NYT on "ambient awareness," ethereal intimacy, and internet ESP (21)
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I'm reading and re-reading a NYT Magazine piece that explores ambient telepresence, as made mundane by Twitter, Facebook, AIM, and the like. The writer, Clive Thompson, really nailed a number of things I've been struggling to put into words for years. It's a terrific read. This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over ...
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Jason Matthews said:
this is why having a personal [and appropriately-pruned] twitterverse is essential to life in 2008. it's what twitter is for, but it's so hard to explain that you can't condense it down when some noob asks "what's the point of twitter?"
Open Systems, Open Data, Transparency (14)
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Hank Williams points out that the front page of the Angelsoft website is really great. For those that don't know Angelsoft is a free web service that many angel investors use to manage their deal flow. We've looked into using it to manage our deal flow and I wish we could use it, but we don't currently. Hank and his commenters mostly focus on the twittervision style map on the front page that shows the ...
"Right Now, What Are You Doing?" (18)
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Right Now: What Are You Doing? I’ve started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts. But, I still have a long way to go. Long way. Like a lot of people I have a bad habit of CMD-Clicking tab sets in my browser, which then spawns a dozen or more new panes of potential distraction, pointless horseshit, and 10,000 excuses ...
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Andy said:
this is now set to my homepage
John Stuart Mills (1)
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It is hardly possible to overrate the value … of placing human beings in contact with others dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar… Such communication has always been, and particularly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress. [quoted in The Social Origins Of Good Ideas by Ronald Burt]
Weak Form and B-Priority Races (1)
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These 2 charts illustrate what I call weak form quite accurately. The athlete has been reporting feeling rested but not powerful in his Tuesday group rides and weekend races recently. He’s at the end of his season and his last A-priority race is well behind him now. All he’s had left on the calendar were several B+ races. He wanted to do well at these which translates to “resting before each race for 2-3 days.” ...
YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments (46)
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Here's an idea who's time has come: YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox plugin that nukes comments with too many spelling mistakes, weird capitalization or punctuation, and too much cussin'. It works pretty damned well, too. As XKCD has pointed out in the past, YouTube has the worst, just the worst comment-areas on the Internet. YouTube Comment Snob (via Making Light)
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Malcolm said:
awesome idea. Might use this
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Jason Matthews said:
yes please, more of this! needs to be brought to bear on digg and a certain local newspaper's comment section as well.
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Jay said:
Brilliant! :)
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Thomas said:
I'd be interested to see the algorithm powering the Comment Snob. Also would be fascinating to see how this works with other languages besides English.
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ydant said:
So... this would leave one comment on the whole site?
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
Almost the worst. Break.com has the worst comments on internets.
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Jeff Schmidt said:
classic
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MikeD said:
Brilliant! I hope this works for other sites too.
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marya said:
I've seen this story making the rounds and keep forgetting to share it. This is brilliant. I hope more and more sites will adopt this. Also, the Merlin Mann "pause" idea... where your social networking incoming activity gets held for you while you take a little break. Brill.
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Chris said:
Looks fantastic - lots of other applications too!Didn't someone joke a while back about writing an idiot filter for the Internet? I'm glad someone took them seriously.
Change I'd Like To See (9)
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I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the change that is going to come. I am eager to watch Obama speak tonight. I've watched (mostly after the fact via web video) many of the speeches in Denver this week. Frankly, I've not been particularly inspired. Although Bill Clinton's speech last night reminded me why I was such a big supporter of him in his time. I am ...
Change I'd Like To See (7)
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I've got my Obama t-shirt on today and my song of the day is celebrating the change that is going to come. I am eager to watch Obama speak tonight. I've watched (mostly after the fact via web video) many of the speeches in Denver this week. Frankly, I've not been particularly inspired. Although Bill Clinton's speech last night reminded me why I was such a big supporter of him in his time. I am ...
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Forrest said:
What's shocking to me is how closely Fred's policy recommendations resemble McCain's platform, and NOT Obama's. It's not too surprising that Fred doesn't recognize this - he talks of the need to be inspired, the need to hear of "concrete plans" (THIS LATE IN THE GAME!), and despite these, of his ongoing support of the man he knows virtually nothing about, as though they are not mutually exclusive. Objectivity is hard.
The English language in 3000 AD (25)
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Here's a 2003 article by linguist Justin B Rye that looks at how the English has evolved over the centuries, and offers an example of what English could sound look in a thousand years. 2000 AD: We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly... 3000 AD: *ZA kiad w'-exùn ya tijuh, da ya-gAr'-eduketan zA da wa-tAgan lidla, kaz 'ban iagnaran an wa-tAg ...
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ndench said:
Fascinating. Even if you don't read the whole article (I didn't) it's worth skipping to the end and going through the word-by-word analysis of the 300AD version. By the end of it, you'll find you can pronounce it and actually understand what it's saying.
As interesting at middle management for Kottke. (53)
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Joel Spolsky, popular tech writer and founder of Fog Creek Software, has an article in the September 2008 issue of Inc. called How Hard Could It Be: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers. In it, Spolsky details how he came to the idea of building a small company where middle management was unnecessary. He took particular inspiration from an article he read about a GE plant. It was about a General Electric plant in ...
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Tim said:
Interesting post. Kottke missed the fact that Grey Dog passes management of the restaurant onto the customers as well. "Waiters" bring the food out and bus it, but patrons do practically every other task including procuring silverware/napkins, filling water glasses, getting condiments, etc... I suppose it does work and the food is good, but it's certainly not a traditional restaurant experience from the perspective of a patron.
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Ryan said:
Different ways to manage a company. Avoid Middle management/use if sparingly
Evite Alert: Solar Party and You're Invited (1)
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Image source: author "Honey, can you pick up the kids after work today? And don't forget we have our solar party tonight." Solar party? No, this isn't some full-moon-dance-around-in-the-forest type party. This is the modern version of the tupperware party, for those wanting to go green. Sunset Magazine's September issue highlights one family who not only bit the bullet to get panels, but is also throwing parties to get other people to go green. Each ...
Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity (65)
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Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger shared by 13 people Mozilla just ensured I won’t use IE8 because it released Ubiquity. What is it? It’s a box that lets you ask different questions and get answers. It’s sort of like search. But far more powerful. It’s not for non-passionate Internet users. They won’t get it. It takes some time to learn how to use this feature. (To get what I’m talking about when ...
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erbianchi said:
Beuhhh... je crois que je vais abandonner Safari
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Sue said:
There are passionates who don't know python, darn it - there is more to being passionate than being into code.
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Icefreez said:
If you are a keyboard type person you have to try this!
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Jason Nielubowicz said:
If you use Firefox, and you should, you must try out Ubiquity!
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Jean-Baptiste said:
Checkez la video dont il parle
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Matt said:
Already been using this. Already think it's useful, and it will become more so as the community grows and new search operators are developed. I guess I'm "passionate".
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Peter said:
Watch the Vimeo video. Interesting.
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Jefferson Kim said:
Awesome.
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justin said:
ubiquity is going to change the world. and by "the" i mean "my". and by "is going to" i mean "has already started to". this is hot.
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Luís said:
Brutal... Aconselho o vídeo!
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blogan said:
I installed Ubiquity. Looks cool. Now I just need to figure out how to use it. :-)
Tuesday Topsight, August 26, 2008 (1)
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Lots of stuff, some of which I hope to get back to in more detail. Crowd (Re)Sourcing: Spot.us is a new bottom-up journalism site with a novel funding model: community members pool their money to pay journalists to go after a particular topic. That story then shows up on the Spot.us site, and is pushed to various local media outlets as appropriate. This isn't a model for breaking-news journalism, but rather for the deeper ...
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An experiment into connecting the Web with language. It Doesn’t Have to be This Way You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and ...Shared by _dot_ (0) Aaron (7) Abe Serrano (2) absolutely gorgeous (54) adam (1205) Adam (24) Adam Hoyle (4) Adam Javůrek (17) Adam McDonald (30) ademar (1) Adrius Fortytwo (4) Adrock (0) Agatha (21) Alan (1) Alasdair Watson (1) Alberto (10) Alberto Piccini (29) Aleksander (5) Alex Porter (4) alex yu (15) Alexander Goldovsky (8) Allan Espinosa (4) Allison Kipta (60) Alp Çoker (0) AlvarezVal (1) Alvin (0) Amihai (24) Amr Eldib (0) Anatol Pomozov (6) Andre Figueiredo (6) andrea (21) Andrea Baresi (5) andreas (4) Andreas (9) Andrew (7) Andrew (6) Andrew Cornett (1) Andrew Walkingshaw (14) Andrey (16) Andy (10) Aneel (32) angol (21) Anthony Bowyer-Lowe (6) Antoine Brunel (4) apinkpony (13) Archimedes Trajano (13) Armando (14) Arnaud Fischer (7) Art (36) asblogger (36) ashmex (7) asmarin (2) b (73) baber (0) Babychen Mathew (388) Baldgeekinmd (25) Barbara K. Baker (7) Bart (23) bbpnb (0) beatak (16) Beemer (8) Ben (21) Ben Jacob (27) BenQu (8) berivan (2) Berkay (8) Betula (13) Bill Bradford (0) Bill Hartzer (57) Bill HR (8) Billy (2) Binsento (19) bish (17) Bjarte S. Karlsen (10) bombox (6) Brandy (7) Brendan (5) Brendon (2) Brent (2) Brian (0) Brian Antonelli (34) Brian Chappell (11) Brian Del Vecchio (5) Brian Moore (13) brianwyrick (12) Bruce (7) Bruno Melo (5) Buzzworkers (25) Calado (6) Caleb Kimbrough (6) Calvin Robinson (20) Cameron (21) Carlos (16) Carlos Mestre (2) Carlos Santos (0) Cat Chen (1) CB (13) cgsheldon (159) Chad Ayers (4) chad hutchins (1) chewzer (14) Chrigu (12) Chris Gilmore (13) Christiaan (42) Christian (2) Christian Harrington (10) Chrono (4) cjw333 (42) Clay (42) Clément Simon (2) Colm (4) Compuwizard123 (37) ConcertfreakJJ (6) Corvida (95) Craig (4) D. Shaw (14) Daft (38) Damon (13) Daniel R. C. Filho (0) Danielle Fong (5) Danilo (10) darussol (24) Dave (15) Dave Dash (4) David (12) David (11) David (5) David Cooke (4) David P (16) David T. Cole (3) davidex (7) Dean (15) Dean (4) Dedalus (26) Dennis Hostetler (22) Derek (7) derek (10) Deviant (14) dffrnt (28) dieter (0) Dino Quarin (3) donlbe (23) Dr.Eric Fickes (20) Drew (7) druqbar (5) Dylan Thomas (56) e r a (8) Earle Richards (3) Ed H. Chi (11) Eddie (20) Edgar Gonçalves (16) Eishi Kuroda (7) Eitan Burcat (0) Elmer Thomas (142) Elroy (22) emaynard (3) Eran Lahav (0) Eric (2) Eric (17) Erik Arvidsson (4) Ernesto (1) et (12) Eugene Alvin Villar (13) Eugene Ventimiglia (5) evHa (1) evo (11) fakechris (40) fatmike (0) Federico Giacanelli (13) Federico Pistono (5) Fellipe (0) Fenng (57) ferhmo (13) Fernando Costa de Sousa (1) Florian Wagner (1) Folletto Malefico (4) Foomandoonian (26) frajuto (4) Francesco Bertocci (3) Francesco Lodolo (7) Francois (8) Fred Schechter (75) g9yuayon (7) GarthDB (20) Gautham Pai (9) Gema Terrones (6) Geoffrey Wiseman (17) Giacomo Rizzo (8) Glenn Van Hoof (5) Grace Smith (23) Graham (6) Greg Auld (0) Gyuri (9) hadrien (3) heather (17) Henri Losoi (9) History of Blogging (192) Hooman Radfar (9) Howard Rheingold (1) Htoo Tay Zar (4) iAdramelk (1) Iain Wallace (3) Ian Campbell (1) Ian Hughes (2) iandexter (0) Ihar Mahaniok (5) indigo (12) Iñigo C.Garcia (0) insk (1) ionel (9) Ivan Žužak (12) jackysee (6) Jaemi kehoe (21) James (2) James Fuller (20) James Mead (8) james9 (6) Jamie Phelps (6) Jan Schwenzien (8) János B (11) Jason Gilman (104) Jason Joo (76) Jay (59) jayce (60) jbrownphoto (3) jean boechat (16) Jeffrey Blais (48) Jenn Turner (4) Jens (0) Jeppe Toustrup (0) Jere Majava (6) Jeremy (6) jermallie (7) Jesper Kjær Hansen (5) Jesse (7) Jesús Dugarte (3) jgd3 (3) Jill (70) Jim Fuller (6) Jim Kukla (4) jjrussell (12) Joe (108) Joe (7) Joe Laz (8) Joey Gibson (22) Johan Lopes (6) John Carr (1) John Fitzsimmons (3) John Nelson (15) John Schulz (6) John Swords (2) Jojo (49) Jon Erickson (7) Jon Winstanley (1) Jonny M (0) Jordan (411) jose87 (15) Josh (13) Josh (28) jrsmith (8) jsmanrique (2) jtokash (8) Juan Diego (41) judson (9) Jukie (4) june29 (34) Justin (2) Justin (0) justin spratt (3) Kabren Levinson (28) KaffDaddy (5) Kai Chan Vong (11) Kami Huyse (6) Karin (7) Karl Svartholm (6) Kartik Agaram (4) katepe (3) Kathleen Gilroy (11) Katrina (13) Ken (33) Ken (8) Ken Kennedy (11) Kevin Old (36) kgl (21) Kichigai Mentat (59) Kim (14) Krazy (188) Kris (4) Krisalis78 (35) Lance Wig (19) Laughing Squid (18) Leigh Dodds (6) LEMONed (3) leo (8) leonard (14) Leoshcn (3) Leximo (528) Liam Green-Hughes (13) likejazz (29)