28 February 2010

freewill is not happiness. (though it could be the means.)

25 February 2010

"micro information (works) because we have come to a point where readers/writers have access to any needed missing information." - B. Wayne
reading comments on @Rands' "A Story Culture". http://ping.fm/63AIg

04 February 2010

"There is a natural fault line between bits and meaning" - @BobFrankston
"sacrificing companies for the greater good is the very essence of capitalism" - Bob Frankston (@BobFrankston) http://bit.ly/aQvnh6

03 February 2010

"A network is like a country in that it is a web of relationships regulated by standards." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/b9kur5
"Law is becoming irrelevant. The real locus of regulation is going to be computer code." - Lawrence Lessig http://bit.ly/b9kur5

02 February 2010

"t’s not as though the iPad is going to murder curiosity." - Dan Moren http://bit.ly/9zsUP4
"The iPad won’t kill the computer any more than the graphical user interface did away with the command line." - @DMoren http://bit.ly/9zsUP4
"Apple and Adobe invented modern publishing together... they've been fighting like an old unmarried couple ever since." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi
"Apple and Adobe invented modern publishing together... they've been fighting like an old unmarried couple ever since." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi
"...humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works." http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi
reading @Zeldman's "Flash, iPad, Standards". http://bit.ly/b4v5Mi
reading John @Scalzi's "All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend". http://bit.ly/byIS6c

01 February 2010

"The web, as a whole, is arguably the single most entrenched computer technology ever created. " - John Gruber http://bit.ly/bYDmQ7
now reading @Gruber's answer to "What if Flash Were an Open Standard?" http://bit.ly/bYDmQ7
yesterday, i read @DaveWinter's worries about Apple's increasing influence over web standards. http://bit.ly/bJVPnL
reading @StevenF's thoughts about "Old World and New World computing". http://bit.ly/9LXNlA
reading Andy @Ihnatko's "Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense" in the @SunTimes. http://bit.ly/bMfACl