One year in one mobile man’s life. Watching this, I have to wonder if an enforced daily status portrait shot might have use in mental health evaluations. Anyway, this guy had an interesting year. From the inimitable but unmistakable Sarah Lane at http://friendfeed.com/sarahlane
2 years agoAh, the fantasies of crafting a best-seller, like winning the lottery, and settling down on Easy Street. This best seller is this author’s 6th book. The numbers are scary. Anyone want to buy a used laptop?
Proof that Photoshop can make even the living dead look good.
A catalog of more ways than you could ever need to find out what Twitter traffic is about. My favorite is Twitscoop because I can mouse over any of the hot terms to see current tweets containing that term. It has helped make twitter more useful.
One way to find useful conversations on Twitter, as opposed to the “eating a sandwich, watching BSG” types of broadcasts.
It’s also obvious that advertising is creeping into the Twitter traffic stream, “University Offers” as one example.
I think the idea of plug-together interacting electronics could catch on, provided that industry can agree on standards for interconnects, power cables, computer synchronization… who am I kidding?
Palm couldn’t even keep standardized to their own product connections. How many iterations have iPod cables gone through?
Twouble with Twitters (via Current)
A funny look at the cult/religion/WTF/What’s the Big Deal/craze that is Twitter.
3 years agoUnless you are giving away a taste of something truly addictive, that the consumer cannot get somewhere else for free, charging for anything (whether news, images, programs) will not work. Once you have operated on the sustained free and open access model, you cannot start charging unless all of your competitors agree to start charging as well. And even if that miracle happens, people will republish the good bits for free, unless some kind of draconian copyright enforcement can be brought to bear.
