Posted in Audio, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, People, Social Software on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Marco Arment on Planet Money This is a great interview. The Planet Money guys are brilliant and Marco gets right in sync with their style. Marco made and sells one of my all time favorite utilities: Instapaper. In a nutshell, if I start reading an article on my computer and want to finish it or [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Jan 19th, 2012 3 Comments »
Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA Pogue lays out the situation calmly and clearly. Its worth a read. Some people are O.K. with the goals of the bills, acknowledging that software piracy is out of control; they object only to the bills’ approaches. If the entertainment industry’s legal arm gets out of control, they say, [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software, Video on Jan 18th, 2012 6 Comments »
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. There’s no doubt piracy is wrong but having Congress, many of whom still think the internet is a “series of tubes” design laws to protect copyrighted material maybe isn’t the best way to go about stopping it. fightforthefuture.org/pipa [via The Kid [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software, Stories on Jan 13th, 2012 3 Comments »
Pictory: Something to write home about There’s a new issue of Pictory out and it’s great. Some day I’m going to submit things to this most excellent photo site (I keep saying that and not doing it for some reason). [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Adventure, Climbing, Social Software on Dec 10th, 2011 No Comments »
On Ledge and Online: Solitary Sport Turns Social Social media and handheld devices for posting is invading what used to be solitary adventure sports. Many have mixed feelings about this. As one who posts hike progress on Path and Instagram who am I to say that this is a bad idea. It will be interesting [...]
Posted in Disability, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Social Software on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Introducing Memo Touch, a tablet designed for elders with short-term memory loss While the implementation may not be the best, this is a killer good idea and it allows family members to log into the account and set up reminders. Of course, someone might write an app like this for iOS and then one could [...]
Posted in Collections, iPhone Photography, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
1000memories A free social site for organizing old family photographs and building relationships between them. It even has a family tree/genealogy component that allows you to build familial relationships into the stored images. There’s an iPhone app called ShoeBox for scanning/photographing and organizing content for 1000memories. This actually looks pretty good and I might give [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync Brent Simmons has written an excellent piece on proposed changes to Google Reader and how they might affect clients like Reeder which piggy back off it. I use Google Reader to catalog and organize my various RSS feeds and have been since I dropped NetNewsWire (which Brent [...]
Posted in Collections, Photographers, Social Software on Oct 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Flickr user Ewald Mario Bauer has assembled a number of flickr galleries which are collections of images that others have taken and allowed to be included in the galleries of other flickr members. Ewald Mario Bauer’s Flickr Galleries Note the page numbering on the bottom, there are 14 pages of them. Frankly, I never looked [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Social Software on Sep 27th, 2011 5 Comments »
Instagram 2.0 review: Insta-grumble I agree, the recent big Instagram upgrade was terrible, images aren’t saved into the main library anymore, the filters suck, and the entire operation of the app has been slowed down and downgraded. I’m going to go back to using Path a bit more and I’m not crazy about its UI [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Video on Sep 25th, 2011 No Comments »
What we learned from 5 million books Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel do a talk at TED about what they did with a huge amount of digitized book data from Google. This is a fascinating talk and worth watching. You can mess with it yourself with Google’s Books Ngram Viewer. As an example I [...]
Posted in Animation, Music, Smigly, Social Software, Video on Sep 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Alan Mezquida and smigly do it again.
Posted in Humor, Movies, People, Social Software on Sep 24th, 2011 No Comments »
David Rees over at Good posted a wonderful piece on our fascination with celebrities and how social networking on the internet interacts with it: How Tall Is Jake Gyllenhaal?. I’m not the sort of person who thinks much about the height of celebrities. (I’ve always assumed most famous people are about seven feet tall.) The [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Landscape, Social Software on Sep 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
The Japanese Garden in Van Nuys, California (just over the hill from west LA) is actually part of a sewage treatment plant. The garden that the water runs through is built as a traditional Japanese garden with lanterns, manicured plants, rock gardens, koi in the water, a lili pond, ducks, egrets and more. It’s actually [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion, Process, Social Software on Sep 21st, 2011 3 Comments »
I wrote my first post on the Netflix fiasco (Netflix has made a big mistake and it’s not only in pricing) the morning I got Reed Hastings’ poorly written email about their upcoming changes. Since then I’ve calmed down and thought more about it. I’ve also read dozens of posts about it, many of them [...]
Posted in Movies, Opinion, Process, Social Software on Sep 19th, 2011 15 Comments »
I want to preface this with the fact that I was a late comer to Netflix but thanks to my stepdaughter Jessica I’ve used and loved it for three years now. Given that I watch a lot of movies, both on DVD from Netflix and streaming from them through an AppleTV their recent price increase, [...]
Posted in Social Software, Video on Sep 8th, 2011 4 Comments »
Verbling: It’s a Chatroulette for Learning Languages Verbling, a Y Combinator company, takes the concept of video chat with randomly selected partners and gives it a wholly worthwhile purpose. Using Verbling, you can connect to native speakers of another language who also want to learn the language you speak natively. For example, I speak English, [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, Social Software on Aug 24th, 2011 1 Comment »
What is Bitcoin? Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum at NPR’s Planet Money have a new piece on Bitcoin a digital virtual currency that’s fascinating. I posted about another piece All Things Considered ran on this and related topics earlier in the summer: Silk Road: Not Your Father’s Amazon.com.
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