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2006

156 posts

  1. The Short Tail

    I think my blog is in the "pile of bodies"

  2. “Sneezers” Like Me

    Whatever business you’re in, your product’s success or failure is going to become more and more dependant on “sneezers” like me. We are not going away. We are getting more viral by the day, while other ways of spreading ideas- TV, newspapers etc- are becoming less effective by the day. (from GapingVoid.com ) This was a topic that came up during BarCampNYC: Marketing Through Social Networks. I mentioned the concept of “sneezers” and someone I was talking to asked for clarification. I talked about Seth Godin’s market distribution graph with sneezers at the very beginning followed by early adopters, etc.

  3. Boing Boing: Video: Lessig slideshow on Google Print

    Rich pointed me to this presentation by Larry Lessig . I finally got around to watching it the other day and Highly recommend it to anyone interested in the public domain, google, the web’s influence on intellectual property and digital rights management. Boing Boing: Video: Lessig slideshow on Google Print – Larry Lessig has uploaded a 30-minute narrated slideshow of his talk on Google Print/Goole Booksearch and fair use. Larry’s slides are always admirably simple, stark and well-chosen, and he’s a very, very good speaker; his explanation of the Google Print [ del.icio.us ]

  4. MashPit

    MashPit – It’s about time that we stopped futzing around and built tools that worked for ordinary folks, yeh, the ones who don’t have time to live and breathe tech like the rest of us seem to. Most of the world is not like us (surprise!) and at some point, yes, we [ del.icio.us ] I talked a bit to Chris Messina this weekend at BarCamp, and he talked about the idea of mashPit, I wanted to call a little extra attention to it, particularly for the CivicActions team. It sounds like it might be fun! Here is what Chris says over on his blog:

  5. Reflecting on my Podcasting

    I did my first podcasting in a while this weekend at BarCampNYC . I used a Samson C01U studio condensor USB mic , and Audacity on my IBM power Book. The quality varies. The condesor mic is very sensitive, and there is this weird shimmering background noise. I think the quality seems to be affected by what else is running on the laptop. I have to get better at adjusting the settings while recording, and also figure out the best angle to talk into the mic. It seems that pointing the mic straight up in between the two people talking works best, and talking less than 2 feet from the mic.

  6. Bit Literacy and GooToDo

    Mark Hurst from Good Experience and GEL Conference (Good Experience Live), gave a presentation that was basically about productivity, time management and a product he created called GooToDo . GooToDo allows the user to quickly send an email to the service and it gets turned into a todo item that is dated. When the user logs into the GooToDo site you see ONLY the work that you need to on that day. There was much skepticism about the utility of this tool for a broad audience.

  7. BarCamp on Flickr, and a cool different way to view them

    There are tons of pictures of people at BarCamp up on Flickr . BarCamp and BarCamp NYC were two of the most popular tags on Flickr over the weekend. I guess that is what happens when a bunch of geeks with digital cameras and WiFi access hang out for 48 hours. I posted a link to this hack from Rasmus Lerdorf (that he showed at DrupalCon Amsterdam) to the BarCamp wiki but wanted to get it into the various aggregated feeds. So I post it again here.

  8. Big Weekend at BarCamp

    I spent the weekend at barcamp in NYC. Lots of cool conversations, interesting things learned and people met. I blogged a bit about it and did 5 podcasts, all over at CivicActions.com

  9. Narcissistic use pf a Flickr Hack

    I just remembered these yahoo hacks that i saw at DrupalCon in amsterdam, and I played around a bit with the Flickr one. Click here to see some pictures of me from flickr