Doc Searls: The World Live Web
Doc Searls has a really good article on the state of the Web (from last fall).* He talks about the ‘static’ Web and the ‘living’ W...
Category: The Narrative
Burrito panelists judge local chains’ burritos – Boston.com
“Emerging sub-culture”? My ass. I’ve been chowing down on burritos for a very long time, along with many others. And in my day, it was hard to...
Hmm, more on Facebook, social objects, personas, and so forth
Stefan’s comment to my post on Facebook ("Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy") got me thinking: I regularly explain to people about how users ...
We’re moving into an oral culture on so many levels
We’re rapidly approaching an oral culture. The fluidity of the Web seems to have many aspects of an oral culture in terms of how we can interact with so m...
How to teach a service the connections I have in my mind
I’ve been a big proponent of teaching machines by doing. I don’t mean that the machine is ‘watching’ my move and guessing what is going ...
Are Kosovars Albanians or Serbians?
I grew up thinking that nations should be the scale at which people are governed. I could not understand why Israel didn’t just make all the Palestinians ...
Cool digitized handwriting from LIFT 08 – Fontself
There were these guys at LIFT 08 who were digitizing everyone’s writing so that we could post and comment in our own handwriting. It’s just awesome....
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years. I tend to listen to a bunch of ...
Nice little video of Socialthing
Yup. These social network aggregation services are popping up all over. Check out this video Socialthing made of what they are offering (link below, too). Prett...
Yahoo! Design closed down?
I just can’t believe that Yahoo! Design closed down (link to rumour below). I think the department might have closed and that there are designers elsewher...