May 2013
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Notes from #SOTN13
Hashtags being used: #SOTN13 #SOTN #SOTN_live Gigi keynote “Italian is the official language of music.” (It’s certainly far more musical than English. No offense.) David Snowden (@Snowded) keynote Responses to change: fascism or anarchy “We need a few more ecologists around.” Not just engineers. Wisdom of crowds is too often “tyranny of herds.” We need Continue reading
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Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned
[Trieste, Italy, 12:02am Friday 21 May 2013 — As I say in the comments here, Airbnb has responded to this post, explaining that a bug in the system was involved. While that might patch Airbnb’s relationship with my wife and I, the bridge remains burned with other customers as long as Airbnb’s Verified ID system retains Continue reading
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2013_05_27 link pile
The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual, by Pete Mortensen in Co.Design The State of Wi-Fi, by Ubiquiti. Lots of stats. Disruptions: At Odds Over Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing, by Nick Bilton, in his Bits blog at the New York Times McKinsey Global Institute: Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and Continue reading
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2013_05_24 link pile
Media Tell Hollywood Thou Shalt Not Put A Stumbling Block Before the Treaty For The Blind, by Harold Feld. Points to the We the People Petition Why is the Media Hyping Cord-Cutting? Elements of a viral launch page, by Simon Schmid on Smashing Fred Wilson on “natural advertising” Science Tornadoes and Climate Change: Huge Stakes, Continue reading
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Time for public radio ratings winners to take a bow
I like and subscribe to Radio INK, which is the main way I stay current with what’s happening in mainstream radio. And Radio INK loves WTOP, the news station in Washington. Do a search for site:http://www.radioink.com WTOP and you’ll get many pages of praise running from Radio INK to WTOP — all of it, I Continue reading
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2013_05_23 link pile
Outlining Dave on the Icon Chooser Dialog (Just added the icons for each subhead) This is a test: em dash — , possessive apostophe ’ . If you see more of those in the text below, please ignore. Thanks. – Doc VRM Intention Economy: from the Fringes to Mainstream? Interview in Paris Tech Review Fighting Continue reading
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2013_05_22 link pile
How the Decline of the Traditional Workplace Is Changing Our Cities, by Emily Badger American ISPs are now hated even more than airlines, By Brad Reed Hollywood studios attempt to censor Pirate Bay documentary High plains aquifer running out. Graphic. Google tweaks search. After You Read This Kid’s Story, You’ll Think Twice About What You Continue reading
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Flickr to Pro customers: no change
Flickr has updated its service. I knew it was coming and I had a few hopes for it: Better multiple account management Personal service, by human beings using their real voices Ability to make changes (e.g. of permissions or licensing) for thousands of shots in one move Finer distinctions than friends/family/private The updates, from what Continue reading
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What can people do with data that companies alone can’t?
After six years on the VRM case, it seems obvious to me that individuals need to be the points of integration for their own data — and of data about them, held by companies. But it’s not yet obvious to the marketplace, since we still lack suppliers willing either to part with the personal data Continue reading
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2013_05_19 link pile
Data The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn’t Care If It Hurts Advertisers Dynamic pricing vs./+ savvy consumers Mozilla stalls on privacy patch: ‘needs more work’ A shortage of privacy engineers, by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh, both of CMU Big Data makes the movies Firms Brace for New European Data Privacy Continue reading
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Long-form never stopped working
Fashions come and go. Verities do not. One verity respected by many old-fashioned writers and publishers is the simple fact that long-form pieces work better than short-form ones for the purpose of communicating in depth. If you want deep, and you’re writing prose, more of it will work better than less of it, given an Continue reading
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Some perspectives in time and space
First, time. Earth became habitable for primitive life forms some 3.X billion years ago. It will cease to be habitable in another 1 billion years or less, given the rate at which the Sun continues to get hotter, which it has been doing for the duration. Species last, on average, a couple million years. Depending Continue reading
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Bringing “Personal Cloud” to Market
This is about whether the buzzword “cloud” can ever find common usage by ordinary folks, even if it’s a noun modified by the word personal, as we now have with personal cloud. The problem with the term “cloud” shows up immediately if you look up cloud computing. Your top result, at that link, will be Wikipedia’s, Continue reading
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Springing in Paris
That’s the Parc de la Villette, also variously known as Parc La Villette, Parc Villette, or just Villette, here in Paris. I shot it two days ago, when we got here and the weather was clear. It got cloudy and wet after that. But it looks like things will clear up for::::: From the About Continue reading
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People will do more with Big Data than big companies can
The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got the power to do what only big enterprises could do previously — and to do a much better job of it. It happened when computing got personal in the ’80s. It happened when networking got personal in Continue reading