this morning techcruch decided to roundup folks waxing philosophical about the scalability problems with twitter, and decentralizing twitter by creating some new web site or service. and that’s entirely the problem with their thinking. why their approaches will not work people are thinking of this as a web problem. twitter is not a web problem. [...]

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by mike
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watching this video of a meetup of the WELL from 1989. and a quote really struck me, from Flash Gordon, M.D.: “one of the problems in the world is there are no more neighborhoods in the city and neighbors and things like that, but the feeling of the WELL is that you’ve got a lot [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by mike
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so i just got my Dash GPS that all the cool gadget kids are raving about. i’ll perhaps attempt a review later. i did note something interesting – there’s a warning sticker about thieves on the device: and yet the contents of the box include nice transparent stickers: maybe they should have added to the [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by mike
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becoming a freelancer has taught me many things (some of which do not involve laundry and/or dishes). the most important one is that you become your brand. every person who has a blog, a homepage, or uses a social networking site, should be thinking about that right now. you may not be famous, or infamous, [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by mike
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this is a refinery in McPherson Kansas. the blurry picture sadly doesn’t do it justice; it’s downright surreal to approach one of these things are night. this is how i imagined the Sprawl would look from William Gibson‘s cyberspace trilogy. to see this view, approach on KS 61 from Hutchinson.

Posted on September 9th, 2007 by mike
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when i started reading science fiction (which was comparatively late in life: my mid-20′s) i tore through William Gibson‘s catalog, rapt with the idea of Cyberspace. there was one part that was baffling for me – who would submerge themselves for hours or days at a time in this other world, neglecting their real space [...]

Posted on April 17th, 2007 by mike
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