Amyloo

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

• Random notes on my first three hours with the iPad

April

• 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

2009

December

• Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

• When the real world fails you, there’s always fantasy

• Weekly presidential address pre-buttal from September

November

• Sarah as Geraldine: The devil made me buy that designer suit

• Throwing in with the cultural nemesis

October

• You know you should listen to Leo, right?

September

• Twitter search: ephemera for ordinary users so it can be something more for business intelligence?

July

• Sarah Palin is Lina Lamont

June

• Thanks, Daddy

• Further adventures in the land of let’s pretend

May

• Fear of special interests

• Great marriage: public interest blogs and mainstream news

April

• David Simon on everything

• Monetization jingle—and an audio alternative to news about the media

• CrunchPad actually could be more enterprise-y than advertised

• Doodle

• Twitter feedback: it’s not just opt-in, it’s volunteer

• Microsoft is going all free and live and stuff

March

• The right climate for Dickens

• Little pieces of my heart

• Rolling Stone: read me a story

• 288-hour news cycle

• Prewriting history

• TWIT chat: define ‘offensive’

• Businesspeople are always deliriously happy in stock photos

February

• Aging white suburban woman reflexively lapses into language patterns of the Baltimore underclass

• The ‘oh god’ echo

• Public discourse about the economy: It’s a blusterfuck

• Wall Street: back up those trucks to our loading docks, please

January

• ‘I’m not really a plates kind of guy’

• Twitter search is a great tool for gauging persistence of interest

• Mr. President, a simple idea: call up the investment bankers once in a while

• New day

• We defeated suspicion and narrowmindeness, for now

• Don’t like what you hear? Make up your own truth.

2008

December

• Twitter search spam is getting to be a problem

November

• Change coming into focus

• Furor over Motrin and babywearing: a lifestyle war?

• Online congressional and other public hearings?

• Winding up a story

• Now the juicy stuff can come out