Category Archives: innovation
Follow up on Subscription Content: Barron’s
Image source: Barron’s Online One more note on subscription content. Last week I had the fortune of hearing some editors at Barron’s magazine speak, including managing editor, Richard Rescigno. He noted that Barron’s main selling point is that they provide … Continue reading
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A little logo goodness for the weekend.
Image source: Talent imitates, genius steals Faris at Talent imitates, genius steals wrote up a great post on the Fed Ex logo, which has been one of my all time favorites for years. I’m sure we’ll familiar with it, but … Continue reading
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Gary Gygax died on Tuesday.
Images source: Wired.com I was sad to just find out that Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons died on Tuesday. I haven’t played D&D in about twenty years, and when I did I was never particularly very good … Continue reading
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Rebuilding monuments
On February 10th, just a few blocks from my hotel, an arsonist burned Namdaemun or “South Gate,” in central Seoul. It was one of the oldest original structures dating back 600 years, and had survived the Korea War as well … Continue reading
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Who gets to be a micro-elite?
Images source: Peer to Patent A month ago, I heard Beth Novack from the New York Law School give a talk at the Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. She is working on an interesting project called the Peer to … Continue reading
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Passages: getting close to interactive fiction
Aleks sent me this link to the game “Passages” a couple of weeks ago, which also got picked up on the blogosphere. It’s definitely worth spending ten minutes playing the game. I’ll try not to spoil it too much, but … Continue reading
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Linking as a gesture of kindness.
Image source: flickr David Weinberger gave a description of a link in a panel last year at the Hyperlinked Society Conference. A link is a conscious act of generosity. These acts is moral, and they form the architecture of the … Continue reading
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Printing for the ages
After many years, I finally made it to a dorkbot meeting, a tech meetup before there were meetups. One of the three presenters was Ted Johnson, a great tech guy and overall hacker. He showed a handful of projects, but … Continue reading
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Verizon set to open their wireless network in 2008.
Things just got really interesting in the mobile / wireless world. Verizon announced that they will over two categories of service by the end of 2008. One will continue to be its bundled handset service, and the other will be … Continue reading
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Controlling the Internet
Images source: Wikimedia Commons, Matt Brim The October issue of Discovery magazine has an article that piqued my interest, entitled, “This Man Wants to Control the Internet. And you should let him.” The man is Caltech professor, John Doyle, an … Continue reading
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