Well, not really, but I am quoted in this article on straight, single men who own cats. It’s a silly piece, which the author Abby Ellin fully admitted when we talked. And actually, I think I laughed through the entire interview, which I’m sure didn’t make me a good interview subject. Having never, you know, been interviewed about my cats before, it was an interesting experience. I can’t say that I necessarily agree that it’s only now becoming socially acceptable for a straight single man to own a cat (or two).

The concept of aggregation is increasingly important on the Internet, as the sheer number of information resources increases. The average user wants to track more and more things on the Internet; an aggregator quickly becomes necessary as one’s bookmark list grows to infinity. The first aggregators, what I call ‘general purpose’ aggregators, like Bloglines, Google Reader, and Newsgator, are focused on tracking blogs and news feeds, making it easy to subscribe to whatever blogs the user came across.

I recently ordered a “Big Boy” Rocket Lamp from Cool Rockets. Just doing my part to support the lagging economy. Well, it arrived today. It’s every bit as cool as I had hoped. After unboxing it, however, I noticed that someone had written on the side of the box: It’s difficult to see in the picture, but it also looks like someone has taken a pen or other small, sharp object, and stabbed the box many times.

I missed this by a couple of days, but it was 10 years ago when I launched ONElist (now Yahoo Groups). It was a Saturday night, January 24, 1998, and I had just completed three months of coding the site, by working nights and weekends. I had never created a web site before and one of the reasons I started ONElist was because I wanted to learn how to do so.

For those ONElisters and eGroupies (and anyone else who knew Michael) who might see this and haven’t already gotten the Evite, we’re having a reunion this Wednesday, January 16th at Tres Agaves in San Francisco at 7pm, in honor of Mike Klein. Tres Agaves 130 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 650-303-8260 As Rikk says in the Evite, we “know that Mike would have wanted this to be fun, wild, and happy event.