Posted in Communication, Internet, Social networks, Technology, Web on April 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I just posted a notion on Twitter. I don’t know what you call that. Twitting? Doesn’t matter …
The notion was this: Twitter is a like a new form of haiku. I rarely understand what I’m reading.
Not that you necessarily need to say something that requires more than 140 characters. Or that it won’t be long […]
Posted in Communication, Technology, User experience, Web on April 29th, 2008 No Comments »
A while ago I posted about the Web getting increasingly annoying. Not surprisingly, in a brief post called Signal to noise, Seth does a much better job of articulating much the same thing. He also has the perfect metaphor: signal to noise.
Even if it was all good, there’s just too much stuff coming through. […]
Posted in Business, Internet, Web on April 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Seth’s post Silly Traffic is worth a read. To use a cliche, it’s a reminder to not sweat the small stuff, in this case as it relates to web sites. Your site may get a lot of traffic, and you may be working your behind off to get that traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily translate […]
Posted in Computers, Technology on April 19th, 2008 No Comments »
As I read Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch I wonder, as I have before, are we making ourselves redundant? By “we,” I mean us. Human beings. As computerization does so many wonderful things for us, one of those wonderful things is the elimination of loads of work. And that’s not quite so wonderful since it […]
Posted in Computers, Mac, PC, Technology, Vista on April 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Let’s talk about software updates: Could they be more frequent? It seems every second day I’m getting a new Firefox or iTunes update. Yes, I know you get the little window that asks if you want to install now or later, but I’m getting a little tired of working on my computer and getting these […]
Posted in Communication, Mobile, Technology on April 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Very briefly: I’m learning to dislike them. A lot.
Actually, I’ve never cared for them a great deal. But what use to be ambivalence is now increasingly weighted to the negative side of things.
More about this spine-tingling issue later, when there is more time for ranting. (Can you say Windows?)
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Posted in Blogs, Communication, Internet, Web on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across Seth’s post Drop the Dot? and mused a bit on the suggestion the post begins with which came from someone who had written to him. The suggestion was, “… that [dot] com is superfluous, just as www is.”
I agreed with Seth’s response, which was:
The suffix is useful, and we’ll have it […]
Posted in Communication, Internet, Social networks, User experience, Web on April 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I was reading a post somewhere about Twitter, followed a few links, saw articles about it being a growing social network phenomenon … the usual malarkey about “the next big thing.”
Of course, I had to check it out.
Mistake.
Having registered and so on, I foolishly said, “Yes, check my email for contacts on Twitter.” The end […]
