Brad just pointed out that Google Reader added new features familiar to Twitter and Facebook users: marking a post as something you “like” and setting a status message. They didn’t remove similar features, though, so the result is a blur of options: So when I want to remember something, do I “star” it or “like” [...]
Posted by Chris in Technology, Web 2.0 on July 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From “Jackson dies, almost takes internet with him” at CNN last week: How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one — if that one is Michael Jackson. The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the [...]
Posted by Deb in Cosmetically Enhanced Vertebrates, Journalism, News/Media, Oddly Enough, Technology, You have got to be kidding on June 29th, 2009 | Comments Off
How did Twitter become crucial infrastructure? Seriously, wasn’t it just a month or two ago that Ashton Kutcher and Oprah threatened to drain all possible credibility out of the service? Wasn’t there much wailing and gnashing of teeth? So how did we get from there to the state department asking Twitter to delay a maintenance [...]
Posted by Chris in Government, Oddly Enough, Technology, World on June 19th, 2009 | Comments Off
This is a test of the Scrippet plugin for WordPress, which would help me render bits of scripts and screenplays and such. I’ll be tweaking this until it looks OK. INT. RESEARCH OFFICE – DAY SMITH stands next to BILLY, who is seated at his desk. Billy hands him a fat folder. BILLY I don’t [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog, ScriptFrenzy, Technology, Writing on June 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lee shared this article and photo from Gizmodo today, and it resonates: On the left, Lucas surrounded by a ton of stuff from the first Star Wars trilogy, which ended with 1983′s Return of the Jedi. On the right, Lucas surrounded by the only object that mattered in his second Star Wars trilogy, finishing with [...]
Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Science fiction, Technology, Television on June 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
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