About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
If you’re on the fence about attending MinneBar, I’ll be demoing the FeedSeeder Project. Maybe that’ll tilt you either way. I’ve got a stack of index cards listing features that should be implemented by then. 16 features, 16 days. Tick tock. Update 11 Apr 2007: I’ll also be leading a session on ‘Designing for Use’. …
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In an effort to reduce my chronic back pain from hunching over the laptop screen, I just unpacked a 23″ Cinema Display. My first impression: Sure has a lot of cords.
“This Song is a Commercial” by Wonderlick “The future is ad-supported music. Not that the idea is new idea but it is reality.” – NVTS, Evolving Trends The future is music as ad and the future is already here. Recorded music is an ad for the live performance (always has been). Recorded music is an …
Anyone else catch the excellent example of ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ in this week’s The Amazing Race? 4 people counting the same set of stairs, deciding the number that 2 people settled on was the correct number.
Like the NYTimes, a month ago, today’s Strib gave carbon offsets the hairy eyeball. As they confirm, being carbon neutral is super cheap ($6/laptop, a dime/gallon of gas). It’s so cheap, that I see it as the 2nd easiest way to be more environmentally & energy conscious. The first – buying all your energy through …
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Thanks to Doug Adams’ script, Current Track to Twitter v1.5, if you follow me via Twitter you’ll get continual updates on what I’m listening to. I’m digging Twitter as way to automatically publish in the background. I can keep my flow and we can stay connected. I see this quality that’ll keep Twitter from being …
“Please do not overdo it, nobody wants to read about every single track you hear. “ Really? I thought that’s what Twitter was all about. Oh well. 🙂
After reading LifeHacker’s excellent Beginners Guide to Quicksilver I thought I’d try somethings I haven’t asked Quicksilver to do before. Like shell scripts. I know I’ve got one lying around – here’s one – my backup script. Bad idea. Quicksilver is unresponsive while the script is running and completely ignores my increasingly frantic key invocations. …
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Mark your calendars, on April 16th, Peter Fleck and I will be on a panel with TCDailyPlanet‘s Executive Director – Jeremy Iggers, and the U’s Christina Lopez talking about how ubiquitous internet access will change community news. More info: Wireless Cities Conference, looks like it’s $75 for U students and staff, and $175 for the …
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Trawlr. Another browser-based, Rails-built, RSS reader thingy. As I await my opml import (tick….tock…tick…tock), I’m not impressed. Confirming there’s lots of work to do in RSS land. Yes, I’ve got horse in the race….but only ’cause I haven’t found another horse worth betting on. 😉