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A Wikid Mistake
03.30.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

“When I first saw this, I had to do a double take,” writes Ars Technica‘s Emil Protalinski of Microsoft’s announcement that that the company is killing Encarta this year. “I made sure it wasn’t April 1 at least three times before I conceded.” – I did a double take too, but in the opposite direction. [...]

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
Thing n-1: Fail not fail
01.28.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

This One Time in 2006 this guy Ze Frank decided to make a thing every single day for year. These “things” were short videos of frenetic pace and hilarity that belie their 24 hour production cycle. Like this: This Other Time, I vowed to myself that I would post something every day. I didn’t even [...]

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Thing 3: This is Things.app
12.13.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

We all have a lotta junk we’d like to accomplish. Task management software is almost invariably crap. Either too many buttons or too little more than a simple list. Things.app nails it, blending the GTD methodology with the simplicity of pen and paper. If you’ve got a mac, grab it while the beta is still [...]

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
What’s on the other side of the shark?
05.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

What Are We Twittering? | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
Better living through more web services.
03.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Might as well jump! Go ahead jump! We've hung with BaseCamp. We've held the corner with WordPress. Now it'd like to introduce you all to a new toy to consider for our gang: Pownce. If you were lucky enough to have read Benji and my ancient discussion of Twitter – or are otherwise familiar – [...]

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
The VC are on their way….
03.02.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

…now that we have quincyadamsobserver.com!! What are you guys going to do with your first million? I call dibs on a Tesla roadster. If you get one you'll just be copying me, and nobody likes a copycat.

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mine media minutia, seriously, tech web toys
Barcamp and shared spaces
02.05.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Just got back from Barcamp Texas. The definition these particular organizers forwarded is a good one: BarCamp is an ad-hoc technology gathering for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction with attendees. So no, there were neither tents nor pubs involved. The ‘bar’ [...]

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
Old bugger has a point
01.12.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

David Lynch on viewing films on a PMP like the iPhone. via BoingBoing For a guy that disdains interviews, he makes a strong and concise point. Video on a 3 inch screen doesn’t make a lot of sense. That said, PMP’s will continue to drive a rapidly growing market for independently, but professionally, produced shorter [...]

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mine media minutia, tech web toys
Regarding Twitter, Pollock, and “The Tipping Point”
12.01.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Benji has some interesting thoughts on his blog Ochlocratic Osculation regarding the multiplying Twitter/ Jaichu/Pownce/”what are you doing now?” micro-blog services. As always, his economy of communication is such that the meat of his post can be reproduced briefly here. I say Twitter is to the digital communications revolution what Jackson Pollock is to nonrepresentational [...]

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Intellectual Property and Culture, tech web toys
EMI dunks it’s foot in the non-DRM waters, and the copyright issues therein
04.02.07 | Permalink | 83 Comments

EMI has announced that, in partnership with Apple Inc, it will begin in May to offer it's nearly full catalogue – minus still the Beatles – for purchase without DRM from the iTunes music store. DRM stands for "digital rights management" and has been pervasively implemented in the digital sales of major label music. The [...]

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