Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 6:59AM If you haven't checked out what's going on at Harvard Blogs, do. This strikes me as a Quite A Big Deal, for reasons like those eloquently expressed by Donna Wentworth. More from Dave Winer.
Monday, February 10, 2003 at 7:10AM Olympia will offer a cordless phone that speaks Bluetooth to other devices for Net access: "The Olympia 2.4 GHz CDP is the first multi-handset, cordless phone to offer simultaneous voice and data access that lets mobile devices - PDAs, laptops and mobile phones - connect wirelessly at broadband speeds." [via EE Times]
The Sony Ericsson P800 ships in the U.S. just in time for Valentine's Day. [via c | net]
Monday, February 10, 2003 at 7:08AM Kevin Mitnick on The Screen Savers, surfing the Web for the first time since his sentence: "I'd really like to check out online banking!"
Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 7:14PM People who live in conch houses shouldn't throw cones.
In other news, Hermione Granger still has her wand, and space yet remains in Estonian Traveling Stitches at Stitches West ("Armhole Success," of course, is full at this late date).
Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 12:38PM 
There's much to think about in The Support Economy, with which I'm spending some beach time this afternoon (it's February in Southern California, after all). The book's wealth of insights and analyses encourage, if nothing else, a critical reassessment of business practices you might take for granted both in your personal and professional life. With attention to things like voice,
With the expression of voice one names the world, turning otherwise chaotic experience into something that can be known and understood. In this way the exercise of voice is a way of creating meaning and imbuing experience with a sense of purpose and choice.and identity,
One of the most important ongoing organized processes in modern life is the establishment and maintenance of identity. As sociologist Peter Burke observes, it involves behaviors, thoughts and feelings in a "continuously operating, self-adjusting feedback loop."the authors analyze economic realities that businesses ignore at their peril. The underlying messages call to mind another author's observations: "The audience is listening -- for a heartbeat." And their hearing can tell the real thing from the recording: "[F]orget faux-hip; when suits get cute, everybody reaches for the barf bag."
