I had to ask myself what Dave McClure, who says he was raised by a single mom and who has funded more than one woman entrepreneur was thinking when he resorted to a big butt porn image as the only way to make his point about usability and how much people (and their faces, not… Continue Reading

As everyone probably knows already. Dr. George Tiller, A Wichita, Kansas late-stage OB-GYN who performed late-stage abortions when the mother’s life was at risk, was shot and killed this morning at his church. Here’s what his family–his wife, Jeanne, his four children and 10 grandchildren–issued as a statement:“Today we mourn the loss of our husband,… Continue Reading

Courage Campaign Chair Rick Jacobs is interviewed by MSNBC about the demonstrations outside President Obama’s Los Angeles fundraiser on May 27, 2009.

My new post is up at BlogHer: “This June, I reckon, I get my postgraduate degree–in divorce, that is. It was exactly four years ago, you see, that after 20+ years of fiercely monogamous marriage, my husband and I parted ways. I’ve written before about the shock I felt, the determination to make this split… Continue Reading

Going to work to repeal Prop 8.

Hey there, if you liked my little piece on twitter and oversharing in the NYTimes, you might also like this presentation Vivianne Tang and I did last year for a conference called Arse Electronikaon oversharing, twitter and blogging.   Final Arse Talk View more Microsoft Word documents from susanmernit. I blog here about tech, product… Continue Reading

Robert Niles, no search engine slouch himself, took great notes during the KMDC entrepreneurs’ bootcamp session on SEO. Here’s a summary of the tips, with more details right here. The tips in brief– 1) Use Google AdWords’ keyword tool to find the most popular keywords related to your website and your beat. 2) Use key… Continue Reading

Think–Curation by the crowd,in the cloud,  in almost real time. John Borthwicks’s got a typically articulate post about the new overlying stream of news/info/actions that has become the first stop and information filter for so many (think twitter, FB news feed). The big point here is that our tools let us skim interactions off the… Continue Reading

In the initial design of the web reading and writing (editing) were given equal consideration – yet for fifteen years the primary metaphor of the web has been pages and reading. The metaphors we used to circumscribe this possibility set were mostly drawn from books and architecture (pages, browser, sites etc.). Most of these metaphors… Continue Reading

“This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has… Continue Reading