People who use Twitter, a service which posts short updates to the Web and cell phones, love nothing more than to Twitter about themselves, and the medium they've so enthusiastically adopted. If you go by the Twitterers' collective reporting, every event, from an earthquake in Los Angeles to terrorist bombings in Mumbai, is more notable for the fact that people are writing about it on Twitter than for its inherent interest as news. The dominant ...

I’m with you on this one Jason. Randall Stross’ article (it’s really an editorial, but not marked as such) rips into Tesla as “not much more than a functioning concept car” and suggests it would be foolish of the government to grant it a loan under a 2007 Federal loan program designed specifically to encourage development of vehicles that conserve fuel. Stross’ argument is that Tesla only makes cars for the rich (their first model ...

It's been a long time coming, but after dabbling with touch on the midrange 5800, Nokia has finally brought a touchscreen to its brand new flagship S60 smartphone, the N97. But it's not quite a full dive into touch—there's still a horizontal QWERTY keyboard hidden below the 3.5" 640x360 resistive touchscreen and accesable via a smooth 30° flip mechanism. The N97 will run an even further touch-enhanced Symbian OS, S60 v5, which features the 5800's ...

Just sent this to Jason’s List… felt it was important enough to publish on the web. No comments here please… if you want to comment do so on your blog please. best jcal Location: CalaCompoud, Brentwood, CA Monday, November 30th, 3:01PM PST. Word Count: 2,416 Jason’s List Subscriber Count: 11,049 List management: http://tinyurl.co... Message type: The Future; Bad Journalism Forwarding instructions: Everyone Republishing: PLEASE DO NOT REPRINT WITHOUT PERMISSION Today, Randall Stross takes apart Tesla ...

It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share snippets of your life online - a photo here, a Stumble there, a tweet, a Digg, etc. However, the rise of ...

Google has long been rumored to be working on an operating system to compete with Microsoft’s Windows. When they launched their browser product, Chrome, in September, we noted that it essentially was Google’s operating system — a UI for the OS that the web is becoming. “If the web is the operating system of the future, as many contend, a browser designed specifically with running web applications in mind will be hugely important and potentially ...

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11.23.08:Bikes are breaking the chainEase of use could help industry's popularity surgeIf you've ever been riding down the street and had your pants cuff ripped asunder, there may be a revolution at hand. Trek Bicycle is part of a movement to bury the finger-pinching, pants-munching, rust-prone sprocket and chain, and usher in an era of belt-driven bikes that might have the inventors of the self-propelled transportation Schwinning in their graves.Wisconsin-based Trek ...

Although somewhat belatedly, here is a brief discussion on what has happened since I finished building Lobsang. The system has been very stable and reliable. It is quiet. And it performs well. There have been a couple of niggles with the software installation that I would like to mention and also briefly I wanted to cover partitioning as a reader requested it. Software As with most of my computers I installed Ubuntu Linux on this ...

Another thing I have a vague recollection of was an announcement in August or September that Asus was going to offer an Eee PC with a built-in EVDO modem and a service plan. This started the thread about $99 netbooks. The product was supposed to ship in October but I can't find any evidence of it. Do you know what happened? Did they ship? If not, is it still planned?

Here's part two of my Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide -- wherein I list the bestselling items that have been reviewed here in the past twelve months. Today, it's fiction. Don't miss yesterday's Kids' stuff and stuff about kids post, too! (Note that some of these titles appeared on yesterday's kids' list -- I wasn't sure how to handle cross-referencing for items that qualified for more than one list, so I just duplicated them for ...

This is how keyboardr.com feels like on the iPhone (in this case my iPod Touch 2G). keyboardr.com does not have an iPhone specific version, yet. Usually websites try to create iPhone specific website which avoid, having the user to zoom. In keyboardr the zooming is actually great. I think the whole site in general works great with the iPhone. Of course, there is a lot to improve for the iPhone like improving readability and decreasing ...

The competition for the next wave of enterprise computing has heated up since Microsoft announced its Windows Azure strategy a month ago. While the jury is out in some quarters about Microsoft’s ability to actually deliver the reliability, security, and even the interoperability that is promised, the timetable has accelerated the plans of competitors and forced some to define themselves in terms of the cloud at a dangerous moment. Sun Microsystems has been under particular ...

Apartment Therapy found a fantastic LIFE magazine photo series from the 1970s of rock stars at home with their folks. Above is Frank Zappa. Also included are the likes of David Crosby, Grace Slick, Donovan, Jackson 5, Elton John, and Eric Clapton. "Look! 70's Rock Musicians and Their Parent's Homes" (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)

Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree. Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking important world news. If I didn’t hear about something important happening by watching my Twitter stream, it’s the first place I go ...

Just as I finished editing my Inbound Marketing piece I quickly scanned Google Reader and realized that David Meerman Scott and I were writing about one and the same thing. Except his post title is: Downsized? Fired? Here are the new rules of finding a job. Yes, the parallels are striking.; If you find yourself on the job market, you have a a tough sell in today’s economy, when US unemployment rolls surged to the ...

If Twitter wants to make money, it needs to do to others what they've been trying to do to Twitter. That is, extend its lead in market share by solving the problem of cross-platform micromessaging. With activity streams from Facebook, Microsoft, MySpace, FriendFeed, and a score of smaller players flowing over RSS, XMPP, and HTTP Push, Twitter can consolidate its power by cloning the best of its competitors' offerings. Key to this jujitsu is the ...

As I mentioned here, I’m exploring the viability of Python as a way of programming the newly-announced Microsoft cloud platform, Azure. Partly that’s because I love Python, but mainly it’s because I believe that the culture surrounding Python and other open source dynamic languages can fruitfully cross-pollinate with the culture that infuses Microsoft’s platforms. One of the reasons these cultures face each other across a great divide is religious attachment to low-level operating systems. In ...

President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time in the United States to conserve energy. Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof that this reduces energy consumption. It also turns out that this practice could be wasteful, a bit annoying, and a lot of people, including Obama, want to get rid of it. A study in Indiana, a state that recently started DST, showed ...

Photo: Sue Miller Chicago is going through somewhat of a renaissance following the win for hometown hero Barack Obama. The Windy City is entering the race for the 2016 Summer Olympics, new skyscrapers are being erected and, most surprisingly, even Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy seems happy. Tweedy, Obama’s “friend for years” and frequent performer on the rally circuit, told the New York Times “I think people really do enjoy the idea that we’re living in ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Gateway Arch by docdevore For the past five years my browser home page has been set to either Google.com or iGoogle. (I briefly flirted with the New York Times as my default but have integrated their feeds everywhere else.) This week I switched it to Gmail. With all of the features they have been adding lately, particularly through their Labs, Gmail is unquestionably my virtual Swiss Army Knife. It is not ...