“…all lenses distort and shape ‘reality’ to some degree.” – Mark Woods
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
A Message on the Space Telephone Answering Machine
Dave Slusher’s clambake from April 6 2009 accompanied me on my between meeting drives today. Yes, you read that correct – 2009. A podcast he recorded more than a year ago. It’s a great listen. He discusses how the people publishing to services like Twitter don’t own their own words. The company does. And the …
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Demanding
“But imagine an incident far more disruptive and deadly when we really needed to move masses of people quickly. The major transportation and travel institutions that would do the mass movement of people seem to be woefully unprepared and unable to scale up quickly” – David Weinberger Ironic given the internet’s origins as a national …
What if You Forced Apple into the App Store?
If you’ll recall, back when the iPhone was first released, Steve Jobs declared the best way to build apps for it was to build websites. To which John Gruber replied: “If all you have to offer is a shit sandwich, just say it. Don’t tell us how lucky we are and that it’s going to …
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URL Shorteners Are So Last Year
URL shorteners were all the rage in 2008 and 2009 – primarily due to the character constraints within the short messages service that was all the rage in 2008 and 2009 – Twitter. URL shorteners take a long url, for example, this Google Map url: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=the+red+pepper,+plymouth,+mn&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=1854680882426337660&li=lmd&z=14&iwloc=A and transform it into something like: http://tinyurl.com/y3lxdru Every URL …
I Love This iPad Printing Hack
from the form group .com
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, …