Like ququoo.com, I see Twittergram front-ends existing on-top-of, but for all intents and purposes independent from Twitter.com proper – using Twitter’s infrastructure for authentication, messaging, but otherwise very distinctive from Twitter as it has stabilized. The above sketch is heavily inspired by Twitterific, which is an OK fit. Something is still missing from it though. …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
A Middle Man’s a Middle Man
“Apple is no different than Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or RIAA….No modern consumer is going to stop listening to their favorite band because Circuit City doesn’t carry their CD.” – Benn Jordan Benn’s post is one of the many articles online showing how little compensation musicians receive from the business organizations that are said to be …
Dave just did something I’ve been thinki…
Dave just did something I’ve been thinking on and off about for a while now: Twitter meets podcasting. Behold – the promise of podcasting as voicemail….of _actually_ having a conversation via the ‘space phone’. I think I’ll dust off the FastCast idea after dinner tonight. So the FastCast workflow tweaked for Twittering: Record via Audio …
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Mech-turking
Verb. To do a manually do a process that either is or should be automated. Usage: “I haven’t had time to launch the new version, so we’re mech-turking the database until tomorrow.” Origin: a verbing of Mechanical Turk Credit for this word goes to: Peter Fleck Another successful contribution to the pseudo-dictionary.
Safari 3.0b on the Mac seems to get over…
Safari 3.0b on the Mac seems to get overwhelmed easily. After a few dozen websites, it acts like the network connection is dead. Quitting and reopening seem to help. So does spending more time in Camino
Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me …
Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me there’s still a huge need to aggregate communities of affinity (especially my favorite combo: affinity + geography). The tools we have today still aren’t mature enough to make this easy. This isn’t about creating a new silo. It’s about herding cats.
Flat Earth Releases Angry Planet @ Acadia Cafe June 30
From FlatEarthBrewing.com: “Flat Earth is sponsoring 10 hours of awesome bands and we will release our next and long awaited beer named Angry Planet, an American pale ale made with organic ingredients.” From AcadiaCafe.com: Flat Earth Brewing & Acadia Cafe Present Saturday, June 30, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM to 12:00 AM Cover Charge: $5.00 Ages: …
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A Scanner Darkly – Movie Review
Tonight, I watched Richard Linklater’s adaptation of ‘A Scanner Darkly’. As advertised, it was Philip K. Dick done by Richard Linklater and supervised by David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch with a little 1984 thrown in for optimism. Independent of Linklater’s comfort food cast (everyone is great), SD is an obvious, direct descendant from Slacker – all …
How to SFTP into a Virtual Server on Your Joyent Accelerator
I’m finally getting around to setting up my Joyent Accelerator. As I read through the ‘Getting Started with Joyent Accelerator’ wiki, things were going smoothly. Updating the nameserver at my registrar was unexpectedly fast and easy, as was signing into webmin, setting up a virtual server, a subversion repo, and a couple users. Now, which …
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Podcasts I’ll Listen To Anytime
Tim Coyne’s Hollywood Podcast Dan Klass’ Bitterest Pill Hometown Tales Eric Larson’s Ericast Cayenne Chris’ Teknikal Diffikulties Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles Russel Roberts’ EconTalk WNYC’s On the Media