the application “twitterrific” for the web/chat/thingie Twitter got me thinking. this is a not-yet-exploited meme of using “twitter-” as a prefix for product names.
so, allow me to make some suggestions:
twitterritory could represent your circle of followers and followees. just hope Blake doesn’t come to your twitterritory and fire your ass.
twitterrain well, we all know the [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by mike
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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. the trouble [...]
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 of [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by mike
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read a quote, most likely tongue-in-cheek, that struck me funny.
Joel johnson, of Dethroner and Boing Boing Gadgets, was planning on spending the week in the woods with all sorts of high-tech gear run from solar power. he ran into a problem with the flow of electrons, and is considering packing it in. the quote?
No need [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by mike
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so i read tim bray’s ideas about how to manage reading a large number of feeds, and those of the commenters, and it got me thinking.
why keep this one-dimensional?
every now and i again i’ll become dissatisfied with my organizational scheme in google reader, and i’ll throw out all my tags/folders/labels/whatever-they’re-called and start over. but i [...]
Posted on March 28th, 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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ah, Microsoft’s online division. so proud. so costly. their readership can largely be attributed to forcing the MSN homepage into the default browser of corporate IT managed workstations. now, all they need to take on Google is a good search engine. wait, what?
i was watching the moderately-local news this morning, and the big lead-in to [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by mike
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okay, stop it. just stop it.
engadget: Fujitsu’s LifeBook P1620 is lighter than (MacBook) Air
wired gadgetlab: Fujitsu’s P1620 Subnotebook Is Everything The Air Isn’t
first of all: write original stories. kthx.
second, you’re comparing a sub-notebook tablet equipped with an 8.9 inch screen, to a laptop that has a 13.3 inch screen. they’re not even in the same [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2008 by mike
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