Seeing Forests

I just took a bike ride but before I left I thought I’d get a GPS app for my iPhone (which took about 5 minutes from formal need recognition to cognitive dissonance resolution).  I opted for the most downloaded app from MotionX.  I was just looking for something to track my route around the lower [...]

I know this was a typo, Turing YP Sites into Recommendations Engines at Screenwerk but I wouldn’t hesitate to say Greg is not only purposefully but accidentally prescient.  His post was precipitated by Sebastien’s post I Have Seen the Future of Local Media (and it is us, if I might say, with a little nod [...]

It’s reassuring to know that the U.S. Army Blue Team at the cyberwar games being held at West Point are using Linux.  If they were using Windows I would be recommending most of us North Americans brush up on Sino-Slavic languages.

Now, THIS is Microlocal (I refuse the term Hyperlocal).  I think this is hysterical and wonderful at the same time.  An ex-colleague @shaderlab tweeted about this (brilliant graphic designer AND extraordinary hacker).  I personally relate because I am looking forward to my neighbors cherry tree coming into fruit and lament the fact that I can’t [...]

As Seb and Greg have pointed out, YellowPages CA is on Twitter.  I know others are tracking this and related memes, such as coupons on Twitter for food, computers and random pig crap.  I do want to follow-up on tracking coupons on Twitter later.  As for tracking directories, first, kudos for getting out there and [...]

I was ruminating as to why skype never became twitter (or facebook for that matter) earlier today.  It’s communication vs community, I understand.   I am more interested in why one takes an existing paradigm to a new medium while the other creates a new paradigm in the new medium.  I was carrying out this [...]