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2006

156 posts

  1. Continuous Partial Attention and attention.xml

    This morning as I ran my errands I listened to Your Attention Please , the full panel discussion from which some content in the Distributing the Future podcast I blogged about last week came from. The whole panel discussion is about an hour long and includes Steve Gillmor, Glenn Reid, Doreé Duncan Seligmann, David Sifry and Linda Stone. I highly recommend it. Linda Stone’s concept of “continuous partial attention” is very interesting and I plan on reading up more on the concept on Corante and Joi Ito’s blog and on O’Reilly .

  2. Ordering on Amazon.. too much packaging?

    I just placed an order for some books and cds on Amazon. And I bought some items used and others new. As I was preparing to check out I thought about the following: Buying used is good for the environment: it reduced waste, reuses stuff that people don’t want. Buying used stuff on Amazon is bad: more packages (packaging) coming from more places (polution from the shipping) So what do you think? Is ordering from Amazon just bad, period? SHould I forego the cost savings of buying used items because of the environmental impact that results from multiple shipments and more packaging?

  3. Distributing the Future

    I found this podcast, Distributing the Future via dorkbot, I think. Anyway, I listened to the Attention episode yesterday, and it is relevant to us and the way we work, and the work that we do. I think that everyone should listen to this particular episode, and I am hopeful about this podcast as a keeper in my itunes line up!

  4. Time Lapse Phonography, Sonic Fabric and RFID Implants

    Just another night at DorkBot . I accepted an invitation from a friend of mine to go to this session of DorkBot and it was super cool. I have to say, if you are a bit of a geek, or a dork and miss those science fair days… dorkbot is for you. I was a little turned off by the presentation by a “tagged” human about implanting and RFID chip in his hand. Right now the benefit does not seem that great: keyless entry to your house, substitution for passowrd and biometrics on your computer…. seems to me that carrying an rfid in a ring, necklace or keyfob or using biometrics would be a better and definitely less invasive option.

  5. Drupal Developer and Business Meetup

    The meeting is being convened to support communication amongst developers and the small businesses being built on the drupal platform. I am really open to your ideas about what to cover. Please contribute thoughts to the agenda. The event will be held at the CSL office

  6. Emergency Preparedness

    A few months ago (october) I read this this WorldChanging post which pointed me to the personal pandemic preparedness plan . I then tried to open a conversation with my family about creating our own plan and preparing for a pandemic or other major emergency. The last time we had a major emergency in the NY…