April 2008
33 posts
Slides from Web 2.0 Expo Talk
Here are the slides from my talk at Web 2.0 Ignite, which I’ve adapted from a talk I gave earlier this year at Medill:
Thanks to Brady and everyone else at O’Reilly Media, for all their hard work!
"'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett" →
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Why to Not Not Not Start a Startup: The Hedge...
There have been many different posts about in whether or not a hacker should start a startup, and why.
Paul Graham is covered both sides, although his explanation for why to not not start a startup is my favorite.
The reasons to start a startup are simple and obvious:
Autonomy.
Potential for Massive Success
And the main reason to *not* start a startup is also very obvious:
Most...
Video: Barack Obama Is Cool →
The FADER does not endorse any particular candidate for the presidency of the United States in 2008. But this is awesome. (via Nah Right. Original here).
An Appeal to Chumby Industries
So what is Wired News raving about? I’m not too sure. I know that it’s big. Bigger than its 5 1/2″ wide, 4 1/4″ tall, 3 1/4″ deep dimensions.
It’s not unlike Twitter in some respects – and Twitter is still in the midst of its own identity crisis. This may take years to figure out. In fact, by bringing a new form factor into the mix, the Chumby is a completely...
Social Software's Curation Era →
For the past few days, I’ve been playing around with Muxtape. For those who haven’t seen it, Muxtape is a website that allows you to create and share digital “mixtapes”. For those of us…
Twittershow - Modifying Feedshow to Provide... →
Over the weekend, I came across Twitter presenter, a proof of concept way fo using a Twitter feed as the basis for a presentation inspired by a tweet from @ewanmcintosh: “Can one present by…
ARE WE IN A RECESSION? →
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‘Nuff said.
From AdFreak: People in Chicago must be starving after the long, cold winter there, as they have ravaged this bus-shelter ad from ampm convenience…
Your CLIENT is here. There is a door to the...
Moodle: Google Charts Integration
Here’s a normal screengrab of a page visualizing the results of a poll in Moodle.
It’s a table, with the data accessed by /mod/choice:readresponses. By using the incredibly simple REST interface of Google Charts, we can instead make this.
Because the visual style of the chart is a simple variable, it would very easy to give the user the ability to see the data visualized in...
More Moodle Thoughts
Now that I’ve had more time to poke around in the Moodle specs and roadmap, and get a broad sense of what developers are already up to, I’m starting to hone in on the types of features that should really be taking priority. It’s easy to come up with a laundry list of ideas, but the real work is reducing to the essentials. The profile pages are surprisingly under-developed,...
Video: Mister Lonely Trailer →
We can’t say we were weirded out when we found out that the concept for Harmony Korine’s next film was that a Michael Jackson impersonator meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator and she takes him…
“Freeman Dyson describes the early stages of evolution as “open source”—in the...”
Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first... →
Over the course of the next several months, I will walk through many of the interesting aspects of the creation of several of today’s major forms of media — including newspapers, magazines,…
“The winning theory: it will make the cost of acquiring startups much lower for...”
Journalism and the Scarcity Illusion
I’ve been asked to participate in the Brittanica’s forum, appropriately titled “Are Newspapers Doomed?”
Nick Carr gives an excellent summary of the status quo. As data on the industry’s decline continue to confirm our suspicions, the full ramifications of just how much the ‘unbundling’ effect has on the business is being realized, in full Wile E. Coyote...
My Moodle Module Mantra (A Few Ways to Improve...
You’re going to hear this increasingly often in classrooms:
“Make and share a presentation.”
When I was briefly in California, I had a chance to stop by my old high-school and talk to some teachers. I get the sense that they’re moving toward something akin to “Google Jockeying” - a model of routinely assigning students the task of creating a presentation of...
NOTES FROM A RECESSION →
Ran into my friend who works for a major newsmagazine (hint it ain’t Newsweek). They’re laying people off left and right, with little to no notice, so the press doesn’t get wind of it. They’re trying…
Robert X. Cringely on Education →
I’ll bet the house this Personal Digital Assistant fella looks suspiciously Einstein-esque.
Meet the Harvard professor who seeded venture... →
Between 1970 and 2005, U.S. venture-backed companies created 10 million jobs and produced almost 17 percent of the country’s GNP, and according to BusinessWeek editor Spencer Ante, one man is…
Open for business →
Navigating a Zigzag Course in a Sea of... →
“Jellyfish” is the kind of movie in which the accidental connections between lonely city dwellers are given a magical glow of serendipity.
Warez Scene Members Facing 5 Years in Prison →
Five so-called ‘warez scene’ members have been indicted on charges of conspiring to commit copyright infringement. For the unauthorized sharing of tens of thousands of files, the men face five years…
My gift to you →
John Adams’s Emails To Abigail Adams →
My Dearest Friend,
I do believe this continental congress shall be the death of me. To build a nation is no easy thing, to be sure, but to build a nation of free men is a labour defying even the…
Free Business Plan: The Digital Music Pipe... and... →
The latest shiny sparkly thing in the web world is Muxtape. For those of you who don’t know, Muxtape is a music sharing service that allows users to upload and share a playlist of music though a…
