February 2008
links for 2008-02-01
TSA Now Requiring All Electronic Items Placed In Bins at SFO | Laughing Squid Scott Beale reports that TSA at SFO is requiring all electronics to be taken out and placed in bins while going through security. No mention of this at the website. (tags: tsa, sfo, security, electronics)
January 2008
Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007: Where we went last year
Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007: Where we went last year, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Dopplr has published a great image — the Raumzeitgeist 2007, or ‘space time spirit’ 2007 — based on the travels of all the Dopplr community in 2007. Soon they will be letting all of us make similar graphics, it seems.
Flu Vaccine Shortage Posts From 2004
I am reposting several posts I wrote in 2004 at Get Real during the flu vaccine shortage.
Ethics of the Flu Vaccine Shortage: What Would Network Science Do?
The flu vaccine shortage has brought to high relief the inability of our government to effectively respond to public health threats. This is the result of a laissez faire attitude toward the safety net that the government has an implicit...
links for 2008-01-31
CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - Hot Tech Toys from the Past: Geek Chic from the ’90s Doesn’t Look So Cool Today - Slide 06 Man, seeing a Sony Mavica camera zoomed me back so hard I almost whiplashed. (tags: cio.com diann+daniel sony+mavica palm gear tech+toys)
links for 2008-01-29
Pistachio Consulting Inc. » DEMO: last-minute tips & audience “scorecard” Tios for DEMOites and other pitchers: ‘You might think presentations answer “What is it?” Nope. The good ones answer “What does it do?” and “What does that matter?”’ (tags: demo pitches pistachio presentations)
Eye-Fi » Home Wireless SD card. Smart! (tags: eye.fi wireless photography...
Publilius Syrus on Multitasking
[from Autumn Of The Multitaskers]
To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C
Or perhaps to do something altogether different?
links for 2008-01-28
Capillaries can carry compressed context | confused of calcutta JP Rangaswami on Multisided Platforms (tags: twitter jp+rangaswami multi-sided+platforms)
Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move A new set of javascript libraries allows hosting of any Facebook App on any website. Another platfrom move. (tags: facebook app+platform)
Yahoo (YHOO) Going Forward With “Drastic”...
Basket For My Xootr
I got a removable basket for my Xootr. It’s made by Wald, intended for bicycles, but I figured it might work.
[from my Flickr stream]
Wald Bicycle Baskets, Training Wheels, Fenders, Racks, and Accessories | Wald 3133 Basket, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
The Xootr has very small handlebars, but the photo looked like the gear intended to clamp the basket catch system to the...
IntelliScanner : For The Anal Retentive Inside Us,...
Even though I am actively working to own less crap — in fact I am operating on the ‘buy something/trash something’ karmic law of ownerness, based on the assumption that your possessions possess you, not the other way around — still there is something dangerously attractive about the tiny little scanner that you can use to catalog your possessions.
IntelliScanner -...
links for 2008-01-27
/Ambivalence: Bush Economic Stimulus: Make Begging Legal A satire, but a bunch of people thought it was serious. Almost believable. (tags: bush satire prostitution pelosi begging no+child+left+behind economic+stimulus)
Bush Economic Stimulus: Make Begging Legal
Washington DC — President Bush threw his support behind Congressional efforts to put together an economic stimulus package, stating “It should be immediate, and should not cut back on the advances that we’ve made in the economy in the past few years.” President Bush is adamant that tax cuts should not be rolled back, because leaving money in the hands of those well-off...
links for 2008-01-26
AttentionMax » Blog Archive » Move Over, Seth Godin, Einstein’s Here Max Kalehoff culls ten great einstein quotes, and suggests they could serve as chapters in a business text (tags: einstein seth+godin max+kalehoff pointer:henry+copeland quotes)
Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? - ReadWriteWeb “imagine a web with decentralized, open...
Piccino
Piccino — Home, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I will be trying this as soon as the rain tapers off. I may just go Saturday, even if it’s raining.
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice., originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I love it. I can hear my kindergarten teacher shouting at me, “Don’t paint outside the lines!”
I recently watched Helvetica which opened my eyes to the various generations and schools of font-heads. I note that these guys use Helvetica for their stickers, hate Comic Sans, and recommend a grid:...
links for 2008-01-24
Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Social networking through the ages Comedian Steven Fry completely misses the mark on social tools by looking backwards instead of living experientially. (tags: steven+fry pointer:bruno+figueiredo social+networks social+tools)
Alfred North Whitehead on The Business Of The...
It is the business of the future to be frightening.
Basecamp Messiness
Basecamp Glitches, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I set things up so that my buddies at Heights Media Group could see private messages within projects they have access to in Basecamp. However, whenever I create a private post in one of those projects, like here, in the Workstreamr project, Basecamp tells me that ‘only people in my company can see this message.” Uh, wrong.
...
Dopplr and Tripit: Closeness In Space And Time
I travel a lot, so I have more that an academic interest in trying to find out who is going to be around when I land in Barcelona, or NYC, or London.
I have been using two services — Dopplr and Tripit — as two complementary sides of the travel equation:
I have been using Dopplr to keep track of where I am going to be with a focus on the social side: who else will be there....
Hotel on Rivington
Hotel on Rivington - New York City Luxury Botique Hotel - 5 Star Hotel in New York City, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Next time in NYC I think I will try this place, Hotel on Rivington. Down in Soho, near the Rocketful office.
links for 2008-01-23
mrontemp: I’d better not create a Bible Hotel with 66 rooms. Don’t want trouble from that department Apparently the folks that control the trademark for the Dewey Decimal system actually sued the Library Hotel for using it to number the rooms there. What a world. (tags: library+hotel dewey+decimal+system pointer:mrontemp)
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip...
Check Out The Huge Hives On My Neck
Check Out The Huge Hives On My Neck, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I was walking along 6th Ave in Soho, and all of a sudden I was lightheaded. Then the itching started.
So weird. Once every few years, usually in the late fall, I get the hives. I am always outside walking. One year it was on Halloween.
Anyway, the combination of the hives and my sniffles made me feel terrible. The nice...
links for 2008-01-22
Tip: Yahoo May Cut 1,500-2,500 Jobs Within 2 Weeks* - Silicon Alley Insider “We believe Yahoo should reduce headcount by at least a thousand people, and others are looking for cuts of more than twice that. Yahoo’s stock has recently hit new lows, almost all of its key businesses are losing ground to Google, and shareholders are b (tags: yahoo the+vision+thing layoffs)
Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) by Nina Simone
Once upon this planet Earth, Lived a man of humble birth, Preaching love and freedom For his fellow man.
He was dreaming of the day Peace would come to Earth to stay, And he spread this message All across the land.
“Turn the other cheek,” he’d plead. “Love thy neighbor,” was his creed. Pain, humiliation, death he did not dread. With his bible at his side, From his...
links for 2008-01-20
conference evaluation and network mapping « intelligent measurement Glenn O’Neil research shows that LiFT attendence doubled networks of attendees (tags: lift social+networks conferences glenn+oneil)
links for 2008-01-19
Jeneane Sessum: Before There Was Content, There Was Conversation “I want my conversational legacy, I want to control it, I want to track it across media types and tundras, and I want you to know me. I want to give you a bridge to me now, then, and later.” (tags: conversational+legacy yet+another+manifesto jeneane+sessum brian+solis)
Economist.com - Debate Series on Education...
Mac Users = Openness 5s
A recent study by Mindset Media suggests that Mac users are maybe not the sort of people you’d like to be stuck on a desert island with:
[from Is There a ‘Mac’ Mindset? ‘Mac People’ Found to be More Open and Superior Than Population at Large, According to Mindset Media Study]
According to Mindset Media, Mac enthusiasts descending on San Francisco in droves this...
links for 2008-01-17
music sequencer has balls of steel on [technabob] BeatBearing is a cool music gizmo that uses ball bearings to indicate where beats should be laid down. (tags: beatbearing music music+tools electronics)
What Jobs Should Be Building
Jobs rolls out the Macbook Air, reversing his earlier stance that minimized laptops are unsustainable. It looks unusable for me, at least as a single laptop — the video memory is shared, so I doubt it will drive my 30” monitor — but opinions range from whether about whether it is super cool or a dog with fleas.
Steve demos the MacBook Air, originally uploaded by Tom...
Steve demos the MacBook Air
Steve demos the MacBook Air, originally uploaded by Tom Coates.
Boyd Surname
Boyd Surname, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
More and more hispanic surnames in the top 5000 have led to Boyd dropping 30 spots to 164th. There’s a lot of Boyds out there: Boyds just love to reproduce.
Standing In The Shadow Of Motown
Standing In The Shadow Of Motown, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Watched the great Standing In The Shadow Of Motown last night, about the incomporable Funk Brothers: the studio musicians responsible for a bazillion hits. They had more hit songs than the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Elvis put together.
links for 2008-01-11
Particletree » Reflections of an Interface Designer “Good designers, however, are more like matchmakers. They design for the relationships between the tool and the user.” - Kevin Hale “And the relationships between the users.” - Stowe Boyd (tags: kevin+hale wufoo pointer:joshua+porter design UI)
Dopplr Coincidensity Email
Dopplr has started to add some of the more obvious additional features, some of which I posed at the Building Social Applications workshop at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin.
As one great example, the coincidence area of a trip’s expanded page, now includes the opportunity to email friends that overlap with a trip, so you can suggest getting together.
Dopplr Email, originally uploaded by...
The Costs Of Being A Creative
I was sitting here, at 6:45am PT, having just gotten off a conference call about the design of my greatest obsession, Workstreamr (about which more is forthcoming in a few weeks, I promise), and I happened upon a tweet from my dear friend, Hugh McLeod. Hugh has a written a post on the the costs of being a creative (which, no surprise, includes the backhanded appreciation of the benefits of...
links for 2008-01-10
OpenFrame: ‘The iPhone of home phones’ - Engadget Second life for home telephone? I have gone wireless, but a really smart home phone device might sway me. I don’t know if this is cool enough, though. (tags: scully openframe home+telephone iphone)
Hack: Unlocking A Locked-From-Inside Hotel Door
I was staying at a DC hotel, right near the airport. I went downstairs for coffee at around 6:30am, figuring that I would have plenty of time to pack, and get a cab for an 8:45am flight. No coffee, so I went back to the room, still half awake.
When I got back, I tried to open the door. The lock opend, but the safety lock — the hinged gizmo that you are supposed to close when you are in...
Steve Rubel on The Lazysphere
I personally think Steve had too much rich food over the holidays, and it’s made him dyspeptic. While I agree that Techmeme naturally leads to a pile-on mindset among a small group of bloggers, the notion that the entire blogosphere’s value is declining is just silly:
[from Micro Persuasion: The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging]
[…]
The Lazysphere - a working...
Revisiting #*: A Meta #Hashtag For Reviews
Earlier this week, I responded to a call from Jeff Jarvis for a technique to do the following:
Denote in some unambiguous way that a Twitter tweet is a review, like a movie or book review,
Have those reviews collated somewhere, and
Have the collated reviews served back into a Twitter account.
Jarvis thought that using the @username approach made sense for step 1, but I suggested that using...
links for 2008-01-08
Hotel Diva San Francisco Cool looking SF hotel (tags: hotel+diva san+francisco hotels travel)
Raffaello Hotel Chicago Neat hotel in Chicago. I stayed there years ago while working on Digital Work. (tags: chicago raffaello+hotel hotels travel)
Two Surveys: Get Out Your No. 2 Pencils
Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen at AIIM Market Intelligence have announced that their Enterprise 2.0 Survey is up:
[from TakingAIIM: Enterprise 2.0 - Whaddya Think?]
[…]
AIIM Market Intelligence is undertaking a Market IQ study focused on Enterprise 2.0. Wanting to ensure we cover this topic from all perspectives and experiences we have assembled an advisory panel (press release)...
links for 2008-01-07
dezeen » Blog Archive » Aeroscraft ML866 Dynamic Lift aircraft are getting hot, now that oil is over $100/barrel. (tags: dynamic lift, aeroscraft ml866)
2504 Steps to closing your Facebook account. | Steven Mansour Truly hilarious retelling of the painful steps (“the want to eat our babies”) involved with deleting a Facebook account. You have to manually delete every...
Your Opinion Counts: Is Video Snacking a Good...
With the bad weather yesterday, I became a ‘video snacker’ — I was searching for short updates on the weather in video format. I fell right into the middle of a trend, even though I have functionally no recent history of TV watching. Still, I am intrigued with bite-sized video snacks, and after watching one or two about the weather, later in the day I sampled more on the...
David Gurteen Interview
Davdi Gurteen interviewed me in London a few years ago about social tools. I stumbled upon this YouTube video on www.hashtags.org this morning.
Analog Screenshots
I really like Tyler Wilde’s oil paintings of screenshots.
Building on Jeff Jarvis' Idea For Twitter Reviews
Jeff Jarvis wants to use Twitter as a review engine, where people could post reviews — on movies, TV, restaurants, whatever — and others could track them. He discusses some approaches that he has tried.
I suggested using Chris Messina’s #hashtags, as now implemented by the folks at www.hashtags.org. To use, you only have to
add ‘hashtags’ as a twitterer you...
links for 2008-01-06
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » @twitcrit: instareviews Jarvis wants to use Twitter for reviews, but seems unaware of #hashtags as an option. I am already tagging #movies when I tweet about them. (tags: twitter #hashtags reviews jeff+jarvis)
Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts | Environment | The Guardian Alok Jha catalogs the ways that biofuels could be...
links for 2008-01-05
A Little ‘Intel’ on Apple’s Next Move Arik Hesseldahl is betting against a touchscreen in the Mac ultracompact: “But will this new mini-MacBook also get a touch screen like the iPhone’s? Perhaps, but probably not. The bigger the screen, the more it will cost. I think that means Apple will ski (tags: mac mac+ultraportable apple macworld)
links for 2008-01-04
US Near Bottom of Global Privacy Index - washingtonpost.com “Malaysia, Russia and China ranked worst, but Great Britain and the United States also fell into the lowest-performing group of “endemic surveillance societies.” (tags: surveillance privacy)
Apple Tablet Laptop?
Apple Tablet Laptop - Macworld 2008 - MacBook Pro Plus - Steve Jobs - Popular Mechanics, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Glenn Derene has cobbled together a mockup for a Mac Tablet at Popular Mechanics. Wow. Takes the best for iPhone and Mac, and does magic with them:
[from Macworld 2008 Prediction: Apple’s MacBook Plus Tablet Laptop]
[…]
I’ve worked with the Popular...
School House Arm Chair
School House Arm Chair, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
www.kpetersen.com/schoolhousearmchair.htm
Just like the ones I inherited from my Grandfather.