July 2010
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September 2009
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March 2009
5 posts
Candy-Maker Tries To Ignore Kids Pretending To... →
Click through to AdAge to read “What to do if people are messing with your brand online”>
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What happens when people use…
Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual... →
Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist…
More design mediating interaction
How does architecture affect academic study? From The Independent
Hat tip to The Browser, an excellent intelligent (the human kind) link aggregator. Thanks to Marginal Revolution to pointing me towards that.
Update: This piece presents some ideas on public transportation as social structure mediating a city’s interactions.
February 2009
7 posts
My night with Lawrence @Lessig, Shepard Fairey,...
Awesome story from my friend Jake about the power of Twitter search, intelligent copyright law, and collective engagement.
FTW, Jake. FTW.
jakelevine:
I had the opportunity to join my friend Eric at the New York Public Library tonight to hear from Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson (event details). Lessig began with his Remix presentation, which I had never seen live. He is an...
New Bon Iver EP at Amazon for $0.99. Thanks to...
Hearst May Close SF Chronicle →
Hearst says it might have to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle if it can’t lay off a “significant” number of employees “within weeks.” From the release:
Hearst said that the …
“People point out that there’s a significant sleight-of-hand in every status...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine
New Internet, key to identity?
From the Times:
The Internet’s current design virtually guarantees anonymity to its users. (As a New Yorker cartoon noted some years ago, “On the Internet, nobody knows that you’re a dog.”) But that anonymity is now the most vexing challenge for law enforcement. An Internet attacker can route a connection through many countries to hide his location, which may be from an account in an Internet cafe...
Mobile Phone Numbers and Identity
Despite living in SF, I still have my 617 number and use it with a little bit of pride. Whenever I trade numbers with a fellow 617er, I feel a mini connection is made.
Annoyingly, some cab companies will only take 415 numbers, so I got a forwarding number to use for these purposes.
But this post makes an excellent point: numbers are one of the things that are unlikely to change, much more so...
January 2009
10 posts
The comScore 2008 Digital Year in Review →
Go Ma!
A book my mom designed won the Caldecott Medal today. It’s called The House in the Night. This is the 5th book she’s designed that has won the award, which honors the best Childen’s book illustrations each year. AFAIK, that’s pretty unprecedented. Congratulations!
Even though she didn’t illustrate the book, I’ll give her a measure of credit for the award. How a...
Flowbee →
This is just what I’ve always wanted/needed! A vacuum powered home haircutting system!
Check my friend Ben in the Los Angeles Times!
Here. That rules.
...Aaaaand We're Live
I watched the inauguration at Google and one of the biggest claps (before Obama took the oath and gave his speech) was when the ABC commentator mentioned that whitehouse.gov had changed to the new administration. It doesn’t take much to get a bunch of Internet geeks excited, does it?
jakelevine:
www.whitehouse.gov
Best Windows 7 review so far →
tip to SAI
Hype Machine Top 50 Albums of 2008
You can find it here. This is what I love about the Internet: an intelligently put together list from a crowdsourced bibliography. There’s no reason it has to be one or the other. Techmeme recently made this change to allow some editorial finagling, and it works.
I’m already finding good stuff.
December 2008
9 posts
You Have To Burn The Rope →
This made me happy. via bontegames.
“In a famous 1960 article called “Marketing Myopia,” Theodore Levitt held up the...”
– James Surowiecki, “News You Can Lose” (via seantice)
Yes.
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This is an excellent point. My mom and I were discussing this idea the other day. If newspapers had gotten that they were information arbitragers, rather than just newsmen, they could have been Craigslist before Craigslist...
You know what I sort of hate? Sometimes, when you get really excited about a YouTube video and play it for your friends, about halfway through you realize that the video is longer than you thought and now everyone sort of wishes they weren’t watching it.
“In June, 2005, Bernanke was sworn in at the Eisenhower Executive Office...”
– This week’s New Yorker article on Bernanke
Who Protects The Internet? →
Shared by Alex
A highly suggested watch. There’s so much behind cyber warfare that we rarely hear of. Reminds me of “Who Controls the Internet,” a book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu that piqued my…
Getting OpenID Into the Browser →
Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that’s what people do anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that’s as important to…
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About... →
I saw Petland speak at Google. Sense Networks sounds a little like…the future.
November 2008
23 posts
“This is the real “Code Red.” As one banker remarked to me: “We finally found the...”
– Thomas Friedman
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can... →
Shared by Alex
Very cool idea. Would be killer for customer support at smaller companies.
Seth Godin on 'The Edifice Complex'
Hey writes,
“Why do banks spend so much money on marble lobbies, high ceilings and yes, $400 million to name a baseball stadium?…Do you really want to invest money at a bank run by a guy with nothing but a bridge table and a cheap suit? Probably not. At some level, we like the confidence that we get from that big lobby. We are more likely to perk up when the reporter has her cameraman...
My Post at South Africa Connect
Check out my guest post at South Africa Connect, a blog run by Alex Comninos, my advisor for research I did on access to technology in South Africa. He’s also my friend and a very intelligent ICT researcher in South Africa. Check out the blog if you get a chance.
There’s all kinds of interesting things going on with ICT in SA, and this blog is a good place to stay up to date. We often...
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My day so far at #IIW
I think my favorite session of the day was the first, which was on combining OAuth and OpenID. This seems to be the natural next step, and I hope the community figures out how to combine authentication and authorization [of sharing data]. Good points were made re: how average user just doesn’t get the difference between these two steps. Most of the session was above my head technically, but...
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Day 1 of the Internet Identity Workshop
Today kicked off the Internet Identity Workshop 2008b. I headed over to The Computer History Museum, just a mile from Google, after lunch. Slowly, the room began to fill with the giants of the identity world, those personas I’d only read about on the blogs.
I’ll give a short outline of the talks, but John McCrea has a post up with some great photos too.
Johannes Ernst of Net Mesh...
peppermint tea and sunday night work
Trying to grok OAuth spec today in prep for iiw2008b tomorrow
The Next President
From The Times,
This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States.
Wow.
