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Maybe I hate my iPhone

This is from today’s New York Times Magazine. I didn’t know Virginia Heffernan was funny! > “Actually, the iPhone probably sips, like a lipsticky girl with a vodka drink. It usual...

Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple

Check out this post Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple: > "Like Utagoe Live 100, meeting24.tv also has a similar minimalistic feel to it, which is supposed to make it easy for anyone to use – even those with little web experience. The service is based on the assumption that other online meeting solutions such as TokBox (which we covered three times), Cisco’s Webex, Polycom or Skype are just too complex. " (from: from TechCrunch) I tried it, at least by myself. It seems to work but I am not sure that I am getting the most performance out of my Logitech webcam. Pretty cool.

Bizspeak

Who cares about equities traders leaving Morgan Stanley. Not me, but check out this post Top Equities Trader Leaves Morgan Stanley: > "We’re convinced that no one would actually use the "sp...

NBC’s Boston affiliate isn’t going to show Leno’s new show

Check out this post NBC’s Boston affiliate isn’t going to show Leno’s new show: > "WHDH, the NBC affiliate in Boston (I’m watching it right now) says that they’re not going to show Leno’s new 10PM show. Starting in September, the station is going to show local news at 10PM instead!" (from: from TV Squad) This is pretty interesting. I was wondering how the world could give up the 10:00pm time slot, each and every day on NBC. So ‘our’ station is choosing to opt out. Didn’t realize this was even possible!

How easy is it to cheat?

I’ve gotten very interested in Election Reform lately, and I’ve delved into how the overall voting system works, technically but also politically and procedurally. There are so many simple and not so simple ways in which election results can be manipulated that it makes my head spin. I was at FooCa...

Funny: Nasa’s “Colbert Room”

NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.

Thousands of lectures from top scholars – this looks GOOD!

I spent 5 minutes perusing this site, and it looks really good. Wow, makes me want to be back in college. Now if only had time (and discipline?) to actually watch some of these lectures, that would be wonderful! Academic Earth – Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars

Even Paul Krugman has to wait for the cable guy

Check out this post Incommunicado, probably: > "I’m working at home today, waiting for the Fios guy. Which means that I’m probably going to drop off the face of the earth for much of today." (from: from Paul Krugman) 🙂

“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism”

Clay Shirkey writes an article called “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable”. I thought this was an excellent discussion about a topic I’ve written, with much less insight, in th...

Kindle book prices: another genius move

Take a book that I was interested in, “The Lords of Finance”, by Liaquat Ahamed. This is a brand new book, very timely that I heard mentioned on TV. Prices: - **Sample...

Amazon’s kindle on iPhone – Genius

The other day, [Amazon released a free application on the iPhone (and iPod Touch.) On the surface, just another ebook application.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_83811991_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000301301&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=1YP113BP56SN3V5NAENM&pf_rd_t=101&p...

A (fairly) understandable explanation of the math behind the market meltdown

This article is somewhat mathematical but I am sure it still hugely simplifies the logic that led us astray. If you are a pop-math-head like me you will find it interesting: > “For five years, Li’s formula, known as a [Gaussian copula functi...

The Stimulus Gets Its Own Logo

Check out this post The Stimulus Gets Its Own Logo: > "From now on, all projects associated with the simulus will be adorned with the following logo. Whatcha think? Whatever you think about Obama, you can’t argue that his team has some good graphic design skills. Of course, this isn’t the first stimulus plan to have a logo. FDR had his own for the National Recovery Administration. Obama’s is far less fascist."

What I learned at Transparency Camp

There are people in our government who are strongly pushing for more openness and who are very focused on delivering better, more modern, service to citizens. They operate under some severe constraints, in some cases from rules and regulations that seem to have become obsolete. Yet you c...

Enjoyable article about BO in the Washington Post

“Each morning when he arrives at the Oval Office, President Obama asks his staff to deliver him a package containing 10 letters. It is a mere sampling of the 40,000 or so that Americans send to the White House every day — a barrage of advice from students and teachers, small-business owners and th...

Transparency Camp

Everything’s a camp today, Foo Camp, Bar Camp and now Transparency Camp. I am attending this gathering in Washington D.C. to get closer to what’s going on in the open government movement. This is a pretty succinct summary of what it’s about: > “Convening...

Twitter Week on Portals and KM

Bill Ives has been running “twitter week” this week on his blog Portals and KM. Here something from his concluding post: [Concluding Twitter Week: Predictions on How Twitter Will Change Blogs in 2009](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/WGHl...

Content Management Systems just don’t work.

I am often asked what technology someone should use to create their web presence. I know Ruby on Rails well, but I often also recommend checking out Drupal. I know much less about Drupal but I know its reputation and I know its track record. So I’ve felt comfortable with my view. But, check this pos...

[GEEKY] Towards a DataRSS

I wrote this short paper to formulate some ideas that have been percolating in the back of my mind for something I think of as Data Rss. Check it out here.

Funny piece of sh*t

http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work