Not only are they doing a good job, but it’s scaringly real
A while back I found out via the Twitter site that the Mars Phoenix Lander had a Twitter channel. I don’t know, but maybe at the time it didn’t seem...
Category: The Narrative
Rough analysis of start-dates for and topical categories of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs (BONUS: indie-journalists)
I found the article in my ‘to read’ pile the other day. The Guardian, back in March, wrote an article listing the 50 most influential blogs in the w...
Billion-dollar life sciences bill passes Massachusetts Senate
Does Massachusetts need a stimulus in biotech? I don’t think so. It’s doing pretty well. This bill sounds like a bone thrown to biotech biz leaders ...
Alex bopped me with a baton – lifestreams, semantics, and tapping the next person
Henriette Weber Kristiansen and Duarte Velez Grilo have a little show called Geek Army Knife. I see it as a wander through the collective mind, talking to inter...
Does Anyone Use Phone Booths Anymore?
A long forgotten phoneboothOriginally uploaded by schickr PhoneBoy asks this question (link below). Indeed, I think the folks who have been ramping down their p...
What’s it with movie super-heroes sulking on building ledges?
Heh. I’ve noticed recurring imagery of super-heroes crouched on a building rooftop, on the ledge, usually in the rain, usually moping. It is also usually ...
Awesome Clay Shirky interview (with a side-comment that cuts too close)
Glenn Fleishman did a great interview (back in March) of Clay Shirky on the topics in Clay’s new book ‘Here Comes Everybody’. Clay, as always,...
Plaxo is acquired by Comcast, Zyb by Vodafone
Ok. This is last week’s news. But, I am not seeing much discussion about this. Why? Mashable picked it up right away. But not one person commented on Plax...
Mechstreams – when machines start lifestreaming with us
Ok, so lifestreaming is the rage of ’08, what with SocialThing! and Friendfeed and all similar services hogging all the attention. But I also see somethin...
Hm… 2Mpix trumps 5Mpix?
What do you make of this? From Flickr: Camera Finder