Michael Boyle — Page 372

It’s a rare thing,

June 4, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I think, to have the opportunity to see friends captured both recently and 15 years earlier! High potential for hilarity and general (friendly) mocking, I think. It seems that I’m going to have that opportunity on June 20 when Who’s Dancin’ Now? airs on PBS, featuring a friend and former colleague who, well, we like to lovingly mock anyhow.

With a tiny

May 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

flash memory drive and one of those new switchblade style car keys, you can finally make something in your life look very 21st C.

Scroll down

May 31, 2001 by Michael Boyle

to the May 29th entry over at Ed’s site, Blork Blog to read a very typical story about life here in Montreal. Even odder, Ed and I are very good friends now but in fact we first “met” online. We were both “founding” hosts at Cafe Utne. When he introduced himself in the private Hosts forum, I replied by saying, “I bet you $10 we have friends in common!” And of course we did, and our circles finally overlapped a couple of weeks later. But the overlap in the story on his site – that’s much deeper, and international to boot. Cool.

There’s a post

May 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I want to write, except that writing it will draw attention to something that doesn’t need attention drawn to it, and is so impeccably beautiful, but also terribly sad and most certainly true, that I feel that making the link will trivialize it. Which is a complicated way of saying that sometimes, even today, I can be deeply moved by something I read on the web.

I came across

May 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Jon Udell’s Telling A Story – The Weblog as a Project-Management Tool through calebos.org and CamWorld in the past couple of days, and as was the case with both of them, I found the article very compelling. I’ve frankly had enough of talking and thinking about grand schemes of leveraging heavy tech in the service of getting things done. It’s far preferable, to me, to bring things to the basic level: email and a simple website. Much more than that is overkill, and mitigates against adoption of whatever tool is under consideration – which makes it (whatever “it” might be) a no-go. As the article says so clearly, the tools are secondary, and I will add, boring. It’s the work, and more importantly the people doing the work, that are important. And the quickest, easiest possible way to help that happen is the best way to try. That’s the hidden power of weblogs for personal publishing and in this context, I think.