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 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, Technology, Wordpress on May 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
I updated all my blogs to Wordpress 2.2 and now they all have character issues, such as posts that use apostrophes as in it’s.
And I’m definitely not the guy to figure out why and how to fix it.
Update:
It appears to only affect previous posts, like the one just below this, not new ones. Hmm.
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Posted in Computers, Mac, PC, Technology on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I love this video. Thanks to the thinking blog for pointing it out. It’s good to see I’m not the only one who feels this way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
Apparently I couldn’t embed the video in my old blog template. So I had to make a quick change to another Wordpress theme. Very frustrating. Still can’t embed it.
Followup: After […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, People, Social networks, Technology, User experience, Web, Web 2.0 on May 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Social networks are like lawns with dandelion problems. They’re very nice, and hopefully well-maintained - but those weeds!
I’ve joined quite a few now, primarily out of curiosity. The value is clear, at least to me, in the better ones. Being connected is a good thing, and finding new people with similar interests, hobbies, careers and […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Education, Movies, Reading, Technology, Web, Work on April 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Good grief. It’s already April. Where’ve I been?
Well, as the photo on the right suggests, I’ve been feeding squirrels. (Not really, actually. But a friend put the corn out in the backyard to see what the squirrels would do. Being logical creatures, they ate it.)
I’ve been up to several things: work, education, new house and […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Marketing, Technology, Web, Web 2.0, Work, Writers, Writing on February 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
You know, much as I enjoy Seth’s blog, sometimes I hate it – especially when he ends a post by asking a question that makes me squirm.
His post Great writing, unfiltered is essentially about how technology, the Internet, Web 2.0 – whatever you want to call it – has changed marketing and, specifically, writing. Actually, […]
