“But in the meantime the Net’s going to look way too much like the last days of TV. Which it will be.” – Doc Searls This morning, I heard a broadcast radio discussion on the future of television . First off – the host made the assumption that cable television is some sort of necessity. …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Second Guessing Social Media Buttons
“What if I had put Myspace links on, or Digg links on my stories in 2005? When you go back through the archive those would seem crazy, almost defacing of the content. Don’t those things belong in toolbars or bookmarklets?” – Dave Winer And that’s just one problem with the proliferation of ‘twitter this’, ‘Facebook …
Good Bye Neon. Thank You.
Moments ago, the tow truck from New Gate School dragged away our 13 year old Dodge Neon. This is the car Jen and I bought days before we were married and was our only car for 9 years. Moving across 3 states. At least 1 cross-country drive. More iPod adapters than I can remember. Cleaning …
Heavy
“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds…Our minds, no less than our bodies, require periods of fasting.” – Alaine de Botton
Shortly Over Part 2: Twitter Returns Long URLs
After maintaining years of awkward, inconsistent URL shortening behavior because of some vague argument about SMS capabilities – Twitter has announced links passed through their service may or may not be shortened to t.co. “A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed …
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Dan Pink on Incentives and Work.
A great talk & animation on motivation for all the slower, smaller, better-smelling horses out there.
Every Proper Noun is Free Marketing
This is simply sandbox to flush out this idea. I promise more incoherent ramblings and typos than usual. Scrabble now allows proper nouns in some game play. Seems like a great opportunity for Mattel to sell double word scores to the highest bidder. If every proper noun is marketing, who are you marketing right now? …
A Long March
For the past 10 years (as long as I’ve been noticing) March has been tough month for me. It’s as if my mind and body finally succumb to the winter’s weight. The smallest things start to seem overwhelming and their failure inevitable. Rather than magical place full of opportunity and wonderfulness, the world seems trite, …
Sturgeon’s Law, Now Recursive
Theodore Sturgeon is credited with saying, “90% of everything is crud” In this age of always-on, real-time, democratized media there’s so much more of everything – 90% isn’t what it used to be. Even if we determine the remaining 10% of everything isn’t complete and utter trash. We still need to cull for relevance, importance, …
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It seems to me, that like XML and violence, the world would be a better place with less Javascript.