“I wonder if being acquired by Google is the ultimate first-world problem.” –Merlin Mann 1. You are standing on the roof of the house you grew up in. You jump off and fly, soaring aross the neighborhood and up towards the clouds. As you get higher, you realize the streets spell your ex-girlfriend’s phone number. [...]

Ishi started a Twitter account just to catalog all the things her husband Rafael wasn’t doing around the house at any given moment. It wasn’t the most passive-aggressive thing to ever happen on the internet, but on the other hand, there are websites devoted solely to tracking the new and inventive ways we exercise our [...]

Well you certainly checked my stats a lot, which I suppose is a kind of caring. Imagine having to wake up each morning, not knowing who’d be sharing the bed with you. MovableType with those complicated installations that went on forever and ever. Lie back and think of England, I would tell myself. WordPress was [...]

Two teenage girls were engaged in a fierce battle to the death, high atop the Empire State Building. Their names were Lyric and Grace, and both were famous on the internet. As babies, their births had been the first ever announced via Twitter and Facebook, respectively. Now, a decade and a half later, they hated [...]

Merlin wrote, and other friends have mentioned, how strange it is to see all the ways Leslie is still connected to us. In our address books, on Livejournal, on MySpace, Friendster, Vox. I see her on LinkedIn and think about all the people I met through her, all the people I still meet through her. [...]