviews with gun advocates?

2012

October

• Anti-Obama forces made the 8 percent mark as important as it is

September

• Grassroots news and the Ron Paul movement

August

• ‘You’ll never amount to anything’

June

• Failure of institutions meme is picking up steam

• Burying a wet iPhone in rice totally works!

May

• Old broadcast media and the internet are not fully converged—in our heads

April

• The house is a mess

March

• Harry Potter ebook store opens—and the books are straight epub

• Helter skelter

• Civilian slaughter in Afghanistan: Is the media asking the wrong question?

• Neat way to configure a standard Twitter widget

• More Game Change reviews

• Funny Time blog comment exchange between Palinbot and writer of the post

• Matt Taibbi explains the mortgage crisis in five minutes

• Long interview with Game Change book authors, the media blitz is on, HBO and the net

• Embrace the fedora!

February

• The establishment always wins

• Funny blatant pimping for “likes”

• Quick look at Votizen

• Two ideas for Current TV

• ‘That’s twisted,’ I yelled at myself, scornfully. ‘Whatever made you even think of that?’

• It’s about point of view—don’t tell me I’m nothing but an eyeball to you

• Homage to three of my favorite bloggers (web wonkish)

• Current.tv reaching out to NPR audience

• Yup, TechPresident is still publishing

• Organizing on Facebook

• Instant action on Change.org petition

• Jaw-dropping ignorance

• Online MSNBC: Rachel blogger, head-desk, #uppers, Melissa H-P

• Maine county’s vote report filtered as spam

• Palin’s star power is the oddest thing ever

• Obama campaign debuts Truth Team websites

• Decided to stop resisting the urge to blog

2011

June

• GOP jumps on the peace train. (Ooh waah eee ah ooo ah)

• Those ominous Frontline scores

May

• How important is Twitter? Why am I glad David Simon doesn’t indulge?

• HBO Go. I miss DVD commentaries but not DVDs. More innovation needed in web/TV convergence.

April

• The new Reformation

March

• A shy person’s sneaky way to do a citizen’s action

• Antidote to the news—or to TED: real enlightenment through RSA animations

• Testing Facebook comments

February

• I called Comcast about getting Current TV

• No-words alpha sort (but you do have to understand English)

January

• Brains are exploding

• Enhanced SOTU may distract me in a more pleasing way

2010

December

• If Fringe is cancelled I still want my ending

November

• No such thing as a Palin Democrat

• Thought you might need a Gordie Howe break

• Bi-popular disorder: Playing both poles of the Palin magnet

October

• The new PBS iPad app would be even better if it were five different PBS iPad apps

• Only a matter of time until the crazies remind us Keynes was gay

• Stranger than fiction

• Eighteen Acres: A new Primary Colors

• What I wish I could hear today on Meet the Press or This Week

• Armor All! (And the iPad performed well on a trip)

• Is Palin eager for the end times? Even if she’s not, I’m worried.

• Survey finds Americans across the political spectrum think wealth distribution is too unequal

• Tapper’s new show needs a nice cool frame around it

• A market-based poll I can trust: the Tea Party is pretty much about a conniption over Obama

September

• Change is gonna come

• We really really like Elizabeth Warren

• President’s weekly address for 9/11

• Candy Crowley rushed to misjudgement

August

• She’s inspired

• Obama vacation: Give the guy a break already

July

• Liberals would not have a problem with Obama reaching out to small business

• Idea for somebody with ambition: Comp book look for iPad cover

• The smart play for Obama: go all out for small business and see where the debate leads

• Happy Birthday, Mom

• Happy 300th, Palatine descendants

• The Pillars of the Earth: A guilty pleasure

June

• Despair at the craft store

• Aftermarket iPad accessory for lying around: a bean bag pillow I had lying around

May

• Figures: Bernie Sanders agrees

• I think I understand the president

• Contextual ads ooze toward the sleaziest content on your site

• One per tweet

• Salesforce.com and this whole Flash vs Apple thing

• It was a creed written into the founding documents?

• Finally Fringe is getting on with the story

April

• Random notes on my first three hours with the iPad

• Echo from France: Sound familiar?

• Yeah, I fell off the wagon

• Cuter euphemism for a marathon session in Congress

• Treme: Can’t wait

March

• No more junior high school partisan cattiness (at least I’ll try; how about you?)

• I knew it was coming

February

• New fightin’ words that might not work

• My Capital Rewards

January

• Common sense is in the air, everywhere

• ‘Common sense’ catch phrase is catching: #TCOT crowd adores saying it

• A framing proposal: appropriate the term ‘common sense’ for the left