A Use Case for Identity XML – Demographic Surveys

Stowe Boyd’s running a reader survey. I’ve followed Stowe from Get Real to /Message and thought I’d check out the survey. Standard demographic stuff; age, gender, household income, zip code, employment status, profession, internet usage, etc. Those common questions attempting to build an anonymous picture of people without actually getting involved with them. Reading through …

I Own It

It’s been a rough week for podcast-network overlords. First, Keith and the Girl dug into the Podshow Contract then Eric Rice responds with a smack down. Then, Graeme and Frosty in It Radio break the news that I’ve been making quietly acquiring podcasts for my own evil podcast network. No, it’s not safe for work …

RSS Feeds Replacing CDs – It’s Starting

A while back I pondered RSS feeds replacing Compact Discs as the primary way to receive music from your favorite artists. As I mentioned in that post: “With a podcast, musicians can release whatever they’d like, whenever they’d like; demo tracks, rough tracks, experiments, final edits, interviews, conversations about the song writing process, anything their …

My Heritage Finds Alan Turing in a Tree

This morning, Jen and I were playing with MyHeritage.com‘s facial recognition system. Here you can see the MyHeritage system found Jen’s face and someone lurking in the bushes. Who could it be hiding in the Belgian forest? Perhaps British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing? Maybe, star of television’s Baywatch and Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff …

First Crack 76. Paying Attention with J Wynia

Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about: Using email clients for reading and managing RSS feeds J’s Windows Attention Recorder and Edison Thomaz’ OnLife and the AttentionTrust Recorder Comparing technology adoption to the ebb and flow of tides The ethics and benefits of attention recording Some thoughts …