Entries Tagged as 'tech'

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Spot.Us Launches

I’m very proud to have helped design David Cohn’s Knight News Challenge-award-winning crowd-funded journalism site. Spot.Us provides a platform for ordinary citizens to commission stories from freelance journalists, giving (1) the public a say in what stories get written, and (2) creating a new revenue stream for journalists who’re confronting budget cuts and layoffs in [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

My First Article Is Up at LiveDigitally.com

I’ve started writing for a tech blog called LiveDigitally.com and my first post is up! It’s incredibly nerdy. Go check it out!

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Notes From the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum (Day 1)

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to [...]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Amazon Is Down

Wow.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Filtering RSS Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes

I want to keep an eye on what my friend Becky is posting over at the CraftZine blog, but the feed is a little too high-traffic for me. It only took about 2 minutes to whip up a Yahoo! Pipe that filters out all the other authors posts.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Notes from BarcampNYC3 (Day 1)

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
080315 BarcampNYC3 Day 1
How to Fund Yr Startup 1230

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Notes from Clay Shirky’s Book Release @ ITP

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
080229 Clay Shirky Book Release for Here Comes Everybody @ ITP

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Found Art: Spam

This came through my spam filter and I think its just gorgeous. Something about the traditional hyperlinks and the triple-pipes really does it for me.

(View at 100% size for the full effect).

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Happy Valentines Day Pame! I Love You!

http://www.happyvalentinesdaypameiloveyou.com/

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

What to Install on a Macintosh Computer

On Sunday, my Macbook hard drive died. Died. Fortunately I didn’t lose much data (perform regular back-ups, people!). I pulled out the dead HD, stuck in a working one, and got busy loading it up. Since I’m occasionally asked “what should I install on my new Mac?”, here’s what I put [...]