http://jasonalba.com Just another JASONAlba weblog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:47:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I participate as much as I can in the My LinkedIn Power Forum, and have for about two years.  It's been very cool to see how things change and evolve there. Rarely have I seen something as cool as this.  It is an e-mail (see below) where a member does a ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/07/03/elist-coolness/ My son decided he likes to eat grasshoppers.  Raw.  He goes out to our back yard, finds a grasshopper, and plops it in his mouth.  No lie, the kid eats the entire thing. Must have got that from his mom's side of the family. So, here's why I love  Twitter.  Because I ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/07/02/another-reason-i-love-twitter-eating-grasshoppers-raw/ Check this out ... | View | Upload your own http://jasonalba.com/2008/06/02/my-first-slideshare-i-just-got-fired/ Yesterday I had a pretty rough day. More on that next week on my JibberJobber blog. To end the day, though, I thought I'd carve out some time and put together a powerpoint to try slideshare.net. I've been wanting to do it for a while, but really wish I ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/05/31/why-i-stopped-doing-creative-stuff/ Last night my wife was putting the the 4 and 7 year olds to bed. In her own words: I just finished putting a scared Taylor to bed. When the kids are scared, I say a special prayer of comfort and love. William is in the top bunk ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/05/28/william-wants-to-be-a-canadian/ I’m presenting at the newcommforum.com conference and it seems that over 60% of the audience is twittering (tweeting) DURING the presentations. In fact, perhaps the conversation on Twitter during the presentation is more interesting than the actual presentation?? Talk about disruptive, especially as a presenter. Anyway, here are some links to ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/04/23/twitter-tools-at-a-conference/ Conversation this morning with my 7yo son: William: Dad, yesterday Taylor (4yo girl) said all of the cusswords. Me: Oh yeah, did mom hear? William: yeah. And she didn't even get in trouble. Me: What did she say? William: She said stupid dumb your not the boss of me and all the other cuss ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/03/27/taylor-said-all-of-the-cusswords/ One of my goals this year was to have a full article dedicated to me in The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.  This is because I was told by someone that that is where JibberJobber would get credibility - not through any articles I wrote on my ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/03/25/im-in-the-us-news-world-report/ I recently posted on the LI blog about hitting almost 2,000... in fact, it was at 2,058. You can see the braggy post here. ... now, we just need to break 1,000! http://jasonalba.com/2008/03/24/linkedin-book-breaks-2000/ When I first login I have the IM client set to automatically login, and I get the MSN news, gossip and all that stuff open in it's own window. I always click over to "News" to see what's going on. But this one caught my eye: I love it. It's ... http://jasonalba.com/2008/03/24/msn-does-it-again/