Archive for January, 2010

Jan 13 2010

How Streams might be killing our culture and Haiti might save it

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In ‘Amusing ourselves to Death’ Neil Postman wrote one of the great books necessary to understand the internet. All the more impressive a feat because he wrote it in 1985. His work foreshadows emergent problems as the web begins to define its language and our culture for the first time, and just possibly points to [...]

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Jan 06 2010

Observing the tech sabbath and running manhattan: my 2010 resolutions

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After reading Kortina’s great list of his resolutions, I was challenged to do my own. I’ve never really been serious about resolutions before, they were always spouted half-heartedly and swiftly discarded. This year I wanted to start to really set out some major goals for myself. The intent in this is as much to exclude [...]

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Jan 02 2010

The tools I use @betaworks

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(Update: The awesome Ted Roden has just drawn my attention to Concentrate.app, which seems definitely worth a test drive.)
There’s a few different applications that really make a difference to my productivity at Betaworks. I thought I would share a few:
Partychat – Turning Gtalk into Yammer

One of the key issues that I’ve come across is a [...]

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