Thursday, January 26, 2006

My Four Things

I've been "tagged" by uberBlogger YahooMeister Jeremy Zawodny to share "My four things":

Four jobs I've had in my life:
  1. Short order breakfast cook
  2. Grad Student Researcher, Southern Oregon University
  3. Webmaster/Online Marketing
  4. Travel Internet Publisher Guy

Four movies I can watch over and over:

  1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
  2. Lord of the Rings I
  3. Hero
  4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Four TV shows I love to watch:

  1. Charlie Rose
  2. American Experience
  3. NOVA
  4. Boston Legal

Four places I've been on vacation:

  1. Kilauea
  2. Mount Katahdin, Maine
  3. Chartres
  4. Westminster Abbey

Four of my favorite dishes:

  1. Shrimp Scampi
  2. Steak and Potatoes
  3. Chow Mein
  4. Imitation Tupperware

Four websites I visit daily:

  1. Matt Cutts
  2. John Battelle
  3. Jeremy Zawodny
  4. Google

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. 2506 A.D.
  2. Nanjing, China
  3. Indigo Girls Concert
  4. Half Dome, Yosemite

Four bloggers I am tagging. I'm skeptical they'll play BUT there are always unforeseen consequences to stopping chain-like viral memetic things. If Jeremy Z can share the mundane details that reflect on one's greater world view... so can ... you.

  1. Matt Cutts
  2. Amr Awadallah
  3. Dave Naylor
  4. Rob Spooner

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Brief flickers 'o fame

On Tuesday I thought I was going to get quoted in none other than the Wall Street Journal, but the online story doesn't mention me at all. What am I going to tell my parents NOW!?

They still seem to wonder how I make a living online and I sure could have used the credibility boost from WSJ.

I'd been interviewed about my take on del.icio.us and digg.com and social networking and tagging in general because I'd blogged about how I thought they were cool, and then after using them thought they were overrated. Jessica Vascellaro of WSJ found me on technorati.

But this is some consolation - a few weeks ago I ordered a copy of David Vise's "The Google Story". I was checking out the pictures and there was Matt Cutts talking to a group at SES. Looking closer I could see.... me among the listeners.

Guess I'll just be living in the shadow of fame.

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