Writing to say I won’t be writing this weekend. I’ve got my head buried in putting together a proposal for what I think Etsy can be in 3-5 years. It’s incredibly fun stuff, and I’m hoping I can get the rest of the company as excited about it as I am. In the mean time, you can follow me on Twitter (as usual) or on Google Reader (as usual). Also, I’m almost done with Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody – it’s incredible; I definitely recommend it.

Hi everyone,

Bre Pettis has invited me to present at the next Ignite NYC event. You can read the NYTimes writeup here. For Seattle folks, this is basically a clone of the Ignite Seattle event, which Bre can pull off in good conscience since he was one of the founders of Ignite Seattle.

So I need to give a presentation about something. The presentation format is 20 slides in 5 minutes, with slides automatically changing every 15 seconds.

Please post a comment with your suggestion! I’m considering talking about the importance of long tail websites having sharing tools like the ones found in GReader and Tumblr and The Hype Machine, combined with platforms that allow clumping (aggregation) to happen like Meetup or Amazon Tag Communities. But maybe that’s old news? Or boring?

Thanks!
Dave

p.s. I almost used this photo instead of the one above.

Tags: ignite, presentation

I haven’t blogged since the day Lisa came home from Italy. I think it’s because I’ve structured my life to be dichotomous – there are work hours (9 – 7), and then there are non-work hours. So when Lisa was in Italy, I was spending my non-work hours living my “online life” – blogging, reading blogs, sharing posts, keeping up on twitter, reading about friends via Facebook, tracking Etsy using Summize. Now that Lisa is back, I have almost completely replaced those activities with spending time with Lisa, which has been wonderful. I get home from work and dive right into the life we have together.

But it got me thinking – shouldn’t I be able to balance work, life, and online life? How can I fit in my online life without feeling like I’m ignoring the person in my home in favor of a virtual internet community? Just to be upfront, Lisa has been encouraging me to take time and blog and read and do all the other things she knows I like to do. I guess I just have my priorities straight – I like her better than the internet.

So I’m making an effort to come back to my online life, which should make Mark Blumberg happy (a friend of mine from high school who encourages me to blog, not this guy). I’ll fit it in before work or before bed, and we’ll see how it goes. I should probably declare bankruptcy on my Google Reader – it’s been a month since I’ve done more than skim headlines.

OK, time for a real post.