….email apps didn’t consider reading and writing separate modes? …you could post to your blog, from mine? …your online profile was filled out by your friends? …Popularity was measured by the size of the group of people that are everywhere you are. …only robots exchanged messages on Twitter. …I stopped getting distracted by hypotheticals? UPDATE …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
WiFi vs Cell Networks Question
If disaster strikes which one do you bet on for getting back up and usable faster? Inspired by:
I’ll be at PodcampMN – Aug 25, 2007
A gentle reminder to add your name to the PodcampMN 2007 attendee list wiki. Thanks to Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial and Boned for the great capture-the-flag-at-summer-camp logo
“I am very concerned we have squandered the gift of time”
“…The only reason these events did not result in a successful terror attack is because the bad guys were thieves and smugglers, not terrorists…” – David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance
Hello Nokia 6806 and TMobile HotSpot @Home
After watching my Treo 650 looping restart all morning, I’ve decided to leave it 1 and move to a very utilitarian Nokia 6086. Things I dislike about the Nokia: Flip phone. I’m just not a big fan. Display is much less attractive than the Treo’s. Only 500 slots in the Contacts list (I had to …
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Kris Takes the Un out of Unconference
As much as I like Kris, I disagree with his How to save your unconference post. It’s #2 that gives it away: “Awesome hallway conversations” If you’re having awesome hallway conversations, it’s not an unconference. It’s a regular conference. Sorry. A good unconference has the awesome conversations within the sessions. Otherwise – why bother with …
I had a brief conversation this morning about future-proofing
I had a brief conversation this morning about future-proofing websites. What persists centuries? Not commercial endeavors. Religious ones.
OurSpace – One Small Step in Commons
Who would really enjoy this book? An art history, marketing, or communications professor who doesn’t yet grok the significance and importance of Creative Commons. In all honestly, considering the 2007 publication date of the OurSpace by Christine Harold, I was hoping for a deep dive into all the culture under the Creative Commons license. Harold …
Twitter Ends Friendship
In a move that should rock the ‘social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, …