May 2012
7 posts
Is facebook evil?
http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-isn%E2%80%99t-making-us-lonely—it%E2%80%99s-m…
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounces U.S.... →
inothernews:
Maybe you can endorse Mitt Romney now.
Old School MaBell Telephone Sounds. This'll Take...
Started thinking Mother’s Day used to be the busiest day of usage for the Bell System. Heres a video I found in search of some of those old guilt inducing ads to get you to call your Mother.
April 2012
21 posts
At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero
via nytimes.com
Coffee Table with Scrath Covers: snowman & duck
Taken at Wormhole
Breaking NEWS Traffic Signals down on Lahser Road
Taken at Lahser and Civic Center
Just The Facts, Jack. Just The Facts.
parislemon:
I used to be addicted to my RSS reader. Now I basically never use it anymore. I’m not sure the last time I had Google Reader open, but it’s just the backend for Reeder now. And even that is just my “catch all” to check quickly at the end of the day.
Instead, I use Twitter, and Facebook, and Tumblr, and Flipboard, and Pulse, and Techmeme to catch up on the news. I used to think I’d...
Must read. Gotta see this flick.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/how-my-aunt-marge-ended-up-in-the-…
WatchThis is my crib. It’s not much but it’s mine.
NBA on Gtab, NHL on PC
“I think that people seem less and less concerned about where their information...”
– The New York Times’ David Carr on curation, crowdsourcing, and the future of journalism – a must-read.
For a related read, see Clay Johnson’s excellent The Information Diet.
(via explore-blog)
Is Today the Day I get a tumblr Follower?
I deleted my first tumblr a few years back it had 160. Now this new one can’t buy one!
February 2012
51 posts
Liveblogging The iPad Home Button Revelation
parislemon:
Just to follow up:
LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. etc, etc, etc, etc…
Which is more likely:
Apple pre-leaking a major design change in a press invite image — or — Everyone reading way too much into what is essentially an advertisement?
There will still be a home button. Take my word for it, or wait for The Wall Street Journal to break the news in a week when they see it...
CanIStream.It: Search Netflix, Hulu, Vudu,...
Can I Stream It? Let’s say you are a regular techie with a Netflix account, a Hulu account, and since you only shop online, you also have an Amazon Prime account. Now let’s say you want to know if a movie you’re dying to watch is available to be streamed instantly, using any of these accounts. With CanIStream.It, you can search across all of these services and pick the...
Home via Cowbird →
The NYTimes had a piece in the decoder blog about this new site. I applied for inclusion. Maybe it will be my new HOME? If they take me?
“Telling stories on Cowbird asks a little more of you than dashing off tweets...”
– Pull Up a Mouse and Stay a While - NYTimes.com
“And Brian Calhoun, who lives near Orlando, would love to see a personal digital...”
– Consumers want USB, 4G, lower price for next iPad – USATODAY.com
Why Mountain Lion’s AirPlay Mirroring Is...
One of the features that immediately caught my eye about Mountain Lion was AirPlay Mirroring. As I noted yesterday, this offers a powerful presentation tool for business users as well as a great classroom addition for teachers and trainers. Of course, it’s also a great entertainment solution and one that has some dramatic advantages over AirPlay Mirroring on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Those...
Fred Wilson to Media Execs: ‘Everybody, and I Mean...
Last month, he seemed frustrated, tweeting out “#screwcable” when a feud between MSG and Time Warner Cable forced Mr. Wilson to consume pirated content if he wanted to see the (pre-Linsanity) Knicks. But during yesterday’s talk, Mr. Wilson seemed more convinced of the universality of the condition. “Making everybody a criminal is not the way to do this,” he told the crowd in an impassioned...
Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television —...
BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen demoed his P2P live streaming protocol at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit on Monday, which he said could potentially stream live video to millions of computers with no central infrastructure. Cohen said that the protocol could potentially be used for video conferencing, live streams of video game tournaments or even live sports events. “My goal here is to kill...
Roku Plays Nice With Cable Guys - Lauren Goode -...
You’ve probably heard a lot about cord-cutting in recent years — though the data on this trend is still somewhat contradictory. With cable companies launching streaming apps, and streaming device makers looking to cable content, both sides of the TV-content coin are acknowledging the same thing: We’re not entirely sure yet that cord-cutting is a real phenomenon, there’s evidence that consumers...
Hamilton and the Philosopher's Stone | Hamilton's...
via vice.com
Now playing on Internet TV. Another example of how my horizons have been expanded by the fact I don’t have a cable clicker anymore. More info on this dude from this NYTimes article
http://cmp.ly/0 →
Just a dude blogging. No hookups or ties to the things I post about. I am Clean!
TODAY IS THE DAY TO KILL ACTA (Cory Doctorow ) →
unexpectedtech:
Today is the day of global protest against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty negotiated in secret (even parliaments and other legislatures weren’t allowed to see the the working drafts), and which many governments (include the American government) are planning to adopt without legislative approval or debate. ACTA represents a wish-list of...
Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Ratio of Mobile to Fixed Line Phone Subscriptions Around the World
Mouse around, click about or visit one of the links below for a larger, more user friendly size.
Via Slate and the New America Foundation.
Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site →
unexpectedtech:
Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.
“CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.
The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an 22 hours. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service...
Music Labels’ Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated...
Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing. Piracy, they claim, has been the industry’s undoing, accounting for an over 50% drop in sales since 1999 (the industry likes to discount the impact of legal...
Instagram Version 2.1 →
parislemon:
instagram:
Good news! Instagram v2.1 is now available in the App Store! Here’s what’s new:
New Feature: Lux
We’ve given you a new way to instantly transform the look and feel of your photos. In just one tap, Lux works its magic by making your photos more vibrant and bringing out details you couldn’t…
Lux is great. Fantastic upgrade.
Smart TVs cause a net neutrality debate in S....
Remember that whole network neutrality fight in the U.S. from 2009 and 2010? Well back then the issue was over applications hogging precious bandwidth, and ISPs hoping to charge the likes of Google, Netflix and others for the increasing traffic running across wireline and wireless pipes. Korea Telecom in South Korea has taken an interesting twist on the idea, and decided to block Samsung’s Smart...
Boxee: TV Tuned into Your Life
via youtube.com No matter what device you use to connect to the rich, luscious pastures of internet TV. Be aware that after you “Cut the Cord” a grandiose expanse of content and possibilities await you.