Results tagged “merlinmann”

• The Sound of Young America Live: Live public radio featuring Jesse Thorn, Morgan Murphy, Merlin Mann, Danny Hoch, and Bucky Sinister perform le stand-up hot. Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) provides the music. It's indie rock and comedy all rolled into one. Ta-da! Oh, and it's part of SF Sketchfest, so you know it's good. Show starts at 8 p.m. at the Eureka Theatre; $10.
• BiFriendly Social: A bisexual coffee klatch for men and women who lean on both sides of the fence. (No, not for you alterafag Manhunter subscribers who claim bisexuality only in effort to entice seemingly straight men, but for authentic bi guys. Wherever they may be.) No set topic, just an old-fashion chat with strangers all juiced up on caffeine. Or whatever. Anyway, it goes from 7:30 p.m.- 10 p.m. at Church Street Cafe (formerly Muddy Waters); free.
• Tonight's Macworld Expo Afterparties: Leave the goatees in the bathroom sink. Please.

Today we visit with an actual professional in the world of blogging, Eric Lin, who writes for Phone Scoop, the place to go for the latest and greatest news in the world of cell phones. Eric managed to carve a nice niche for himself with his mobile phone fetish when other techies we're all about PDAs, which might have helped him survive the dot-bomb in one piece.

Last time we saw Merlin Mann in the flesh, he was graciously stealing us a beer at the Google party we crashed together after his Web 1.0 party. The first time we saw Merlin Mann was drinking a free beer at a Creative Commons party at the Swedish American Hall. In other words, wherever there's beer and bloggers, you'll find Merlin talking out his ass and taking names.

So, of course, we were busy yukking it up with funnyman Merlin Mann last night at the Web 1.0 confab. Silly us, making fun of the 'monetizing,' 'paradigm shifting,' 'game changing' intellects who took a bunch of great ideas from engineers and developers and turned them into marketing juggernauts, with or without a business plan. Let's just say that VRML, FrontPage, Flash, the <blink> tag, dual ISDN and other ante-dot-bomb technologies were rightly pilloried to a delighted audience. And then we crashed the Google party at the Argent Hotel (translation from French to English: "Money place to stay for a night.")

To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow this all a little out of proportion, it will probably be ignored. Civil liberties in our country seem to be dying a death by inches, and what worries us more than simply having a rule banning photography on Muni station platforms is that it is being enforced without having been publicly reviewed or even codified in a legal document. Secret laws selectively enforced is not our idea of Democracy.

SFist was so proud when we broke it to good friend Susan Mernit that she had scored a Bloggie nod in the "Best-kept Secret Weblog" category. Hers is the smartest blog you're probably not reading. When she's not in New York working with her consulting group 5ive (no, not Merlin Mann's hilarious site of lists -- we'll get to him later) to get somebody's business into shape, she's toodling around the South Bay hobnobbing with digerati superstars. Who says bi-coastal has to mean a place in LA?