“I guess it’s about respect. It’s about a relationship I had, and I think many of us had, with Twitter, that doesn’t seem to be there anymore. And that’s frustrating, and disappointing. But mostly I guess it’s just sad.” – Ed Finkler
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Worse than It Appears
“It’s like spammers took over technology, like the pet food guys did in 1999. Everyone has a scam. This year the scam is to grab all the user’s data and resell it.” – Dave Winer “My point is that your privacy has an economic value. Or it could, if such a market was created. Today …
Introducing: The Daily Reality Planner
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov 14, 1957 If you’re like me, you’ve continually struggled with answering 1 question: “Where did today go?” To Do lists are helpful in identifying what should be done. Assigning those To Do items a date and time on the calendar declares when …
Reminder, You Might Be Trying Too Hard
I love this play. It’s simple, counter-intuitive, executed with nonchalants. thanks Mark J. Perry
Arise, Mechanical Turks, Arise
Years ago, I heard a story of an American barred from crossing into Canada because the Canadian customs agent interpreted the American’s intentions not as recreation, but as work. The American didn’t see it that way, nor did he have employment papers, and he reversed course. “Q: Is there going to be legislation or IRB …
Writing out the Problem
8pen is another attempt at bringing touch-typing to mobile devices If you listened real close – in the video – you hear the narrator mention ‘handwriting’. That’s both why 8pens approach is pointed in the right direction and why this version of it misses the mark. Selecting individual characters is terribly tedious. Seriously, these things …
Quirk Persists
A couple of quotes from Tim Quirk’s 10 year old interview the The Onion’s AVClub that came to mind earlier this week. I was mis-remembering them, posting them here so that happens less. “We were always trying to put out slick rock records. Even the crappily recorded stuff on Green Eggs And Crack was our …
eBook Clubbing – Not eBook Borrowing
The promise of ebooks is their inexpensiveness. Their portability. Their ability to make perfect copies of themselves so, you and your friends can read and enjoy the same text simultaneously. If ebook retailers wanted to develop a technology based on the social aspect of books – they’d make it easy to share the text I’m …
Mac App Store is a Proper OS X Package Manager?
My Ubuntu machine and my Nokia N900 both have something of an ‘app store’ in them. If we call an app store – an application that connects to platform-specific software repositories to easily install software, notify me of updates, etc. Though, in the Un*x world, these things are called package managers or application managers. The …
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Terms of Services Kinda Like Open Licenses – But Evil
The Combined Arms Research Library has a good post on the upside of the latest version of Twitter’s terms of service (“Twitter can do WHAT with your photos?“) . The language is very similar to the MIT/X11 License in that the copyright holder is licensing their work to others and the licensees can do as …
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