Geoffrey Nunberg on Google Books, metadata, and scholarship
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Geoffrey Nunberg (of the Nunberg Error) has a long piece about Google Books' botching of metadata, and what how it affects the
Orthodox spirituality’s design lessons for modern technology
Via Rosie Perera's Faith and Technology blog (which I highly recommend you read, if you're not already familiar with it), I read this morning an essay by the
It’s better for your audience to remember one thing than forget five
I gave a talk yesterday at TEDxYouth@Monterey (I think I got all the various Xes, @s, and other connectors in the event name). via flickr It was a
For toddlers, “A banana and an iPad are two things that have always been there”
The Guardian's Thomas Jones has an essay about techno-toddlers. To be perfectly honest, I couldn't figure out what it was about: kids use adult technology, companies are starting
Very cool
Just watch. This is a brilliant long-form advertisement-- the sort of thing you can't fit into a 30-second Super Bowl spot. Via Balloon Juice.
Constraint and creativity in online advertising
Felix Salmon, who's emerging as my favorite non-Matt Taibbi writer on financial matters, had an interesting post today on the future of online advertising. I’ve been looking at
A history I need: the concept of “real time”
Has anyone written an article on the term "real time"-- where it comes from, how it's been used in the last few decades, and what it means today?
“Confessions of a Tweeter:” count me sympathetic and skeptical
"Writer, editor, and Web professional" (who isn't a Web professional these days?) Larry Carlat has a New York Times Magazine piece about how Twitter destroyed his life: It
On the success of Angry Birds
My wife shot me a link to this article: Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience Recently clients have asked
Steve Jobs and Buddhism
A long, interesting piece on PLOS Blogs' NeuroTribe asks, "What kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs?" Not in the sense of lineage or doctrinal belief-- he was most