Archive for July, 2008
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about the world on Usenet. A few years later, on ancient computers at unsociable hours, I met friends I still have today. We “spewed” about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned photos to CDs and mailed them to far away lands with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really…
Lonely Root of 3
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such [...]
Monitizing hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G + GPS + Social Networks
Jennifer Leggio today wrote a blog on ZDNet that brought up an interesting point about adding GPS functionality to social networking to allow for various updates and influences related to users and their friends.
This got me thinking about the wealth of information that social networks currently hold on a particular user to enable them to [...]
Think Before You Voicemail
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, [...]
