Bitter on Twitter
Twitter has frustrated me over the past several months. It’s not really a company I can root for anymore. I’ve been turned off by business decisions and their poor communication and transparency (in my...
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Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design – Received
Received this book from Amazon today. Should be a good read and refresher. Related posts: The Human/Machine Continuum of the Real-Time Web (Chart) Only the super rich can save us Gravity7: Social...
View ArticleRegarding Misguided Social Media Evangelism In Response To Uprisings
I added a comment to this rather difficult to watch video over on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/duel-of-denial/ Their is truth to their being a certain misguided evangelism of social...
View ArticleNews Lives And Breathes
Dave Winer makes some brief points today about News Publications relationships with information I/O (i.e. Twitter, Wikileaks, Open Web) in a post that also expresses frustration with the unnecessary...
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A forgotten Roboto Account
The other day I stumbled onto the site http://robo.to. I remember when it was launched and how it was yet another one of my ideas incarnated by others (which i’ve learned to love! . This one was called...
View ArticleClash Of The Twitters
Some recent topics that are on my mind having to do with the Twitter Ecosystem might be worth getting out and on to my blog. So here it goes. “The Twitters” in my title refers to any service who has...
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RSS Garden
I started yet another side project a week or so ago and I thought i’d write a little something about it here. In 2009, I was experimenting with ideas around simple publishing/blogging tools and...
View ArticleinReplyTo.me
In relation to RSS Garden, I have also started an experimental service provider to handle replies to posts in a distributed manner. This component is about Socializing RSS Feeds. The best way to do...
View ArticleWill Twitter Raise the RSS Shields?
I have not read the Twitter TOS nor researched this much. But we all know about Twitter’s seemingly sudden enforcement of their game rules (new and old). I’m waiting for the next bombshell which I have...
View ArticleCharlie Banana Head
I made this multimeme remix video for fun. It’s been a long time since i’ve created a video (that required editing). Enjoy. Charlie Sheen and Thom Yorke of Radiohead portray dock workers at the end of...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Related Interview for Inventors Digest Magazine
A while ago, I did an interview for Inventors Digest Magazine. The online version of the article written can be found here: How to Find Funding | Raising Money...
View Article[InReplyTo] “Death of the checkin 1.0″ by Adrian Chan
InReplyTo: http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2011/08/death-of-the-checkin-1-0.html This sums up my view perfectly. I declared foursquare a failure so long ago based on this line of thought. Sure, they...
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Supporting the Occupy Movement…
InReplyTo Dave Winer’s piece entitiled “The message of Occupy“. Supporting the Occupy Movement is supporting a mass expression of frustration and an open platform for discussion which could lead to...
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“Back in October 2008…. Few listened.”
I was there. I listened. I Spread The Message! #DontVoteForCorporateCandidates #DV4CC Rumble from the people Back in October 2008, when Wall Street was crashing on American investors, workers and...
View ArticleThat’s One Hulu’va Deal – The latest in Hulu and it’s Illusionary Aura of Value
Maybe Hulu should be renamed Halo. As I have been observing for years, Hulu, the “front” for a multi-owner Online Video Entertainment Destination, has been a very deceptive success story. That is to...
View Articlepersistent.info: Google Reader Social Retrospective
persistent.info: Google Reader Social Retrospective. Related posts: Google Reader + CommentAPI Evolutions & Revolutions: Google Reader (Writer?), Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, rssCloud Google...
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local.ly domain sells for $100k
Interesting domain news on Techcrunch about the domain local.ly which sold, apparently, for $100k. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/domain-name-local-ly-sold-for-100000/ It does raise my curiosity a...
View Article[InReplyTo] Robert Scoble’s Comment InReplyTo TechCrunch
TechCrunch recently posted an article titled “Twitter, There’s Nothing Wrong With Being A Social Network”. Here is the link. Robert Scoble left a comment and reposted on G+ here and I decided to add a...
View ArticleinReplyTo RSS Namespace Reboot
If interested, go here: http://xmlns.inreplyto.me/ Related posts: inReplyTo.me [InReplyTo] Robert Scoble’s Comment InReplyTo TechCrunch [InReplyTo] “Death of the checkin 1.0″ by Adrian Chan Related...
View ArticlewhoMentioned.Me
@mentions compared to @replies… I was thinking about this last night in relation to the proposed inReplyTo RSS Namespace. As we know, if we look at Twitter as just a protocol (and ignore the corporate...
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[inReplyTo] “So you want to be an entrepreneur” By Dave Winer
This post is a response to: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/29/whatDoesItTakeToBeAnEntrep.html entrepreneurs (especially the tech-focused) who “get lucky” usually need to: have great timing; fill...
View ArticleReading Lists As Whitelists For Blog Comments
Here is a thought. If it has been done or something similar is being done somewhere, maybe I will find out in reply to this post. Reading Lists in the context of RSS feeds is an OPML (or RSS or RSS...
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apocalyp.to – an rssgarden site
I recently uploaded the rssgarden webapp to run on apocalyp.to for a small group of test users and anyone else who catches this post and is at all interested in testing a minimalist blogging,...
View ArticleCasual Content Construction and Curation for Storytellers
I talk a little about how I want to use Apocalypto for storytelling and authoring to html5 based multimedia output engine by leveraging interpretable hashtags and natural text instructions....
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[inReplyTo] RSS needs better PR – By Alex Kessinger
[inReplyTo] “RSS needs better PR” By Alex Kessinger I posted a quick comment over on rumproarious.com mentioning my RSS related blogging project. Alex asked for more info so i started to elaborate but...
View Article[inReplyTo] “Outsourcing Comments” by Robi B of subdigit.com
This is a comment I left inReplyTo a post on subdigit.com that was inReplyTo a post on scriptingnews.com – “No Comment“. via: http://subdigit.com/blog/outsourcing-comments/ “So this is interesting....
View ArticleStill Vocally Active
I came close to selling my blog’s domain name recently. I have rejected several offers but was finally ready to accept one and move on. But when it came time to turn over the keys, I just could not do...
View Articledogfooding
The most satisfying feeling as a software developer/hacker is when you use your own stuff and like it. Maybe its more rewarding if other people use your stuff and like it… but that being less common…...
View ArticleDominating Domain Names with Web Browser Keyword Ownership
Something that may be revealed in the future is a supplemental web browser centric system that correlates Keywords and URLs. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature, matured. Clearly, this is a lower-level...
View ArticleMaking Chrome Use “I’m Feeling Lucky” Search
Was just poking around after my last blog post here and discovered how to enable the functionality that lets you jump right to the first google search result after submitting keywords in the Chrome...
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RSS FTW!
via http://rssftw.com/?place=msg%2Frssftw%2FHKFxzzOmD7M%2FLfojSJQ7AgsJ Hello. I love RSS. I have used all flavors of it for all sorts of reasons since the beginning. RSS can also be an umbrella term to...
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Being Busy
[inreplyTo] http://threads.scripting.com/72312ByDw/areYouBusy Most are busy, even if that means being busy thinking, consuming media, creating stuff, going places, talking, listening, watching,...
View ArticleIt’s the API, stupid. alpha.app.net and api.app.net
Important snippets from world of app.net: Just a reminder that alpha.app.net is just that: an early prototype. It was launched as a test and to provide a proof of concept for our fundraising campaign....
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Thank You, Twitter.
Twitter was the first social network that I enjoyed as much as I enjoyed things like mailing lists (groups), irc, forums and rss readers. I never liked Facebook, though I use it for the local...
View ArticleUniversal Hashtagging
Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the idea of evolving the hashtag. Hashtags are auto-linkable search words or phrases that bind and group together topical conversations, events,...
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Getting Dave on ADN – Part 1 of 1
@sull -- not really interested in it. why should I be?— Dave Winer (@davewiner) August 30, 2012 I’m a good listener, Dave. Though I am full of my own original ideas, you are an inspirational source....
View Articlereddit Donate and Pledgeboard
I have to say, I was caught off-guard by the awesome reddit Donate project. This is not a complaint or venting frustration… But more like a way to later avoid what could be deemed as a copycat project....
View ArticleIn Reply To –“App.net’s crowdfunders: Taken for a ride?”
This is in reply to a post on InfoWorld - “App.net’s crowdfunders: Taken for a ride?” It’s good to discuss the unknown future of app.net. Clearly, their has not been a stance against experimentation...
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NO NEGATIVE ADS
I originally wrot a petition and published it on the WhiteHouse.gov We The People site. I tweeted out a redirect domain (NONEGATIVEADS.COM) on Twitter. No votes. It has since expired. But I made this...
View ArticleIn Reply To “Buck-passing bullshit”
Recently, Dave Winer wrote this blog post. I took the time to write a comment, not that Dave cares. In fact, i’m fairly sure i’m one of those commenters he prefers not to see write on “his space”....
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The MacBook AirTouch
This is a comment I left on Coding Horror – Do You Wanna Touch. When I got the iPad2 (my first iPad), I had the same initial wow response as most. But I knew it would mostly wear off soon and it did....
View ArticleDay Job Blogging
I have some posts in the works for the day job blog over at SFAMarketing.com. Here is one that was published not too long ago: Mobile Marketing and Mobile Ticketing | Moving Towards a New Normal No...
View ArticleJournalism Startup Culture
This post is in reply to “Students can run their own servers” I think everyone should take time to understand the guts of tech. You will be no worse for having this general knowledge. As a journalism...
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The Templatization of Marketing
Though it can be said that the Marketing Industry has always been templatized to some extent, it is hard to ignore the hyperproduction of methods, strategies and content that occurs today from the many...
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The Sound of Marketing
Every so often for as long as I can recall, I enjoy doing some research about Steganography and of particular interest is hidden data transmission via sound. I’ve always been intrigued by these...
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Breaking Bad's Desert Shootout
I had mixed feelings about what happened in this episode. On one hand, it was fantastic and I was literally shaking at the end. I’m invested in the show and characters so vulnerable to the emotion of...
View ArticleThe Smart Grid is Upon Us
My latest blog post over on SFA’s blog: The Smart Grid is Upon Us/ No related posts.
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