The Local-Global Flip, Or, “The Lanier Effect”. Absolutely fascinating interview. Two technologies on the cusp of going mainstream: self-driving cars and (dis)assembling robots. Also, technological efficiencies tend to have a positive benefit to the already wealthy (you save more money) but a negative benefit to the already middle-class or poor (you don’t have any money to begin with). What do we do when machines can do it better?
Tag Archives: technology
Newspapers are technology companies, and more of them need to start acting that way.
Own your identity
But all of these proprietary networks that want to own and hold in your content are reversing much of the web’s progress in some other areas, such as the durability and quality of online identity. If you care about your online presence, you must own… Continue reading →
Growth of Facebook usage in relation to the “open web”
We need a digital call to arms to throw out the British.
P.S. Reeder for Mac is now available for purchase in the Mac Appstore. Totally worth the ten bucks.
Why Google won’t ever get social
Their sense of identity is profoundly broken.
On The Network Manifesto. Ten reasons why the internet isn’t as bad as traditional media wants us to think it is. My favorite: “People make the internet what it is. If you don’t like it, make it better.”
240 days later, The New York Times is still trying to implement Edit Flow/Assignment Desk for The Locals. Deploying WordPress plugins shouldn’t be this difficult.
Class: Entrepreneurial Journalism Technology Immersion, 3/21/11
From 6 to 7 pm this evening, I joined Selcen Onsan’s Tech Immersion class as a guest speaker. Tech Immersion is one of the five Entrepreneurial Journalism courses this spring. I want to write down a few thoughts on the session as a way of… Continue reading →
New kit: Fitbit
Ordered a Fitbit way back in August or September and it finally arrived today. Holy Moses. The device is sleek and brain-dead simple, and the website allows you to track everything under the sun in an elegant way. If it works well, this is the… Continue reading →
The future of party directions
Texting a screengrab of Google Maps because you don’t know the exact address.