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November 26, 2007
My New Kindle
Filed under: Stuff I Like
Just got my new Kindle today from Amazon. I have been wanting something like this for quite sometime so when I heard the announcement last week I jumped on it right away. I know I'm a sucker for the early adopter thing (yes, I got an iPhone on day one), but it's easy for me to justify when the world I live and breath is communications and marketing. So there.
I have not used my Kindle enough to give any sort of review, but I'm anxious to play with it this week. The packaging is pretty cool--definitely Apple-esque in Amazon's approach. And while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ain't no Steve Jobs, I am curious to see if Kindle does to the book industry what the iPod did to the music industry. The disruption may be a little more far-fetched, but in the brief moments I've spent with Kindle so far, this thing is pretty amazing. It seems to be the perfect companion for reading nuts like myself.
I love that the screen doesn't look or feel like a laptop. It's a whole new technology that uses digital ink to create pages on the fly. It is really comfortable to read.
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November 17, 2007
Considering Adoption
Filed under: Life's Journey
Jamaica and I have talked about adoption for the last several years and more recently it has been a hot topic for us. Seems like we can't escape it.
- Our friends Brian and Jenny adopted a child from Guatemala this past year.
- Our friends Kevin and Abby are adopting a child from Ethiopia next year. (See inset banner image.)
- I was a groomsmen in a wedding last weekend and two of the groomsmen I stood with had adopted children.
- One of the homeless people we hang with each week shared her adoption journey with us last month.
- Today is also National Adoption Day.
Hmmm....
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November 11, 2007
Self-Branding With Metafriends
Filed under: Rant
"This is hard to say to a friend, but our relationship is starting to take up too much of my time. It's weird that I know more about you than I do about actual friends I hang out with in person--whom I propose we distinguish by calling 'non-metafriends.' In fact, I know more about you than I know about myself. I have no idea what my favorite movie or song or TV show is."
Joel Stein's back page essay from the October 15 Time magazine is hilarious. Entitled "You Are Not My Friend," I resonate with Stein's social networking rants. He thinks sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter "aren't about connecting and reconnecting. They're a platform for self-branding."
"...you're a bit aggressive in our friendship. Would a non-metafriend call me up and say, 'Hey! Guess what? I have a bunch of new pictures of me'? Or tell me he'd colored in a map of all the places he'd ever been?"
I signed up to LinkedIn a year ago and just recently to Facebook. I joined mostly because of the email barrage of invitations. I don't spend time on any of these sites and I feel kind of silly that I even set them up.
"We've gone 40 years back, to sales tactics predating irony, self-deprecation and actual modesty. We are, as a social network, all so awesome that we will soon not be able to type the number 1, because we will have worn out the exclamation point that shares its key."
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