September 2008
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N for structure
I’ve been obsessing about infrastructure lately, with help from Stephen Lewis, whose experience and scholarship on the matter exceeds mine. The Etymology of Infrastructure and the Infrastructure of the Internet is his latest post on the matter. An excerpt: Within the concept of urban studies and the contemporary home ownership and loan flim-flam, defaults, and… Continue reading
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G-Mobile
The G1 gets covered by the Guardian. The new GACL phone was launched today by T-Mobile. Continue reading
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Democracy at Rework
Now you can wonk with the best of them at the very Xcellent PublicMarkup.org Continue reading
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Thank you, Ze
Digging this collection of videos that make you feel better. Continue reading
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With friends like these…
Says Chrisopher Hitchens, Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis? Maybe because we don’t need an incautious loudmouth as president? Continue reading
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GACL rolling
My GACL piece is now up to 95 693 713 772 804 1191 2188 Diggs, #6 #5 #5#2 #1 among Tops in Technology. Not bad for something I decided to leave unfinished and just go ahead and put up before I flew out of LAX yesterday, barely making the plane. (The original was much longer,… Continue reading
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Should grass roots cut the green?
I expected the McCain campaign to lie and distort as a matter of course, but (call me naive) I was hoping for better from the Obama campaign — not only because Obama started and stayed on the high road for the most part, but because so much of his support comes from grass roots supporters… Continue reading
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GACL: Google Open Mobile platform
GACL stands for Gears, Android, Chrome and Linux. At that first link — a new post over at Linux Journal — I suggest that Google’s new browser is “cream on the top of a new mobile software stack” that results in an “open season for developers, and an open market for everybody”. Read the rest… Continue reading
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A High Fly Five…
… to McCarran International Airport, for providing free wi-fi. And dig the speed: Nice. Guess I can upload some photos while I’m busy with actual work here (at 4:49am). Continue reading
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What knew?
I love The Chaos, aka Dearest Creature in Creation, by by G. Nolst Trenite’ a.k.a. “Charivarius”, it says at that link. And I thank Nicole Simon, sitting next to me in the speaker room at Blog World Expo, for turning me onto something fun and old that I’m amazed not to have run into before.… Continue reading
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Matters of mattering
Sarah Palin said yes, thanks, to a road to nowhere in Alaska, a story in Thursday’s LATimes, is one among countless gotcha!s which in sum comprise a sea of bad news across which Alaska’s governor is obliged to walk like Jesus. So here’s a thought. What if the Gravina Island Bridge, the $398 million “bridge… Continue reading
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Smoke screening
Sitting in a bar raised above the gambling floor at the MGM Grand, killing some fizzy water on ice while clearing time for my room to be cleaned. The bar is comfortable, with thick carpeting and heavy drapes pulled back to view rows of machines where patrons pour coins into slots. I haven’t heard the… Continue reading
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Reflections
Jeff Jarvis: Newspapers and newspaper companies are about to die. The last remaining puddles of auto, home, job, and retail advertising are about to be sucked down the drain thanks to the economic crisis and credit is about to be crunched into dust. So any newspaper or news company that has been teetering will… Continue reading
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Same you can believe in
Just arrived at LAX, taking a few minutes before flying off to LAV (to which I would like to append oratory) to post a couple of pointers to what I read and heard on the plane. First is A Conservative for Obama, by Wick Allison, who actually gave the maximum sum to McCain earlier this… Continue reading
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Thanks for the memory requirements
Canon has unveiled the 5D Mark II SLR. Whoa: 21.1 megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor; ISO range from 100-6400, and expandable to 25600 (that is, shooting under appoximately no light); 1080p HD video shooting with live view on the back (3″ across), HDMI and USB connectivity… Also welcome: a sensor-cleaning system (my 30D is constantly plagued… Continue reading
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Time to exhale
Yesterday Calvin Dodge said, I look forward to seeing your posts on your disappointment with the Obama campaign’s ads, as well as his attempts to silence people who are reporting on his associations with the radical Left. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for those posts. … later mentioning how the “…Obama campaign… Continue reading
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What happened to McCain?
John McCain was once — no, for many years — one Republican in Congress that Democrats and independents could like, if not love. Why? Because he was truly bi-partisan. Far more, in fact, than Barack Obama. It’s hard to square his campaign with that. Is the difference just raw ambition, political hardball, do-anything-to-win? I’m sure… Continue reading
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Money and blogging
Here’s JuiceTorrent. Here’s how it works. I like that it’s a grass roots project to create a new and less centralized advertising economy. (Or maybe it’s decentralized. I’m not sure which, because the site doesn’t yet say what happens behind the curtain. Is it like BitTorrent in its architecture? If so, does it use the… Continue reading