Dear Reader, Six Apart held a small party in Boston Tuesday, celebrating the release of Vox, their new social blogging service. Mena Trottintroduced Vox by saying that: people want to feel a sense of privacy when they blog. So, Vox users can restrict access to their blog — just to friends and family. I’m not [...]
Archive | September, 2006
What is reddit and why should anyone care?
At the top of the page it reads: “reddit is a source for what’s new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!” “But what does it actually do and how do I use it?” I wonder, as I stare at the homepage of ranked [...]
Tips for Working Successfully in a Group
There are teachers and then there are mentors. Randy Pausch was the latter for me while I was in grad school at Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC. Right now he’s batteling an illness, and all of his former students have his well-being our our minds. Randy was just one of those guys — who you care [...]
Links and News, Sept. 14, 2006
1) Google, the philanthropist — apparently Google will be FOR profit, not a non-prof, more of a venture-capitalist patterning sub-company than a foundation. And to me that sounds Fantastic. This comes at a time where the US Government seems to stifle scientific and technological advancement rather than support it. If Google can fund startups and [...]
The sound of one blogger clapping
Dear Reader: I’ve been writing this blog, Annoying Design, sporadically for a few months now, and so far few, if any, have read it. While my goal here isn’t necessarily courting readers, I admit that I’m disappointed that I’m still talking to myself here. Now, I haven’t told people about this blog, let alone taken [...]
In Memory(ium)
Dear Reader: Robert Scoble, super-blogger extraordinaire, was really revealing today in his blog — it’s a post I found moving because it was so open (as he often is), but the post also raised a question for me: What is the memory of the internet? There are moments, often once or twice in a generation, [...]
