Typepad gets new boss, says SAY
Introducing Jeff Reine, Our New GM of TypePad
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Today we are pleased to announce the latest addition to the SAY Media team: Jeff Reine, General Manager of TypePad.
As GM of TypePad, Jeff is responsible for guiding the business and product strategy of the TypePad platform. His first priorities include bringing to market the next generation of the TypePad application and furthering investment in its fundamental capabilities to optimize the user experience of the valued TypePad community.
Rather glad to hear this. I was getting a touch skittish about the future of Typepad, after the once-busy Everything Typepad blog went quiet last November…
Mum unplugs teens for 6 months. Strangely, isn't murdered...
But she encourages families to unplug periodically. "One way to do it is just to have that one screen-free day a week. Not as a punishment — not by saying, 'I've had enough!' — but by instituting it as a special thing," she said. "There isn't a kid on the planet who wouldn't really rather be playing a board game than sitting at the computer."
via news.yahoo.com
Great quote. Sadly, it's almost certainly complete nonsense...
Ruins of Exeter
I'm back in scanning mode, this time working through some negatives from 2000. These are from the very first weekend away I took with Lorna, and I was on the verge of discarding them as a bit rubbish, when I thought that they might look quite good in black & white. And they do, don't they?
This catches the mood of the weekend a bit better, though:
I can't believe it was over a decade ago…