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May 31, 2007
— my last remaining reason to own a dedicated Windows box is about to go away #
— insightful article explaining why the Facebook Platform represents a fundamental shift #
May 30, 2007
— still on vacation, catching up on big news #
— the $280M price seems low and the idea of CBS eventually running Last.fm scares me #
May 29, 2007
— also, while on vacation, I saw Dorkbot get front page coverage in a local newspaper via Delicious #
— very interesting and a surprisingly nice fit #
May 28, 2007
— he’s making six figures of ad revenue with only $130 in monthly expenses #
May 24, 2007
— been playing with this, and am floored how well-done it is; also: the growing list of apps #
— “the founders of that Google-beating start-up … are working right now at Google.” #
— cool, two of my favorite Jasons go head-to-head #
— using the effort answering captchas to help digitize scanned books #
— one of my favorite new interests is the natural overlap between gaming and the social web #
— read the last few awkward lines of this otherwise uneventful interview via 37signals.com #
— amazingly brilliant programming guide for kids and newbie adults; Windows-only, for now #
— herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives #
May 23, 2007
— sexy infovis with hotspots for hotly revised articles #
— by settling and allowing a CC license for the dance, they wrongly concede a simple dance move can be copyrighted #
— possibly because of the changes in net radio royalties? #
— with a $1.1m grant; I hope it’s like Chicago Crime writ large #
— surreal teleplay from 1969, reminiscent of Cube and House of Stairs via Boing Boing #
May 22, 2007
— people love their American Idol and World of Warcraft #
— you know the kind via Fimoculous #
— thoughtful little comic #
— music fans writhing in the desert heat via howithappened.com #
— EMT’s tale of a cat found in a London building fire via Matthew Baldwin #
— clever outdoor art, soon to be appropriated by ad agencies via Matthew Baldwin #
— one of the more interesting Maker Faire hacks, read more on his site #
— like Desktop Tower Defense, but with insane combos #
— Thomas Hawk has been doing real-time Q&A for the last 14 hours while Zooomr’s been offline #
May 17, 2007
— more than simple bandwidth, they’re restricting major communication tools #
— Daily Show’s meme-laden take on the Army’s new restrictions #
— the film rights were sold in the early ’90s, but Eisner himself preferred the comics medium to film #
May 16, 2007
— Derek responds in the comments; Paul’s own response was brief #
— “an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable” #
— people leaving in droves after community betrayal; also: Derek and Heather quietly added back to the About page as a footnote #
— the first step in Google Presentations #
May 14, 2007
— erased out of existence by the company they started via MetaFilter #
May 11, 2007
— “is that legal?” “it’s satire.” #
— American Idol for YouTube shows is a pretty decent summary of the concept #
May 8, 2007
— great analysis, but faulty data; the Twitter IDs weren’t sequential since November, making my post invalid too #
May 6, 2007
— created by the original creators and airing on Acceptable.tv, VH-1’s user-driven show by the Channel 101 guys #
May 3, 2007
— using crowdsourcing to spot Michael Jackson’s white glove for a video visualization via Kottke #
— very odd hybrid of poetry, art, and platform gaming via Nelson Minar #
May 1, 2007
— unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here #
— the best of the still-thriving demoscene #
— Matt Haughey’s great new blog on becoming self-sufficient online #
