Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Every so often I like to document my ever-evolving internet presence. Here’s how things stand at the moment. Click the flowchart to see it bigger; explanation is below.
Filed in Autobio, Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged blogging, facebook, flickr, google, instagram, instapaper, linkedin, networks, photography, quora, seo, Social Media, soundcloud, twitter, visualization, wordpress
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Long before I got interested in electronic music, I was a fine arts guy. It bothers me that unauthorized appropriation of a music recording will get you sued, but visual artists who appropriate pop cultural materials get into museums and art history textbooks. Marcel Duchamp In ancient times and more traditional societies, there was never [...]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
I would wish for Dawkins to use more emotional sensitivity and compassion when dealing with religious people, because his hostile tone gets in the way of his invaluable message. His condescending attitude toward believers, epitomized by calling atheists “brights,” is seriously counterproductive. I’m concerned that he’s unnecessarily confrontational and inflammatory in his TV appearances, op-eds [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
I’ve been intrigued by Charles Lyell‘s self-described “dopamine awareness campaign,” trying to show how all of our social behaviors boil down to a desire for gratifying dopamine shots. The campaign doesn’t seem to be going so well; see, for example, the collapsing of his recent answer to Why do people contribute reviews of restaurants/theatres/events etc? [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
This is a melancholy topic for me. There was a time when my Delicious network feed was the first site I looked at in the morning, my favorite source of news and serendipitous new knowledge, and the primary repository for my short-form writing. Now I barely ever use it. I started out using Delicious for [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged bookmarking, delicious, facebook, fail, Internet, linkedin, quora, Social Media, tumblr, twitter, yahoo
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Here’s what works for me. Focus on solutions. What immediate steps can people take right now? What are bigger steps that governments and corporations need to take, and what can we do to push them in the right direction? Don’t judge. Assigning blame is gratifying but counterproductive; it heightens tensions and closes minds. Instead, take [...]
The best and most thought-provoking game of the DOS era was Starflight. Kids today, with their intuitive graphical user interfaces. They have no idea what a pain it was to use computers back in the eighties. DOS especially was an autistic nightmare. Bill Gates is some kind of genius to have convinced so many people [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I’m a jazz guy. I like improvising in front of an audience. I like publishing a post while it’s still only a third finished. It keeps the fire lit under me to get the rest written. I was looking for a blog platform congenial to this method of working. Then I read a PC Magazine [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I’m a visual thinker with an art background, and through playing with Flickr, I stumbled on the idea of a visual outline to complement the written one.
Filed in Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged database, design, flickr, images, interface, Internet, juxtaposition, memes, miyamoto, outlining, social networks, Video Games, visualization
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Software, Writing
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Also tagged attention, cruft, design, feature creep, flow, indexcards, interface, minimalism, omnioutliner, plain text, psychology, rtf, scrivener
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