Gavin’s Digital Diner

The grass is always greener. We all wish we were something we’re not. I wish I were younger, perhaps better looking and less of a romantic, too. Mail room clerks dream of being CEO’s and CEO’s dream of working in the mail room. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”*
I often hear that [...]

Over on the NTEN blog, there’s been a discussion of charitable giving — posing the question: “Does online engagement lead to more money?” A simple question, but further down in the discussion there was an implication that online engagement generated not just “more money” for the individual organization but “more in general” — actually increasing [...]

The Gilbert Center turns ten this year — that’s a hundred in Internet years. That’s something to be proud of — few things last a hundred years, especially in turbulent times.

Michael Gilbert and the Gilbert Center graciously host this blog. I think of Michael as my somewhat eccentric publisher — and true to publisher form [...]

I’m somebody’s perfect demographic. No doubt about it. I like gadgets. My house is wired top to bottom with CAT5, and I’ve somewhere between four and eight computers, servers, PCs, various other weird devices, along with all sorts of digital appliances in various stages of construction or deconstruction. That’s not counting the two phone systems [...]

The NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) has come and gone. This year’s was in D.C. As was true for the two previous NTC’s, there were surprises all around for me; all around. If you work bending technology to serve the greater good, and you missed it; well, shame, shame, shame. For me, as usual, I [...]

While there are lots of consumer-level products to manage digital images, photographs and the like, institutional options, it seems, are not that plentiful. Moreover, those options that do exist tend to cost a pretty penny. I don’t mean Adobe “Album” and Picassa. They’re wonderful products; I use Picassa myself. It’s great for an individual, but [...]

I was settling in to my seat on the 767-400; tucking away all the detritus that one travels with in today’s world – squirreling away my cheap paperback, iPod, and headphones in the seatback in front of me, throwing the blanket on the floor, and stuffing the pillow between me and the armrest. I travel [...]

[Here's the text of a message about the impending DST change I posted on the Riders-Tech list a few weeks ago. Several people had asked me about it, and I figured it made more sense to post this than keep sending it out as email.]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my [...]

[Here's my follow up message on the DST change from around Valentine's Day (and nobody sent me flowers, even!)]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my old Typepad Blog – so if you're experiencing a vague sense of déjà vu… this would be the reason]

 Dear friends:

It was a couple of weeks ago.  [...]

Call me irascible. When RSS started showing up on this or that, I wasn’t all that thrilled. I was skeptical. Moreover, it reminded of PointCast,” circa 1995. With some shame [looking at my feet and blushing], I admit that I liked PointCast.
I say that with one caveat: PointCast, you see, was designed, inherently, for the [...]