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Yahoo! may be acquiring Tumblr.

I saw on the news that two friends from my RISD days were at the Boston marathon. One as a spectator, one as a participant. Thankfully, both are OK.

My favorite thing about watching Pink Floyd’s The Wall is that I find myself both riveted by, and completely and utterly embarrassed for everyone involved with making it.

It probably should’t come as a huge surprise, but the mighty Google is shutting down Reader, its RSS service, on July 1st. R.I.P.

If you’re one of the people who post those screeds on Facebook DEMANDING I change my privacy settings to THIS and THAT because you don’t want your dinner photos seen by others, please unfriend me now and get it over with.

iSuppli claims e-readers are doomed, because sales are down from last year, and one of the glories of the free market is that there’s no room for niche products.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

John Carter is no match for Evil Dead in terms of narrative.

One big thing about growing older is how your perspective changes, how things that seemed to really matter no longer do. This is perfectly normal.

No-one can deny that the summer of 2012 has been pretty awful, but it’s picked up slightly here at the very end – not quite an Indian summer, but certainly better than could be expected.

Most of us old warhorses who have been around the Internet a while (back when we had to use dial-up modems, barefoot in winter etc.) probably have at least a passing relationship with Flickr.

There’s a flurry of activity around Facebook these days. They just bought Instagram for a cool billion, went public (its stock tanking) and is rumored to be sniffing around Opera Software.