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PROMOTION of something (skype)
Skype. It’s new, and it’s hot. It lets you make free calls to anyone who has the Skype software. Your eery voice travels across the interweb, and freaks the hell out of anyone who works for a...
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Infantilizing the mid-21st century mind
Via this article: “Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of...
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Symptoms of the techno blind
Music by genre, not artist, Tweet, then archive those in case. Beta invite code! Missed call from mum, After the status update from that friend who Just got RSS working. Tap keys and Brush off the...
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Web Trend Map [data vis]
‘Web trends‘ put out by Information Architects (.jp) is always a treat. Their map of the movers and shakers of the web are laid out like the Tokyo subway with a surprising amount of dimension: rank,...
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Post to Friendfeed, Twitter, and the “realtime web” in 3 seconds flat from...
To make a realtime WordPress (self hosted) blog: Two plugins and one checkbox on Friendfeed: 1) Get Wp-sup. SUP is the protocol that updates Friendfeed, kindly developed by Friendfeed. It’s an...
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Army opens Mil internet access to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Vimeo
Photo by tcmhitchhiker Today was the day that Army bases were ordered to stop blocking social media sites. No Youtube, yes Vimeo. No Myspace, yes Facebook. Seems arbitrary, but those are the sites I...
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Announcing whatsonyourthing.com
I started whatsonyourthing.com for a number of reasons I find it disturbing when people unwittingly carve out a huge chunk of their day to interact on a small screen, whether it be for text messaging,...
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Is there a peak to user-generated content? Wikipedia contributions are on the...
The ecosystem of Wikipedia, and probably other wikis in the Wikimedia group, appear to be suffering from an over-vigilant team of editors who are increasingly quick to revert changes from less-active...
View ArticleBeethoven and Miles Davis as extreme limits for media capacity
From the FAQ for Bandcamp (a music-selling platform): What’s the maximum upload size? It’s 290MB, or more precisely, 305,088,054 bytes (that’s 297,937.6 kibibytes or 290.95 mebibytes to you, Lieutenant...
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Toast to Technology
Obama was in town, and had a nice meal with •John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers • Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo Inc. • John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems...
View ArticleBitcoin and Morality
Bitcoin — a currency by most measures — is consistently framed as ‘amoral.’ Let’s think about why currencies are not compatible with morality. An unethical or amoral use for a unit of exchange says...
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Go humans!
Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from near-space makes me wish we had a real manned mission planned — the world is INTO IT, judging by the millions tuned in. Maybe Red Bull would sponsor it? No related...
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Tuesday: A big day for Genetically Modified Food
Update: California disappointed me. Prop 37 did not pass. I’ve been diving into the history of Genetically Modified foods lately. I find the difference between attitudes in Europe and those in the U.S....
View ArticleNavigation from peripheral vision
The problem with navigation applications during the act of navigation is that there is way too much information at hand. Once I start a navigation app, the two questions I have in mind are “When do I...
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