April 13th, 2008
Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…
March 12th, 2008
The home page on my web browser displays news headlines from the Associated Press, the New York Times, and CNN — as well as technology-related headlines from various publications. I thought it was interesting to see how the collection of 20 headlines from the three serious “publishers” of news fell into categories:
4 headlines related to […]
March 11th, 2008
If you’re old enough to have conscious memories of the 1980s, then you probably have fond memories of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video — regardless of what you thought of the artist, either then or now. Like so many things today, it’s available (in several different versions and formats) on YouTube. Here’s a 9-minute version that […]
February 27th, 2008
I got an unexpected email from a colleague this morning, which said, simply, “It has been a few weeks since any new posts have appeared on your blog. I trust all is well with you.” He and I don’t communicate that often; indeed, it appears that I’ve gotten only five emails from him since the […]
February 10th, 2008
It was a big deal in the United States when we lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Among the many arguments in favor of such a change was that 18 year old citizens could join the army, fight for their country, get a driver’s license, get married, and generally perform all sorts of […]
January 11th, 2008
I’ve written various blog postings on the subject of “Good enough” (see, for example, this recent post about the “good enough” nature of Twitter, and this somewhat older one of a more general nature), but it occurred to me that I should acknowledge the opposite end of the spectrum: bad enough.
When a software product […]
January 9th, 2008
I’m reading an interesting book that’s been on my “to-read” list for quite a while: Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: moving from the information age to the conceptual age. Because the book was published in the spring of 2005, some of its ideas seem a little dated by now — e.g., Pink’s assertion that […]
January 7th, 2008
I noticed a curious statistic today: my Twitter network is almost three times larger than my Dopplr network. Inquiring minds want to know: how could that be?
Let’s ignore a couple of perfectly reasonable, but uninteresting, possible explanations. Maybe the “sample size” of my networks is so small that any difference between the two is statistically […]
December 27th, 2007
I’ve been slowly accumulating new Web 2.0 material during the past month, and it’s time for an update. As usual, you can access the presentation in a variety of formats, although I haven’t yet had time to upload the “ugly Betty” version to Google Apps. For now, you can view it, and/or download it, from […]
December 25th, 2007
This has nothing to do with Christmas, or any other serious topic. But I was alerted to its existence by a fellow Twitterer, and it brought a smile to my face. If things are getting a little too serious in your world, pause for a moment and listen to Kina Grannis tell you all about […]
