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“So this is the question that gently haunts the Netflix...”
— NYT article on the...
Dec 1st
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit
Dec 1st

Firefox Extension Needed: TV Reader

I recently hooked my iMac up to my flat-screen using the standard HDMI to Mini DVI cord, mainly to...
Dec 1st
“The most searched-for product on eBay was Nintendo’s...”
— Reuters.  This makes sense to...
Dec 1st
Joost launches iPhone app
Nov 29th

Top ten reasons why we love top ten...

The context for what we are about to read is set right from the title (i.e. top 10 list of...
Nov 29th
Watch Watch
Genius.
Nov 26th
“The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and...”
— Bruce Schneier, quoted in...
Nov 26th

Rant: aware consumers and manipulation

It seems to me that some people are slowly waking up to the old tactics of manipulation that have...
Nov 25th
“Some bosses don’t want to hire people who have a...”
— Seth’s Blog
Nov 25th
The Death of an Advertising Blog
Nov 25th

Comments: a few observations

If you look through the comments to any popular blog or publication you’ll notice a few...
Nov 25th
Watch Watch
Lawrence Lessig interviewed by Charlie Rose.  This clip (2 minutes in length) touches on what Lessig...
Nov 24th
I thought this was an interesting incentive to take a survey...
Nov 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-23)
Nov 24th
“Social” has sucked a lot of oxygen out of the online...”
— Doc Searls, talking about the...
Nov 24th

The Internet is a Concept Car

I’ve been thinking about the auto industry lately (for obvious reasons), and one thing that...
Nov 21st
“Not only should Congress encourage/facilitate the organized...”
— Seth’s Blog I...
Nov 21st
Nov 20th
“An extensive new research study has found that unhappy...”
— Reuters
Nov 20th
Watch Watch
This is a bit old (‘06), but I hadn’t seen it.  This is the band Naturally 7 performing...
Nov 20th
YackTrack
Nov 20th

Prediction: Future Holiday - Unlpug from...

I wonder how long before we are so connected that we institute a Holiday in honor of the “old...
Nov 20th
“Anthony E. Zuiker, creator of CSI, doesn’t think you can...”
— NewTeeVee
Nov 19th

Dial Plus: new media enhances old media

Dial Plus is the first new (within the last year) technology product I’m actually excited to...
Nov 18th
karmatube.org
Nov 17th

Kairos is everything

I took a debate class in undergrad where my professor lectured on the basic elements of a good...
Nov 17th
“Jamie Spencer, executive director at Magid Media Labs, said...”
— Washington Post
Nov 17th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-16)
Nov 16th
Watch Watch
This is an excellent TED conference talk from Tim Brown, founder of IDEO, on the creative process. ...
Nov 15th

Internet Like Jazz

I was watching the Ken Burn’s documentary entitled Jazz the other night while trying to get my...
Nov 13th
Watch Watch
This video from Michael Wesch (media ecologist, cultural anthropologist and professor at Kansas...
Nov 12th
Today I was trying to figure out exactly how fring works,...
Nov 11th
“About 30 percent of Xbox 360 owners are paying for video...”
— San Jose Mercury News
Nov 11th
“We will have some long-form videos up on YouTube, but I...”
— NYT.com
Nov 10th

wish list: online trend aggregator

I wish there were a way to visit one website and see: what’s being blogged about ...
Nov 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-9)
Nov 9th
Listen Listen
Stardust by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on Jazz at Oberlin.
Nov 7th

How to do research: start with yourself

We’ve all heard the phrase “so and so conducted a focus-group-of-one”, which means...
Nov 7th

twitter business model?

As cnet reports, twitter is hinting at a business model that seems to resemble the business model of...
Nov 7th

Online Interest Aggregator

One online trend that I enjoy is how a lot of sites are starting to take into account my taste and...
Nov 7th
Watch Watch
I found this talk from the TED Conference (circa Feb. 2004) about Flow (or being in the zone) very...
Nov 6th
Listen Listen
Andrew Bird, Plasticities on Apocrypha.  Cover Art below. Andrew Bird has a soothing effect on my...
Nov 4th
I want one for my newborn.  This was sent to me via a friend...
Nov 4th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-2)
Nov 3rd