The Curious Engineer

Ben Casnocha

2004

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2004 130

December 2004

  1. Looking back at 2004 – my accomplishments, disappointments, strengths, weaknesses
  2. Some Good New Year's Reading
  3. Friends of Ben: Greg Prow
  4. A Lot of Laughing This Christmas
  5. Socrates Cafe and Socratic Citizenship
  6. College Commiserations
  7. I Survived – A Winter Break of Books
  8. Keeping the Faith in My Doubt
  9. The Long Tail
  10. The Business Off-Site, The Sports Team Dinner
  11. Integrity in Business and in School
  12. IT Directors: The Gap Btwn Adults and Kids on Technology
  13. Entrepreneurial Synonyms for "Make Progress"
  14. What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated?
  15. Leadership: Twelve Nervous, Sweaty Teammates. Obnoxious Fans. Two minutes.
  16. Abstinence Programs Mislead Teens, Report Says

November 2004

  1. Swiss Exchange Student Comes and Goes
  2. Belt Out Those Christmas Carols
  3. A Book a Day This Long Weekend
  4. Re-Defining the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle
  5. I Believe In Tomorrow
  6. Study Skills My Ass
  7. National Center for Women and Info Tech
  8. Friends of Ben: Michael Simmons
  9. Basketball Season: Real-World Application of Business-Sports Analogies
  10. The Recovering Secularist
  11. Do blogs change opinions? Dan Gillmor: No
  12. A Saturday at Stanford – BloggerCon and AC2004
  13. Design touch-ups on blog
  14. A rant about high school

October 2004

  1. Measuring the Micro-Conversations in Blogs, and How Do People Change Opinions?
  2. Emerging Neurosociety and Immortality
  3. Gone Fishin'
  4. Accelerating Change Essay
  5. End of Faith: Religion and Reason
  6. It's good to be "Ben"
  7. Good October Reading
  8. Zurich Exchange Program: I'm In (and have a sister-blog)
  9. First Who, Then What
  10. Friends of Ben: Greg Lahann
  11. Pogue Asks About Blackberry, and Google SMS
  12. Shit Happens (continued)
  13. Morals, Values, Ethics, Honor
  14. Great Sports Illustrated Issue/Article/Signs of the Apocalypse
  15. Ah, The High School Social Life
  16. Books: We the Media and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

September 2004

  1. The Fit and the Dead
  2. The Peculiar Instituation – Terrific Gay Marriage Article
  3. Draft Card vs. Voting Registration…And Registering Voters
  4. Company Foundation Versus Employee Choice…And VC Guidance on Philanthropy
  5. Nice Newsweek – Personal Essay and Mind/Body
  6. Friends of Ben: Carol Rutlen
  7. Do you have a lot of common sense?
  8. Teens Swarm Starbucks
  9. New Series: Friends of Ben
  10. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
  11. Extreme Democracy and More at Future Salon
  12. The Most Creative Uses Of That Four Letter Word
  13. Am I Going to Suffer From Info Overload? Slate Added to Aggregator
  14. Siebel, CRM, Looking Forward
  15. Focusing on One Thing at a Time – City Govts Do Not
  16. Weblogs Murdering the Soul of America's Youth
  17. First Try at Picture in Blog
  18. Everyone Can Find Smart People…Interesting People, Now That's Another Thing
  19. New Trend in Spending
  20. The Age of the Essay
  21. What Makes a Good Mentor
  22. Why Feel a Need to Be a Blog Missionary?
  23. Rafting on the American River
  24. The Endless Summer – Overscheduled Kids
  25. Suddenly, all at once, others blog INdTV…
  26. We're all sitting in a lab, posting

August 2004

  1. Ethics of the Link Conversation Continues
  2. Duplicative PR That Makes Reader Irritated, Buzz Management
  3. Death of the Casual Look
  4. Need to Convince a Blog Skeptic
  5. The Social Enterprise and Charity with "Style"
  6. Brain Waves blog
  7. A new life begins for the next nine months
  8. Doc Searls Comment on My Post Yesterday
  9. INdTV Web Site Launches – TV Network For Young People, By Young People
  10. Linking to Articles That Toot Your Own Horn
  11. Terrific Articles in the NYTimes Magazine Today
  12. Nunberg on "Like, Wow!"
  13. Shit Happens
  14. Where Blatant Rudeness is Fully Accepted: Follow Up
  15. How to Kill Your Children – Manifesto
  16. Online Book Groups and Blogs
  17. Spectrum as a Public Good
  18. What I'll Be Studying/Working on First Semester Junior Year
  19. New Report: Young Voters and the Web, Lot of Work to Do
  20. The Olympic Sports I Will Watch: Only the Weird
  21. Idea: AIM Plug-in to Blogging Tool
  22. Meetings in the NYC
  23. Hidden Culture of Aggression in Teenage Girls
  24. Frugality in a Start-Up
  25. Arrive in New Jersey; Anthrax Scare Next Door
  26. My trips to rural California
  27. Hilarious Account of How Being American Shapes Us
  28. Reading as Life's Grand Second Chance

July 2004

  1. SeatGuru – Airplane seat analysis
  2. Gardner on Self-Renewal
  3. Teens Take Over Convention…and Other Amazing Young People
  4. Day 1, Month 2 on the Blogesphere
  5. Writing Standard in Valley at Low Level
  6. Software-as-Service Brainstorming at salesforce.com
  7. Agile Summit at PARC
  8. Book: Public Intellectuals by Posner
  9. You Are What You Read…Also Blogging Books
  10. Where Blatant Rudeness Is Fully Accepted
  11. Citing 600,000 Google Results in Senate Argument
  12. Yeh on Young Entrepreneurs and My Two Cents
  13. Credibility in Journalism Continued…WSJ and NYTimes
  14. Civic Engagement, Community, Reading, and Intellectualism
  15. How to Pass as a 30-Something When You're Really Not
  16. Cities, Not Companies, Must Run Hotspots
  17. Integrated Philanthropy in Startups: Few and Far Between
  18. I'm live! Welcome, world.
  19. Issues Around Email, Part One: Busy People Letting the World Know They're Busy
  20. Opt Out of College Admissions Mania
  21. Shattered Glass and Credibility in Journalism
  22. How to Cut Costs

June 2004

  1. Comcate, Silicon Valley, and Whatever at the University Club
  2. Political Polarization and the Information Age
  3. Summer Jobs for Teens
  4. "Walk week" in the Capitol
  5. Book Review: Softwar, An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
  6. Article: Books Make You a Boring Person
  7. Why I Read The Paper In Print
  8. The First Post

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