The trouble with time is that there’s just not enough of it. I would work on a time generation device except that, well… I just don’t have time.

If We’re Drinking Martinis, Surely We’re Not That Geeky. Right?
Particularly in Seattle, all kinds of cool stuff is always going on. Case in point? Thingamajiggr. There’s no “e” so you know it’s all shiny and web 2.0 and stuff. I understand that there will be also martinis in addition to the shiny, so I’m hoping to find some of this elusive time I keep hearing about to stop by.

Another cool event in Seattle that I sadly don’t have time for is Localization World next Tuesday through Thursday. Jeff Howe from Wired is giving a keynote on crowdsourcing translations — engaging communities to translate websites and software apps. Google does this, of course with its translation console and it would be interesting to see how well companies are doing with this — how they’re motivating volunteers and how accurate the results are.

Get Mad Social Media Skilz! Now with Shiny Discount!
I can’t go to that because I’m going to try to make SMX Social Media — which, of course, also will be a bit about crowdsourcing. Particularly if you’re in NY, you should definitely try to stop by to check it out as well as the Best of the Web Internet charity party on Monday night. Speaking of shiny, use code SMX10offSM to register for SMX Social Media to get 10% off. I’m particularly looking forward to the keynote with Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us and Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon. I so don’t get StumbleUpon but it sure can drive visitors to a site. Maybe I can learn more about the magical mysteriousness that is social media traffic.

See Me Be Cranky!
I did find time to be cranky with John Dvorak yesterday. You should definitely check out CrankyGeeks if you want to know how I feel about cars made for women (finally our prayers have been answered and we women no longer have to worry our pretty little heads about complicated things like reverse and what that D means on the gear panel!) and learn how all the world needs to do is wrap itself in glossy paper to eliminate fire and terrorism.

I always have time to rant about glossy paper.

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