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• Setting up for startup camp. Nice to ne back on the floor. #ITP #
• I just unlocked the "Global Ignite Week 2010" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/cMKe9n #
• I just unlocked the "Warhol" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/dnxs7N #
• I have more Google Wave invites, he says, as if anyone cares. #
• Omg WTF lol kinda week. Not half bad. #

• @kio_pio A politician? in reply to kio_pio #
• @kio_pio Raconteur? in reply to kio_pio #
• Upgraded to Snow Leopard, finally. What a difference! Faster, clearer, and now HD resolution. Wow. Impressed. #
• 8bit version of Dr. Horrible? http://is.gd/8Ybgk Impressive. #
• Having a rough day already and it's not yet noon. Anyone have cheering-me-up suggestions? #
• Thanks @thekateyouknow and @mikearosenthal – totally did the trick. #
• Raining so hard that I had to dry my hair when I got home? Yes. Ugh. #
• I just unlocked the "Swarm" badge on @foursquare! #
• I'm at Snowpocalypse NYC w/ @rstaicut @angibabez @slbedard. #
• The "faces" feature of iPhoto '09 is really impressive. Now I just wish I had taken more pictures over the years. #
• Barber of Seville (@ The Metropolitan Opera House (MOH)) http://4sq.com/1ZvsXB #
• Is it possible that last night is one of the first operas I've ever seen? 13 years in NYC and only the one? Will have to rectify that… #
• After several days here on Hoth I'm starting to wonder if maybe I can get an AT-AT to get around. #
• Remidner for ITP Students and Alumni – 3pm-7pm today at ITP is Startup Camp Winter 2010. Alumni: email me to be put on the list. #ITP #

• I have begun to fear Twitter. And wonder how I got by in my life with so much overshare for so many years. #
• Oh, and as to overshare, I will be thrilled when Valentines day is over and we can get back to our lives. #
• New Blogpost: Walking Around http://is.gd/8sCQQ #
• I just updated my Wordpress rig to work with Twitter a little better – if it explodes my stream for a bit, I do apologize. #
• Winter 2010 ITP Startup Camp: Feb 28, 3pm-7pm at ITP. Open to the entire ITP community. Alumni etc sign up: http://is.gd/8ApB1 #ITP #
• Just discovered a new truck outside my office for lunch. Sticky rice for $4?! http://twitpic.com/13sonz http://twitpic.com/13sorx #
• Hanging out with @chrisabraham (@ Starbucks w/ @chrisabraham) http://4sq.com/88Enzo #
• Out with @chrisabraham http://twitpic.com/146t23 #

Walking around, originally uploaded by swerdloff.

A self portrait while walking around the Village one afternoon.

I haven’t really been writing in a long time. I kind of miss it, I just don’t have a lot to say.

Right now I’m working on getting the next Startupcamp pulled together for this season (it’ll be shortly) for the Floor Four Ventures project for ITP.

I’ve been working at my firm again and debating next steps in my life. I’ve been kind of stagnant since graduating, and part of me wonders if it’s not, in part, because I stopped blogging.

I’ve been blogging since 1999. It coincides with high energy parts of my life, it coincides with getting things done, and it coincides with lots of achievement. I don’t know if there is correlation between writing and doing, but I find that I have much more impetus to engage with the world if I think that in turn there will be feedback.

I went through my photos a bit today, looked back over the past few years, saw a lot of socializing, and an abrupt drop-off of that starting in September of this past year. Since then, it’s been pretty socially quiet. My ITP friends seem to have scattered, and since I’m not a resident, I don’t get to see even the ones that are around, much.

Since aggregation in the ITP Alumni Blogblender I’ve been even more cagey than usual about writing about my life. I have wider dispersion of my writing with that aggregator (does anyone else have it in RSS like I do and avidly try to keep up on what their friends and other ITPers are up to?) which makes me somehow more cautious. Never mind that in 2001/2002 I capped out at around 1000 hits a day, never mind that this site was remembered for years afterwards (I’ve got lots of funny “hey, you’re that guy with the sign” anecdotes) but somehow I’m more cautious now than ever.

Maybe it’s because I’ve got more to lose? Or I got wiser as I got older? Or more cowardly? I don’t actually know, and the not knowing actually bothers me.

How many of THESE posts have I made – the ones swearing up and down that it’s a good idea for me to start writing again, where I talk about the things I want to do, etc?

Too many, I think. Too many to take myself seriously.

What’s most interesting to me right now is that using Foursquare and Last Night’s Checkins I can finally do what I always wanted to do when this first started, which is track what I do on a day to day basis and use that to create a sort of life-cast for myself.

I feel like I’ve gotten boring as I round the corner past 34 and a half. I need to fix that.

You only get to do this once, I am reliably told. May as well make the most of it, right?

• Good afternoon talking strategy with @gruen leading to a night of implementation of same. I'm sure Twitter will tell me how the game goes. #
• Sometimes I make bad decisions on purpose to see how they'll turn out. Rarely ends well, but it's always interesting. #
• Is Buzz Google's Beacon? Will it have the same impact on Google that Beacon had FB? (Read: minimal) Your privacy is not so important..? #

• Sitting in an East Village window and watching the people walk by is just as much fun as I remember it. #
• Evening plans just evaporated. Do I stay home, work, and rest, or go find something to do? Suggestions welcome. #
• First Mondays networking event. Nearby? Say hi! (@ B Smith's) http://4sq.com/cuCYp6 #
• Coffee before LegalTech. Anyone gonna be a LegalTech? (@ The Bean Coffee and Tea) http://4sq.com/318HTm #
• LegalTech (@ Hilton New York w/ 3 others) http://4sq.com/8BX7zL #
• @matthewburton Your criteria (Tough, necessary, and Hard to swallow) makes it pretty hard to figure. 2/3 is easy 3/3 is hard for me. in reply to matthewburton #
• @matthewburton How about JFK's Cuban embargo? in reply to matthewburton #
• @matthewburton I got nothin', sorry. in reply to matthewburton #
• Dear @Apple, Please add "mark all as read" to my iPhone mail client. Thanks, -Swerdloff #
• @idiscoverglobal I absolutely agree with @mvedelman – had a total blast, thank you again. Safe travels home. #
• "Let me get this straight: you are a VP at Morgan Stanley and you live with your parents? Wow. The economy still sucks, doesn't it." –Me #
• Unexpectedly awesome night. I suddenly worry that I am @ronenv and stole his life. #
• Wow. What a night. A Wednesday no less #

• A surprisingly good weekend so far, and it's not over for another several hours. #
• Perfect cap on the weekend. Exhaustion == bed. #
• I used to be the king of overshare, circa 1999-2004. Now I'm afraid to write anything because I think everyone's watching. What happened? #
• @BaghdadBrian I did. I got old. What are the ramifications of continuing the overshare at this point? Is it just "unseemly?" in reply to BaghdadBrian #
• @BaghdadBrian Sure, but I'm talking about the real life ramifications of writing about your life, not the # of followers I have… in reply to BaghdadBrian #
• I've googled but found the answers insufficient – what's the size limit of iTunes before it starts having problems and slowing WAY down? #
• New music + iTunes genius = spin cycle for my brain all day. Thanks for the assist @rubyvrooom #
• I just ousted @zebs as the mayor of Belcourt on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/4okV8S #

• Counting my blessings. Way more than 4. Reminded of that this weekend. #
• Seen this weekend: http://yfrog.com/356jejj Such a good time that I'm still smiling. #
• I love that BBEdit has Grep functionality, so I can "easily" do pattern matching search and replaces. #nerd #
• Trying a new 1 hour/day totally unplugged regime this week. Wildly productive. Thanks @jcn #
• Dinner with RR! (@ Belcourt) http://4sq.com/4okV8S #
• Way way way overextended tonight, missed some of my favorite people, now have to go fete a friend's 35th at midnight. #
• Ethan's birthday. Happy birhday old man. (@ Whiskey Town) http://4sq.com/rlOyn #
• I have had two songs from Dr. Horrible stuck in my head since Sunday evening. It's now Thursday. Good lord. #
• This time last year I was first contemplating doing @flr4ventures and it's still alive now. Wild. #
• Lousy night, with the exception of a nice dinner with @jcn . At least there was that. #
• January is a socially lunatic as December was quiet. December was the holiday season. I don't understand. #
• I just unlocked the "16 Candles" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/7zmWQx #
• Happy birthday @Gruen (@ Spitzer's Corner w/ 3 others) http://4sq.com/3ZlUKy #
• A friend of a friend was just murdered at random in Antigua. RIP. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. #
• Can't decide which is better to talk to when I need to secretly get things off my chest: omegle or eliza. #
• Ok, hilarious, right after I post that about omegle/eliza I came across this: http://is.gd/6SFn1 #
• Anyone going to Bitforms tonight? #
• Social media "Gurus" – if I don't know you and you friend me on @foursquare how can you claim to understand the medium? #

• A friend in Jamaica just suggested I listen to "a funny episode of This American Life" – turned out it starred @jorgej Too funny. #
• I'm at Pata Negra (345 E 12th St, btw 1st and 2nd ave, New York). http://4sq.com/8Expf4 #
• Dear coffee, Please start working. Your friend, Swerdloff. #
• Frozen iguanas are the new black. #
• Inked. http://yfrog.com/3gnkvsj #
• Late to the game, but I just sent the HAITI text to 90999. Have you donated to relief yet? #
• Danny Glover – just as stupid as Pat Robertson. http://is.gd/6jW5H #
• #followfriday @badbanana @Swerdloff @AinsleyofAttack #
• #followfriday @mvedelman #
• Taking the night off to relax. Hello Hulu, I can't remember the last time I caught up with you… #
• Brunch with the family. Then what? (@ Lobby Bar @ Ace Hotel) http://4sq.com/5RRXm #
• How about the following to add to the health care plan: if insurance company denies coverage, you get every penny of premiums back. #
• @funfarmer Be careful with Yele.org: http://is.gd/6p1Zu Consider doctors without borders: http://is.gd/6p2ac #

• Comedy on twitter is officially over: http://is.gd/5KOOR #
• Google Wave hysteria is over, then? #
• So, look at the following tweet: http://is.gd/5L4YB Now tell me – is Google Skynet or is Google Skynet? I DO NOT KNOW JOHN CONNOR'S LAT/LNG #
• Sitting home on a cold Sunday night, wondering what to do for the last night before returning to work. Hmm #
• Wow. Chris Dodd is retiring? #
• Although politicians traditionally lie, the Internet age has made it easier to hold their feet to the fire: http://is.gd/5OIfH #
• Wanted – the addition of a note whether or not a particular twitterer is following you when you look at their twitter page. #
• Ah – slightly more complicated than I'd like it to be (slightly) but it's there. Thanks @gruen! #
• ITP Folks: Planning our Startup Camp AND a Floor Four Ventures info session/focus group. Interested? Email me! #
• I'd like to apologize to my twitter followers for being incredibly boring for awhile now. I'll do better, promise. #
• As @crackhead points out, it's been approximately 3 years, 3 days, 6 hours and a handful of minutes that I've been boring. So very sorry. #
• I'd also like to note that my tweet was not a "tweg" for attention, it was just an apology to the twitterverse. #
• How come when we expect the worst we often get it but when we expect the best we don't? Totally unfair, universe, totally unfair. #
• @misuba No, I mean expect. I expected something specific to go wrong and it has. I expected something to go right and it didn't. in reply to misuba #
• Everything went better than expected. #
• How'd I not realize the brilliance that is Fringe until just recently? X-Files with better science, humor, cast, and complexity… #
• Debating working all night vs. going to find something to do. Of course, I don't have anything lined up to do, so working is winning. #