Old calculators and future steampunk
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge Originally uploaded by blackbeltjones Heh. My Dad also had some of these types of clunker calculators. Uh, I...
Category: The Narrative
Someone has noticed what we’re doing
If we can toot our own horn, Ewan at SMS Text News gave Nokia kudos for our blogger outreach work. He’s written an article about how different device manu...
Michael Arrington gets sequenced: His 23andMe DNA Results
I haven’t been paying much attention to 23andMe. I heard about them, but have yet to dig deep into what they are up to. To me, it’s bringing genetic...
Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!)
I stumbled upon (pushed by alexdc, I think) this old article, by Chris Allen, from early 2005 about the maxing-out of social connections (link below). What stri...
Cringley waxes anti-social
I haven’t been up on my Cringely, but reading one of my Tweeps, Oliver, led me to his recent commentary on social networks. He makes a reference to the ri...
It’s about the stories
Most of you know that I am working on setting up the Nokia social media communications site (uh, a blog for now), to be called Nokia Conversations. One thing th...
Ty Burr on ‘10,000 BC’: Yabba-dabba-don’t
Ty Burr is great. Link: Yabba-dabba-don’t – The Boston Globe: How can a film that features a poorly shot attack by giant tree-climbing killer chicke...
‘Facebook fatigue’?
While I am part of the Facebook bashers (well, bashers of the current Facebook craze), I always feel that I am dead wrong, since so many folks are still signing...
Twitter Stats: Relationship Distribution
Finally found out that Twitter has been publishing a few stats on usage.* Pretty interesting. One that got me was the distribution of how many people per user i...
Notes on notes of essays someone else never wrote
I’ve heard a lot about Matt Web through those closest to him, but never really met him. Matt is half of an interesting and insane design duo, Schulze &...