Hotel Madness

Hotel madness
Originally uploaded by massless

A blurry photo of me in the Hotel Vitale this weekend. We stayed there the whole time so we wouldn't miss a moment of Ev and Sara's awesome wedding. It was totally worth it!

Cool New Job Opening at Dogster

Jobs at Dogster Inc.: "Woof! Meow! Do you really care about online community? Do you really care about dogs, cats and people? Do you want to work somewhere that is truly special? Dogster.com and Catster.com are on the prowl for a new Community Manager to oversee the community experience on two of the most vibrant passion-centric sites on the internet.

The ideal candidate will have oodles of experience overseeing online community activities. You'll know how to keep the peace like Switzerland, nullify grumps and be a silver-tongued communicator (online, on-phone and in-person). You'll know what it means to work at a fast-paced, rapidly-growing profitable start-up. And yes, having a profound love of dogs and cats would be very helpful. Your reward will be watching your happy, thriving community grow while members adorn you with praise for nurturing an environment that is so meaningful to so many."

Impressively Dorky

Jason Goldman learned about this particularly dorky Google onebox result on Twitter and told us. We're having a bit of a laugh this Friday afternoon. Also? There's more where that came from.

Big Twitter News

We just got back from NYC and we brought some big news with us. Twitter Blog: Taking a bite out of the big apple. Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures explains more.

New York City for a Few Days

NYC Subway
Originally uploaded by bizstone

I woke up to a rockin' earthquate in Berkeley this morning just before 5am and then packed and headed to NYC. We've got some meetings here and then it's back west. It's been a while since I've been on the NYC subway. Not a lot has changed.

Amazon Text Stats

There are text statistics available for Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs. For example, if you buy the book you'll get 3,965 words per dollar spent and 8,398 words per ounce. My sentences have on average 17.5% words each (44% of books have longer sentences). There are 278, 545 characters in the book—that's about 1,990 Twitter updates worth! This is pretty neat, maybe we should have stats like this on Twitter.

Rock Out with Your Frock Out

For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you | Salon Arts & Entertainment: "The Horntails are named after characters from 'The Goblet of Fire,' and their songs have titles like 'Kill the Basilisk' and 'Which Witch Is Which?' Their first album is called 'Burn Voldemort's Butt.'"

Jason Shellen: Still inside the Internet

Jason Shellen is leaving Google after time well served. He'll still be inside the Internet though. He's not really gone so don't worry.

Congratulations Veronica!

Veronica Belmont's big news: "I’m leaving CNET to work full-time for Mahalo, producing a daily video show." (I learned it from reading Twitter.)

feets

feets
Originally uploaded by bizstone

The camera on my new twitter-issue iPhone is better than old phone's. I think I'll take more photos now.

We Eloped! (Sort of)

The joy of marriage
Originally uploaded by Dunstan Orchard

Livy and I got married at The Stanford Inn in Mendocino, CA this weekend. An idea that started out as an elopement with a couple witnesses turned into a classically beautiful wedding in a garden by the sea because of all the generous and thoughtful efforts of some truly amazing friends. We're just getting back and settled now so I'll tell the story of how it all went down later but wow, what a great weekend and marriage we just had. I'm pretty sure my *wife* (!) liked it too, despite her body language in this photo. Here are some Flickr sets from sem and maile. 71miles has a good description of Mendocino.