• How to Hack Your Head

    Posted on April 28, 2004

    I have to let my geekness shine and provide a pointer to How to Hack Your Head, an article by Steven Johnson. Steven wrote Interface Culture, a book I just recently read and was quite impressed by. His latest book, Mind Wide Open: Your Brian And The Neuroscience of Everyday... [Read More]

  • RSS Neighborhood

    Posted on April 27, 2004

    I went to the RSS Neighborhood event on Monday, where Scott Young did a great job guiding a free form discussion about RSS in general. The group was pretty varied, but most had some knowledge about what RSS is already. Some people were looking for the description of what exactly... [Read More]

  • Dan Gillmor Speaking in Palo Alto

    Posted on April 27, 2004

    Dan Gillmor is going to be speaking in Palo Alto on May 20th. This is part of the SDForum Distinguished Speaker series. All of the speakers I’ve gone to see before are engineers or business people working in high tech. I’m very interested in hearing what Dan has to say.... [Read More]

  • Smarter, Simpler Social

    Posted on April 26, 2004

    I already posted this in the linkblog, but I think it deserves another posting. The Smarter, Simpler Social essay is outstanding. Not only does it do a great job of laying down and explaining concepts, connecting them together, and giving literally dozens of pointers to other great reading - there’s... [Read More]

  • PalmTorrent 1.1

    Posted on April 25, 2004

    I’ve put up a 1.1 release of PalmTorrent at the SourceForge site. The app is just a simple application/database downloader for the Palm OS environment. It’ll download a file over HTTP and give the option of installing it directly onto the handheld, basically providing a way to get content onto... [Read More]

  • Stange Behavior of Cellular Automaton

    Posted on April 25, 2004

    There’s an entry at Lambda the Ultimate pointing to notes from a talk given by Stephen Wolfram. I’m just skimming through it myself, so I’m not sure where it eventually ends up :-) But even just some of the information on the first page is worth mention. Almost immediately he... [Read More]

  • UW Calendar

    Posted on April 24, 2004

    I saw this linked off of Hack the Planet, an online calendaring system called UW Calendar. It provides for multiple calendars aggregated into a single feed, and is meant to feed data out to all sorts of systems (open source, open standards, yay!!). I need to write a palm application... [Read More]

  • Jaron Lanier On The McLuhan Ramp

    Posted on April 24, 2004

    I went to the presentation by Jaron Lanier yesterday and it was very interesting. This Future Salon thing is pretty cool, I’ll definitely go to more of them. The main thrust of the talk was that there are lots of different “ramps” which people can use to judge progress. There’s... [Read More]

  • Many-to-Many Birthday

    Posted on April 23, 2004

    Clay Shirky reflects on the start of Many-to-Many, providing pointers to some of the initial posts that kicked it off a year ago. Go back and read them, they’re very interesting.