MP3ing: This guy Malcom Kipe on Merck has an album out of really nice simple instrumental hiphop and sample-monkeying. Nothing crazy or revolutionary, but that's probably why I'm playing it a lot.

Thoughting: The new bubble is here, kids. Last week at SXSWi the number of VC-fueled $5000 open-bars was out of control. Now 37 Signals is on the cover of Business Week for supposedly bringing KISS-style opensource dogma to the masses. I spend a lot of time lately alternating between excitement and ambivalence about all this.

Coding: The new freelance career is busy! Event-organizing tools for the World Food Programme, site redesigns for Ashoka, and miscellaneous work on a half dozen smaller projects.

Designing: I dislike having Toneland as a "personal blog" and tjones.cc as a "professional site". I've been experimenting with ways to merge them. My latest attempt is a moo.fx/flickr/del.icio.us hybrid that I'm not really happy with yet.

Listening: to Bruce Sterling's SXSWi keynote, in which he basically tells everyone there that they are obese and backwards. Not that I necessarily disagree with him. I'm trying to decide if it's all hand-waving or actually substantive. I'm also processing how a lot of people seem to be making a living as conference-track wide-eyed motivational-speakers-slash-public-intellectuals.