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Microblogging and recycling information

Monday, May 19, 2008

I have to admit, I really enjoy thinking about the experience of a consumer with all this new media we have available to us today. It’s a sort of weird hobby, but I have always enjoyed the challenge of the whole ’step in someone elses shoes’ mindset that goes into recreating and living that experience. [...]

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The end of an era

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Arthur C Clarke died today, the last of the big 3. We have him to thank for the idea of telecom satellites, and we’ll still be singing his praises when we finally develop space elevators. In the mean time, people can occupy themselves reading his books, such as 2001 and the Rama series.

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Lolcats

Sunday, January 27, 2008

I have to admit, Lolcats are pretty much the funniest and most endearing things on the net. The whole childish language makes the anthropomorphization so much more believable and that believability really adds to the humor. But what I’m most impressed about is the level of wit the caption writers have - what they see [...]

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Wii, Joy, Counter-Hype

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Just mere months after a brutal counter-hype cycle of Second Life bore its ugly head, I’m predicting we’re going to have some of the same counter-hype coming to the Wii. But first, allow me to take a slight (large?) tangent and take a step back from the (legitimate or otherwise) complaints about either product to [...]

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