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Tag Archives: tech
Dear Verizon: Make Microsoft fix Windows Mobile, or I’m switching to AT&T
I’ve been using PDA’s since 3 months after the first Palm debuted. Love ‘em. Loved the Palm. Because I worked at Verizon (then AirTouch), I was able to get my hands on one of the very first smart phones, which … Continue reading
Good Will… Gathering?
One of the best rants in movie history is, I believe, the one that Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) lets rip on a recruiter from the NSA. Partly I love it because it’s delivered in the wonderful South Boston … Continue reading
There’s no gold in them thar hills
I recently blogged about the value of virtual stuff in virtual worlds and games, and (tangentially) on gold farming (also called RMT, the Real Money Trade). Again, for the uninitiated, gold farming involves playing a game to earn in-game wealth … Continue reading
Gamerspace is somewhere between the size of Granada and Croatia
By way of Terra Nova, I found the Development Informatics (DI) working paper, “Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on ‘Gold Farming’: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games.” Quick definition for y’all non-grognards: gold … Continue reading
Public then edit
I was on vacation last week. The beach in SC. Lovely, thank you, but very windy the last couple days. Good for surfers, bad for families with kids. I try to read one non-fiction book while on vacation (along with … Continue reading
Singularity follies
I saw Disney/Pixtar’s “WALL-E” yesterday with my son. Fun movie, excellent animation, some good laughs. A bit heavy-handed on the overarching messages about society side… but that’s Disney for ya. B+ Based on the film, I was going to write … Continue reading
Comforthood
Todays journey of metaphoric bliss: Alzheimer, buses, jewelry, YouTube. Patients with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive troubles who wander out of their nursing homes are a danger to themselves, of course. And with short-term memory issues, folks can go as little … Continue reading
Is the Web convex or concave? A meditation on dillweediness
[Note note: the draft of this post was written months ago. I'm not sick anymore, thanks for asking.] Note: I am sick as heck. Bad cold. This is Day 4 of what, at work, is being called affectionately, “The Pox.” … Continue reading
MyPyramid
At work, I get to do some research about the information industry and related technology because, well, libraries are deeply involved in the mediasphere. So that’s cool. And last week I was reading up on teens (god, I hate the … Continue reading
Trends: neither heads nor tails
Fascinating post titled, “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” at Fast Company. In it, author Clive Thompson focuses on work done by Duncan Watts (a Columbia U. network-theory scientist on sabbatical to do work for Yahoo!) that shows how trends move … Continue reading
Turing vs. John Henry
For the record, I think Kevin Kelly is a genius and often am extremely gratified to find him exploring weird, wild areas of technology and the mind. Even when I disagree with him, it’s usually on small points or on … Continue reading