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Nice... "In your Twitter sidebar you'll now see your own @username tab. When you click that tab, you'll see a list of all tweets referencing your account with the @username convention anywhere in the tweet—instead of only at the beginning which is how it used to work."
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10 days ago he left Google -- "“I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case,” wrote Bowman. “I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.”
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Listen up! "Now researchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama's nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election."
March 2009 Archives
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The answer appears to be "no."
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"Like a city, Wikipedia is greater than the sum of its parts; for example, the random encounters there are often more compelling than the articles themselves. The search for information resembles a walk through an overbuilt quarter of an ancient capital. You circle around topics on a path that appears to be shifting. Ultimately the journey ends and you are not sure how you got there."
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I'm not the only person to say that we need more CEOs like that!
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Having to do with images and diagrams and revoked access privileges.
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From the Boston Phoenix
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To those who wonder will Twitter ever make money? "...how will Google ever make money? There's the rub. The company's adamant refusal to use banner or other graphical ads eliminates what is the most lucrative income stream for rival search engines. Although Google does have other revenue sources, such as licensing and text-based advertisements, the privately held company's business remains limited compared with its competitors'," Business Week
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And post it to Facebook. We have no Dunkin Donuts here.
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Turns out that stereotyping NJ sports enthusiasts is a mistake. (I don't like these "What would you do?" segments at all, but it's nice to see gay tolerance.)
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And some Gerogia towns are taking them down because they don't raise enough money!
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It was a joke! The right-wing blogosphere apparently didn't get it.
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It costs more than they bring in so -- even though they work (high speed accidents are down and people aren't getting tickets so they must be stopping at the light) -- they're taking them down!
I loved it. Here's a Fresh Air interview with Jason Segel.
This bromance is wonderfully gay positive. Paul Rudd:I always thought I'd be a really good gay guy. I love American Idol. I watch Antiques Roadshow like crazy. Guys like Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Elton John -- they're all very bright, with a razor-sharp wit. David Sedaris -- who's funnier than David Sedaris? The Saturday Night Live that I hosted was such a gay-heavy show. But it didn't even cross my mind until after. The family that kept kissing each other -- I didn't even think of that as being gay...I remember doing interviews for The Object of My Affection, and people would say, 'What was it like to kiss a guy?' Like it was such a shocking thing. I said, 'How many times does anyone ask, 'You had to shoot somebody. Was that weird?'' I love gay guys. I feel pretty gay. I'm certainly not the most macho guy in the room.Reviews from the NYTimes, Slate and Salon.
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Tom Jones and the Cardigans. HOT!!! We're on St. Simons. I remembered it over breakfast and just downloaded it to play for friends here at the beach.
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Boy Genius isn’t always right, but he has great sources within big companies. Not all is news
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Netflix identified three pain points in the streaming system that could affect a user’s experience: CDNs, the variety of content and devices, and in-home congestion. I guess I'm advantaged living in a place where there'/s likely little congestion.
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My TMV post lots of links to new Kindle users' reactions to getting one.
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Michael Pollan at Georgia Organics last night said that a friend was with Barack & Michelle when Obama turned to his wife and said that food was going to be her issue. Pollan says we have a friend in the White House but still we've got to make him do it.
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Is it really so smart to forge ahead with the high technology, digitally based electricity distribution and transmission system known as the "Smart Grid"? Tests have shown that a hacker can break into the system, and cybersecurity experts said a massive blackout could result.
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Designer leaves, "I can't work in an environment like that..."I'll be watching for Part 2.
...it makes you want to sneeze, doesn't it?
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I want to see it! "When a pure-voiced boy soprano (Nicholas Barasch) shows up to perform the musical’s banner anthem, the aching “Somewhere,” it feels like the manifestation of some inner angel who always lurks beneath the surface of the angry adolescents onstage."
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From "Don't link to anyone" to "Enlightenment: Making linking part & parcel of what I do." I'm in the latter category. And annoyed by those in the former.
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For now their traffic is complimentary (which must annoy Microsoft) but "Facebook Could Surpass Google In 2011/2012: If we assume modest deceleration in growth for both sites (an 85% CAGR for Facebook and a 20% CAGR for Google), Facebook could surpass Google in terms of total worldwide uniques, by late-2011 or early-2012."
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While the vast majority of smartphone makers are betting that beefed-up handset hardware alone will attract new feature phone users, Apple demonstrated Tuesday that software stands to be the biggest differentiating factor as the market matures, and is further distancing itself from rivals as a result.
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The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics released today its “Digest of Education Statistics, 2008” — an annual compilation of data on American education from prekindergarten through college.
One statistic included in the report is the change in tuition from 1997-98 through 2007-8. When adjusted for inflation, tuition at private colleges increased 23 percent in that decade, while it grew 30 percent at public institutions.
My tmv post, judge ruled using a law originally intended to protect after school faith-based groups. Blessed irony!
My TMV post on Nicholas Kristof on MSRA
Progress is that when you fire a teacher in a rural district for a Gay-themed project (This one on The Laramie Project about Matthew Shephard you get written up on in USA Today!
Not really a surprise, "The lack of the almighty dollar within the hands of states during the current U.S. economic crisis, coupled with the millions states utilize to contest years of legal appeals, has made the nation second guess the efficiency of killing another human being."
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CNBC should publicly declare that its new overriding mission will be responsible journalism that holds Wall Street accountable. As a down payment, we ask you to hire some new economic voices – people who have a track record of being right about the economic crisis and holding Wall Street executives’ feet to the fire.
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Minimally Invasive Education is defined as a pedagogic method that uses the learning environment to generate an adequate level of motivation to induce learning in groups of children, with minimal, or no, intervention by a teacher.
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The only newspapers experiencing serious competitive difficulties are those in the top 25 markets (about 1 percent of the total) and these are joined in suffering by corporate newspaper companies whose executives have made serious managerial mistakes.
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New ad units coming to the web
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I'll watch the climax of the feud on TiVo later today. Still, I agree with Jill, "without the TV clips, we would have nothing to talk about, but without the Internet, would anyone care?"
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Sweet.
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A preview release of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral. The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the video below) and archive and search all of the SMS text messages you send and receive. You can also use the service to make low-priced international calls and easily access Goog-411 directory assistance.
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Internet access at 35,000 feet is no longer next year's technology. Several dozen planes over the US have broadband over WiFi backed by satellite or ground cell stations, and hundreds more are coming this year. Here's how the technology works, which airlines offer Internet service, and what's coming up.
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Me @ TMV: More from P. W. Singer on robots of war (and a fun Samantha Bee video)
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My TMV post on the "Answer Engine" coming in May. Hopes -- and expectations -- are high.
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George Will spends an entire column quoting Michael Pollan to criticize Tom Vilsack's agriculture policies.
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In a time of disruptive change, as management consultant Douglas Berger has noted, "the expected future ceases to exist." It is a time marked by disequilibrium and instability. It is a time when some players succeed and others go under. It can be a time of fear and retrenchment. It can also be a time of transformative innovation. But there should be no doubt: We are in the midst of irreversible change in our expected future.
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Based on Chinese language reports. Expected in the third quarter. I want one!
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The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is less Catholic. ... So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics and Baptists. Be sure to check out the interactive graphics.
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My TMV post: video of Boston Dynamics' “Big Dog” military robot. Excerpts from January 22 Fresh Air interview of P. W. Singer. His book, Wired For War, explores the advance of robotics in warfare and the ethical dilemmas related to it.
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— Facebook announced new features on its Web site on Wednesday that will allow colleges and other organizations to create a centralized public profile and publish a live stream of announcements for their followers.
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Second of a 2 part story from last night. Details how and why eyewitness testimony is problematic. Suggests some of what law enforcement can do to improve accuracy.
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Quick examination of the three models of Cloud Computing: 1. Renting raw hardware: compute processing, data storage and networking bandwidth. 2. Leveraging an integrated application development engine. 3. Ordering an application.
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Neokast was a peer-to-peer live video streaming application whereby “…the more people who watch your Neokast the more efficiently will your server bandwidth be utilized....under normal circumstances the server bandwidth should plateau at 3-4 times that of a single stream NO MATTER HOW MANY VIEWERS ARE BEING SERVED... So if Neokast’s claim is valid, it would be possible to broadcast American Idol or the Super Bowl or friggin’ CNN worldwide for $7 per month.” Cringely says someone bought it. And Microsoft is his top guess.
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Nick scores points against Eric Schmidt vis-a-vis Is Google Making Us Stoopid. Bravo! But I still don't share the concern.
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In his new book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them), Bart Ehrman says each Gospel writer had a different message — and that readers should not "smash the four Gospels into one big Gospel and think that [they] get the true understanding."
In the Gospel of Mark, for instance, Jesus dies in agony, unsure of the reason he must die and asking why God has forsaken him. But in the book of Luke, Jesus prays for forgiveness for his killers. The two stories offer very different accounts, says Ehrman, yet many people tend to merge them.
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Doug will love this...
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Manjoo's skeptical of Twitter claims. "That's not to say Twitter doesn't have a great future ahead of it... What's unclear now is how such a service will make any money--and how it can transform itself in order for that to happen. It's possible that Twitter could do very well--but probably not as a social network, and probably not as a search engine."
Me, writing today at TMV, after struggling to get the Hope Bus video uploaded:
Despite any of the talk about Net Neutrality, networks are right now enforcing a tiered level of offerings that disadvantages production at all service levels. Where I live I can only get a 6 MB incoming line. Outgoing I'm limited to half the speed of a 1990s era 512k connection. They will not even sell me more if I am willing to pay extra!We have seen this happen before. Broadcasting itself started out as an open platform, built by innovators, nurtured by government and fostered by and for educators. Once it was developed industry moved in. Promising improvements they pushed every notion of citizen production aside. It required, we were told, trained industry professionals to do anything worthwhile.
Cable did the same thing. Begun in rural Pennsylvania as a means to deliver broadcast signals to rural homes, CATV (CoAxial cable TV) used the promise of localism through channels dedicated to educational and governmental services and Public Access TV, to take on the broadcast network monopoly. Once it had its toehold, it starved and marginalized those channels. That same thing is happening today with the Internet.
YouTube, we're told, is filled with marginal citizen-produced nonsense and gets most of its traffic through pirated programming. Remix culture -- citizen use of the mediasphere -- is criminalized as piracy. And every attempt to by you and me to upload quality versions of what we produce is literally slowed down (and deteriorated) through service tiers that won't permit fast uploads.Don't get me wrong, citizens reap great benefits from the Interent and we will see vast improvements over what we had before. We'll even be permitted to produce in the margins. But it's obvious to me that the days of the internet as citizens' media production haven are numbered.
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