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How you decide to communicate…
“How you decide to communicate is a fundamental choice in the creation of the most prosperous economy your life can provide” – Tyler Cowen, ‘Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World’
Find ‘Twitter’, Replace with ‘Second Life’
In the past week both Apple and Twitter have carpet bombed on their respective development communities. As I’ve written about previously – I’ve been off Twitter now for nearly 2 months. This week an interesting switch flipped in my head. When I hear ‘Twitter’, my head replaces it with another corporate site I have little …
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Sing it with me, “Copying is not theft”
‘Copying Is Not Theft’ released by QuestionCopyright.org Download your copy from archive.org I see copyright (ownership) & licensing (usage) as 2 separate issues and think a we’d all be better off if more things were placed under the
Considering His Lyrics
For decades, I’ve been a fan of Tim Quirk’s lyrics. He has a way of expressing the melancholy of defeat with cutting brevity and a touch of wordplay. ‘Topless at the Arco Arena’ rolled through the iTunes this afternoon and I stopped to savor these three lines: Some rise by sin, Some by virtue fall, …
Safari is Apple’s Middleware
“And, obviously, such a meta-platform would be out of Apple’s control. Consider a world where some other company’s cross-platform toolkit proved wildly popular. Then Apple releases major new features to iPhone OS, and that other company’s toolkit is slow to adopt them.” – John Gruber Substitute “toolkit” for “website”. Now, remember when Jobs proudly announced: …
“…in order for a cap and trade scheme or a carbon tax to yield significant declines in our consumption of hydrocarbon fuels, policies would have to be geared to push the price of oil to at least $100/bbl. Meanwhile, however, our economy has done a tremendous job of becoming more energy efficient…” – Scott Grannis
How do I make a contribution to the U.S. government?
“Citizens who wish to make a general donation to the U.S. government may send contributions to a specific account called ‘Gifts to the United States.’ This account was established in 1843 to accept gifts, such as bequests, from individuals wishing to express their patriotism to the United States. Money deposited into this account is for …
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“YouTube is behaving like a television network and not like a tube for you.” – Christian Sandvig
The Apple iPad is an Ambient Information Device
Update 26 May 2010. Video proof of my position. iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. The keyboard + dock for my iPad arrived today – which marks what I’m considering the start of my actual evaluation of the device’s strengths. The Apple iPad is quite comfortable in the dock, and both sit quite …
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