Micro Blogs, T Cast, Other Business
Here's a quick roundup since I haven't had time to write here in a while. Micro Blogs Thanks to other "micro" blogging efforts, however, the page hasn't been empty. Between the Twitter feed and the autoposting of my daily de.icio.us bookmarks, there's been something, anyhow. Odd — when blogging began that felt "short form." But […]
links for 2007-04-27
Big Web crowd for aging cheese Just goes to show that you can predict some trends, but precious few… “LONDON (Reuters) – A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.” (tags: cheese trends blackswan) PageRank […]
links for 2007-04-25
Welcome to ZeeMaps – Why list when you can map? Simple to use. iFrame to embed. (tags: maps googlemaps mapping web2.0 map tools) JS-Kit: Free comments, ratings, and more Interesting… playing with some of these tools now. (tags: javascript web2.0 tools widgets ratings comments) Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use – LinuxWorld “Interesting […]
links for 2007-04-24
Digital Web Magazine – Web Design 101: Positioning Refresher on CSS positioning. (tags: Design CSS positioning) US: Newspaper website readership up – Editors Weblog “According to a new Nielsen/NetRatings study, the number of people visiting US newspaper websites rose 5.3 percent during the first quarter of this year. Fifty-nine million people, or 37.6 percent of […]
links for 2007-04-23
Samorost2 Cool graphics, great sound. (tags: flash games game fun samorost art Design) 2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music – New York Times From the NY Times roundup: “The famously reclusive Mr. McCarthy, 73, won for his devastating chronicle of a father and son walking alone across a post-apocalyptic America, cold, dark and […]
Happiness Is… Being Almost Good Enough
The newest issue of Wired (not on the site yet, so I can’t link to it) has an essay called “Down with Happiness” which criticizes the possibility of technologically or pharmaceutically eliminating unhappiness. As self-evident as the horror of a soma-fied society ought to be (but probably isn’t); it’s a good piece. What especially caught […]
Twitter Fiction
So after playing with Twitter for a few days, I couldn't help but start thinking about fiction applications. I Googled Twitter fiction and found Twitter Fiction — the concept is to tell a story in 140 characters. Microfiction. Cool! What I was thinking, however, is how this might work for a long-format story. For example, a novel […]
Art, technology and genius
This month’s issue of Guitar World had a great piece that looks (through the eyes of the audio engineer on the sessions) at the making of Sgt. Peppers. The part that really struck me – the limits of the gear, especially the four-track recording that required so many tough decisions before bouncing tracks. Levels and […]