June 2009
18 posts
TED talk: How social media is making history by... →
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, has a new TED talk that is not just appropriate for our times in general, but given what is…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21) →
Dave Matthews Band (9)
Spoon (2)
The Beatles (1)
The Chieftains (1)
Funkadelic (1)
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Congressman Compares The Plight Of Iranians To GOP... →
Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra sent out a tweet yesterday comparing the current oppression of Iranians and their reactions on Twitter to “what we did in the House last year when…
Exclusive Video: Hands-On With Opera Unite (It... →
The web is understandably abuzz with chatter over Opera Unite, the technology platform the Norwegian software company unveiled earlier this morning. It’s an intriguing concept, and it could…
Something Called the Internet →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14) →
Phish (7)
Bon Iver (6)
Wilco (2)
Lil’ Wayne (1)
Sigur Rós (1)
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Gliider Makes Makes Trip Planning A Breeze →
At Launch Silicon Valley this past week, I saw a demo of Gliider, a Firefox plug-in and tool that allows you to drag and drop travel information you collect from around the web….
Parsing @chrismessina and @marshallk
Another email conversation with @ericlach and @alexmr. I thought this was worth posting to help summarize the current Facebook Vanity URL “debacle”. [Cleaned up for blogsumption.]
Marshall Kirkpatrick and Chris Messina argue that domain names are a better alternative to relying on a particular service’s vanity URL because you own the domain and thus your identity is not subject...
The Future of Facebook Usernames Revealed! →
A small number of super-geeky obsessives is abuzz over the upcoming launch of Facebook Usernames, an exciting new feature that will let you put some parts of your name into a web address.
“When it comes to search, search will get better when you can bound it — to the...”
– My name is not a URL | FactoryCity
Apple Should Learn a Few Things From the Zune... →
Do you remember how Microsoft gave first-gen Zune users all the features that could be properly implemented via software update? Apple should be doing this for the iPhone 3G. Let’s look…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-7) →
The Killers (28)
TV on the Radio (26)
Dave Matthews (20)
Bon Iver (13)
Coldplay (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-31) →
Dave Matthews Band (2)
Tracy Chapman (1)
Bruce Springsteen (1)
Eddie Vedder (1)
Black Star (1)
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