Archives for June, 2007
My Contribution to iPhone Day
Friday, June 29th, 2007
STeR’s [sigh...I've got to say the word] mashup of the default iTunes ring and Aesop Rock’s “Mars Attacks,” for your listening pleasure.
So this is where all my time has been going…
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I had reason today to start wondering what online tools and services I’ve played with over the last few years. The most recent ones and those that I use regularly (go backpack!) come easily to mind, but I’ve kicked the tires on a lot of other stuff that has blurred into a single gently rounded, [...]
Widget Metrics and Linguistic Precision
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Comscore today announced the launch of “comScore Widget Metrix,” a new service to track the usage of widgets across the Web. The day before this announcement, VentureBeat posted the news that according to comScore’s numbers the slideshow company Slide is the world’s top widget provider, with the title “Slide pounds chest: Widget used by 14 [...]
T-shirts and Social Software
Monday, June 11th, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to some friends about what “social” Web sites interested me at the moment; I got some odd looks when I said that Threadless fascinated me. Now that Guy Kawasaki has jumped on the bandwagon I’m not looking quite so eccentric, am I? Seriously, though: these people have [...]
Jury Duty: May 30 – June 7, 2007
Friday, June 8th, 2007
About two weeks ago I was selected for jury duty in Kings County Supreme Court. On Wednesday of last week the trial started. This past Monday we started deliberations. At 11pm yesterday the judge found that we were deadlocked and unlikely to reach a unanimous verdict through continued deliberations, and released the jury with the [...]
