Archives for October, 2009
Microsoft marketing: welcome to the social, sort of.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Update, only a very few hours later: wait until you’ve read the rest of the post before you click through here, but it just gets worse and worse.
As Microsoft marketing oopsies go this barely even registers, but it hits a number of interesting points on its path to cringiness so it’s worth a little attention. [...]
Always and Everywhere
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
One: On Monday morning, Fred Wilson posted a little joke. Louis Gray had noted that a new addition to the Twitter staff appeared as a member of the “twitter team” list on Twitter before any announcement of the hire came out of the company, and Wilson added: “Hmm. No need to send out that obligatory [...]
Thoughts on a Sewage-Filled Spam Hose
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Earlier today Josh Stylman pointed out an interesting post by Mark Pilatowski entitled Search and Social: Will the Twitter Firehose Become a Sewage-Filled Spam Hose? While the short answer to that question is “what do you mean will become a sewage-filled spam hose?” I’d like to dig a little deeper than that.
It’s well worth clicking [...]
Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Contemplation
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Tom Johnson’s Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass is a fascinating composition. It’s music and text that explore the idea of failure, and well worth the nine minutes you’ll invest in listening.
The piece popped into my head because of a conversation I had a couple of days ago. We were talking about the [...]
Site and Service
Friday, October 16th, 2009
[Addition to the original post, pre-publish: by hanging on to this post for a couple of days I'm publishing after Albert Wenger's post and thus missed the opportunity to say "see? I thought of this, too, so I'm astonishingly perceptive." Well, 50% of something-or-other is showing up, so I can't really complain.
But this does [...]
Magic, Technology, Synthesis
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
“We need to not be building the Marauder’s Map and instead be building the Weasley Clock”
- Kevin Marks (as reported by Dennis Crowley)
To get it out of the way up front, let me just say this: I’ll stipulate to deserving a certain amount of mockery for thinking for so long about a Harry Potter reference, if [...]
