The more I read about this the more I’m angered by TechCrunch’s irresponsible reporting on Angel Gate. Unless, and I seriously challenge him to because he can’t, Michael Arrington can produce substantial evidence that collusion did occur he should issue an apology. I have every reason to believe that Michael showed up uninvited to a [...]
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Seems like this year is going to be the year we find out whether print media is about to taken by a revolution as big as the rise of digital music players was for music. Although print may be an industry in decline, we are confronted with more reading than ever before. The only difference [...]
I’ve never been a fan of windows. Switching to a mac was definitely one of the best things that I’ve ever done in my life. It opened my life to a world of stress free computing, until Leopard. I still like the mac and I think the fonts and visuals are nice but I’ve also [...]
Founders at Work certainly lives up to expectations. If you’re looking for inspiration on how people bootstrapped themselves in the tech sector to wild success here it is. Now, as a chronicle of the nascent IT sector at this point in history, there are a lot of people who were at the right place at [...]
2009-01-27 ::
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social media + social networking + technology + thinking
The Anatomy of Social Change in the Information Age
The Anatomy of Social Change in the Information Age
Technological advances radically alter dynamics of social change. The election of President Obama is a watershed moment that represents an evolution over a decade in the making. For the first time, social networks were mobilized on a scale that silenced critics of the technology’s limited utility to society or the “realness” of online social connections. [...]
The other day I read “Time Machine” by H.G. Wells using Stanza. I’ve always had my doubts about digital books simply for the fact that it simply doesn’t “feel” the same. Plus, my experience with digital content is most with made for the web content such as blogs. It simply isn’t the same level of [...]
2008-11-09 ::
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blog + social media + social networking + technology + thinking
The Obama Campaign Significance
The Obama Campaign Significance
Barack Obama ’s successful bid for president is probably just as significant as having our first (at least openly) multi-racial president (remember his mother is white and he only met his father once or twice). He changed the nature of campaigning for good and finally delivered on the promise of information technology driven movements. Just [...]
After watching Lost the other day I was taken by all the similarities that the island of Lost and its characters have with an IT company. Jack Sheppard as the CEO A solid runner who came up in the ranks starting with the code. He’s a hands on type manager who’s not afraid to [...]
Here’s yet another gratuitous bandwagon blog post on Google Apps. We’re starting to see an explosion of “sandbox platforms” for third-party developers. Basically, you get a constrained subset of common features in exchange for access to a beautiful playing ground with lots of toys and playmates. We have mini platforms such as Amazon’s web services [...]
I decided to subscribe to a bunch of Cocoa mailing lists, as in Mac OS X cocoa framework in preparation of the hairy ride I’d be subjected to as I try to come to grips with Objective-C and all the other technology required to master development for the Apple platform. I use Gmail exclusively and [...]