June 2010
35 posts
Cultivated Play: Farmville | MediaCommons →
“We are citizens of a democracy, and democratic citizenship has always been a...”
– Cultivated Play: Farmville | MediaCommons
“And that’s how you start a column about iOS 4 if you’re a beard-stroking tech...”
– iOS 4 brings the usual bang from Apple for mobile :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko (via Instapaper)
File System Infobase Manager →
Shifting Mediums →
“Getting info into an electronic system is, still, not easy, not if you have any...”
– Shifting Mediums (via Instapaper)
Getting Things Done: Setting Up the Right Buckets →
YouTube wins case against Viacom →
Thank goodness that common sense prevailed in this case. A big win for Safe-Harbor.
Pound Cake speech - Wikisource →
Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? →
“We suggest that telecommunications executives who seriously expect certitude in...”
– A crusade against the Internet’s “regulatory uncertainty” (via Instapaper)
Seven ways AT&T is failing its mobile customers →
Guy: You're just making this up as you go along.
Other Guy: Yeah, but I do it brilliantly.
Better - Merlin Mann →
“Everyone applauds the hyper-connectedness we’re experiencing today. The truth is...”
– Richard Ziade: Growing Old Friends (via marco)
Digital Signatures and Attribution
I wish more software supported digital signatures. This is especially true for software that lets you view the creative work of someone. For example, it would be really awesome if there was some easy and open way to format a GPG signature in a way that web browsers would intelligently parse it and cross-reference it to the confirmed signatures. While that’s all really technical and most...
“In Afghanistan, as in many cultures, a manly embrace is a time-honored tradition...”
– The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists (via Instapaper)
On advertising / from a working library →
Ways of reading / from a working library →
A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Readers →
“Through this premise we find ourselves in a familiar conundrum: it is the...”
– On advertising / from a working library (via Instapaper)
“The only effective way to respond to text on screen is to write about it. The...”
– Ways of writing / from a working library
“A good reader reads attentively, not only listening to what the writer says, but...”
– Ways of reading / from a working library (via Instapaper)
Cops could soon be using iPhones armed with facial... →
When you watch the video, you’ll notice that the Brockton Chief of Police puts heavy emphasis on how this technology won’t be abused, in any way, by officers out on the street. He says that it’s meant to be used only when somebody has “done something wrong,” and there is probable cause to use the tech. The problem, as I see it, is that “probable cause” can...
“Imagine if the wireless carriers controlled your wired broadband connection or...”
– Wireless Oligopoly Is Smother of Invention | Epicenter | Wired.com
The mobile revolution has arrived →
“Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“God is the author of all genuine liberty, for his act on the Cross for us...”
– John Warwick Montgomery
“Who is going to create for all mankind one single system of values for evil...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Actually Reading Web Content (or the Reader...
Since the release of Safari 5 on monday there has been a big argument going on all over the internet about an otherwise simple feature. The feature in question, Reader, strips out the formatting of a webpage around an article. This is not a new feature. It has been around in the form of Readability and Instapaper for some time now (the code for it is even based on Readability). It’s causing...
