Ty Burr says ‘Blade Runner’ is better than ever, in The Boston Globe
So far, Ty Burr has never disappointed me. What he likes, I do. What he doesn’t, same here. Now he mentions the latest Blade Runner release (see link belo...
Category: The Narrative
Do community tools mix with scientific papers?
I’ve been doing some reading on Open Access Publishing, providing free public access to scientific papers. The two publishers I know the best are Public L...
Mowser get me thinking of emerging markets again
Previously, I mentioned Mowser, the mobile-savvy transcoder by Russ Beattie. It’s really cool that he has so much traffic. But, it’s even cooler to ...
It always take two failures to make a real problem
A CEO (who has now moved on to greater things) of a large and popular Web service once was relating to me a tale of one of his major embarrassing outages and me...
Twitter SMS quotas
Got the following message from Twitter the other day: “You have 10 incoming sms updates remaining this week. Try receiving unlimited updates at m.twitter....
Comment on: “The Demise of Mobile???” at Blue Flavor
I was trying to leave a comment on this site and was having a hard time. So I decided to post it here. "Good set of comments. Buiding ovi.com for Nokia, I ...
Google’s latest play
Gosh. I just need to read up on this. But what I’ve read so far makes me feel good in many ways. In other ways, it makes me feel bad. 🙂 There’s a lo...
Kids and phones and IM and SMS
A colleague was mentioning how his (American) daughters were getting all caught up with Webkinz: “Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with ...
Ramblings on noise: Our senses
Yeah, the whole noise thing is still bouncing in my head. I was dabbling with some visualization ideas this week and it brought back the whole noise thought. I ...
Why doesn’t NASA go crowdsourcing?
I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than th...