The RSS Solution
Eric posted a link last week to BlogLines, an online RSS reader. I've been using the site ever since Eric posted it, and I must admit I am very impressed. If you read RSS feeds, and are looking for a solution that works from any location using…
Microsoft in Human Rights Row
Technology sold by Microsoft to the Chinese government has been used by Beijing to censor the internet, and resulted in the jailing of its political opponents. An Amnesty International report has cited Microsoft among a clutch of leading computer…
More Mac Fun
"Never ask a person what computer they use. If it's a Mac, they'll tell you. If it's not, why embarrass them?" -- Tom Clancy
The Dean Scream
Here is an interesting take on the Dean scream that was played by the media over 700 times the next day. It turns out that the footage we've been seeing on TV had his voice isolated, so the viewer hears the scream out of context. Turns out, had…
Social networks
I've been interested in the dynamics of social networks for some time at both a professional personal level. I've finally decided to test out one of the social network sites, namely Orkut as it was designed at Google and is invitation only. Thus…
This fascinates me...
John Perry Barlow and Joi Ito create an ambient connected environment while one is in Colorado and the other is in Japan. Description from Barlow. iChatAV is an amazing piece of software and one that makes me wish Macs had a larger market share so…
The future of man/machine interfaces
I am using a Touchstream keyboard right now, both at work and at home. It is a zero resistance keyboard with mouse and gesturing. What can I do with gesturing? A more appropriate question is what can't I do. If you seen the movie Minority…
Mom finds out about blog
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—In a turn of events the 30-year-old characterized as "horrifying," Kevin Widmar announced Tuesday that his mother Lillian has discovered his weblog. Above: Widmar, whose blog was recently discovered by his mother Lillian (inset).…
The problems with abundance
I found this story to be quite interesting. It discusses the impact of technology on the otherwise natural occurence of scarcity. Worth a read. Full Story