Let’s move tweeting off Twitter
Blogging, emailing and messaging aren’t owned by anybody. Tweeting is owned by Twitter. That’s a problem. In all fairness, this probably wasn’t the plan when Twitter’s founders started the service. But that’s where they (and we) are now. Twitter has become de facto infrastructure, and that’s bad, because Twitter is failing. Getting 20,500,000 Google Image...
World wide puddle
Nicholas Carr is ahead of his time again. The Big Switch nailed computing as a utility, long before “the cloud” came to mean pretty much the same thing. His latest book, The Shallows, explored the changes in our lives and minds caused by moving too much of both online — again before others began noticing how...
A strange Twitter double-fail
This makes no sense. If you can’t read the above, it says “Sorry! You’ve hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon.” That’s above a message that says ”This user does not exist.” The user in question is @DickHardt, who does exist, as you can see. Twitter has frozen me out, so I can’t check shit, but...
When Josh Spector posted a link to this commercial…
…it was before the triple disaster hit Japan.
Now visit his blog and watch this commercial and see how powerful it is now.
Thanks Josh.
And thanks to Ernesto Diaz for tweeting about it.
The Connect.Me Blog
With Connect.Me finally having a public-facing beta signup process, even though we’re otherwise still in stealth, we’ve started a Connect.Me blog to start explaining what Connect.Me the company is about. The first post explains our overall focus on personal data … Continue reading →
Bring on The Live Web
I first heard about the “World Live Web” when my son Allen dropped the phrase casually in conversation, back in 2003. His case was simple: the Web we had then was underdeveloped and inadequate. Specifically, it was static. Yes, it changed over time, but not in a real-time way. For example, we could search in...
Perfection vs. Mastery
This isn’t a retweet so much as a “reblog” of Sarah Allen’s post about perfection vs. mastery and the 5 minute video there (originally from Abhishek Parolkar). It’s very moving.
I am so ready to get rid of these
I have used Akismet blog spam filtering on this blog for several years now, but at least one or two blog spams get through every day and generate an email like the following:
A new comment on the post #365 “True Data Portability” is waiting for your approval
http://www.equalsdrummond.name/?p=365
Author : Edmundo Bohne (IP: 200.141.202.162 , 200.141.202.162)
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Solved Science Theater 2010
This morning, while freezing my way down 8th Avenue to Piccolo on 40th to pick up a couple of cappuccinos, I paused outside the New York Times building to admire its stark modern lobby as KNX radio delivered the latest storm news from Los Angeles through my phone’s earbuds. In the midst of reports of...
The Internet doesn’t do this
The above, in order (1,2,3) is what I went through this morning when I searched for “emancipay” on Twitter. Not knocking Twitter here. I am knocking the fact that we haven’t come up with the open Internet-based (rather than silo-based) way of microblogging. Yet. But that’s what I’m hanging out in New York talking to...
The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge
The moment I read the name of that TechCrunch article by Devin Coldewey I was certain it would articulate the subliminal feeling I’ve been having ever since I bought my iPhone that I am committing less and less to memory and relying more and more on external stores. Devin does a wonderful job of explaining...
