A while ago I was caught using my phone to connect my laptop to the internet. I find this particularly useful on the train or, occasionally on the bus. To be honest, all I did was search for instructions on Google. Here are some links for those who can’t manage a Google search on the [...]
I love the whiteboard in my office. It helps me think, especially on conceptual problems. I found this online whiteboard, where people can write on a whiteboard collaboratively. Check it out.
Dabbleboard
Recall momentarily that a friend of mine, Jeff, wants to create a web-based application that enables collective brainstorming. He proposes to call his idea Cloudthink and you can read it directly from the source. He and I have been debating, at first privately and now more publicly. I was perusing the internet the other day, [...]
Earlier I talked about the idea of a direct democracy. I promised I would give a concrete example, and I will, very soon. First I wanted to discuss one method to govern such a democracy that Jeff sent me a little while ago.
It is called EfficaSync and if you have some time I recommend that [...]
Digital Music is Not Where it Should Be
That was the title of a draft of a post I have been meaning to write on this blog for more than a year. I haven’t had a chance to formulate my thoughts on digital music clearly yet, so I did some research. It seems that no one [...]
A lot of companies, especially startups, have trouble keeping their users. Early adapters like myself try the site, think it might be cool but leave for whatever reason. Jeff Atwood talks about the phenomenon on his new site, Stack Overflow: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html.
Jott is just such a hot, new site. I tried it out a few days [...]
My friend Jeff called me the other week to propose an idea, or rather to verbally think, as he often does. Democracy, it seemed, was on Jeff’s mind, and its relation to the internet. I, a fan of the internet’s power to empower people, love to talk about such things, and so Jeff and I [...]
A friend of mine sent me a video a while ago which I had intended to blog about. I think it mostly speaks for itself, and since I have been busy of late, I think I will just give it to you as is:
http://www.vimeo.com/1450211
Recently my sister’s hard drive died and she lost nearly everything. By an unbelievably odd coincidence, she happened to save an electronic copy of her senior essay, which made her very happy. Still, it took her almost a month to figure out where she could find it. I can’t imagine what would have happened had [...]
Cell phones are contagious
When I was 10 or so, I fractured my wrist playing soccer at camp.[*] As my counselors drove me to the hospital, one yawned, then the other, and then I did. We couldn’t help ourselves, as if we were physically forced to follow suit. One counselor remarked that yawns are contagious, and we all agreed.
Checking [...]