March 2013
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Link outline for 2013_03_29
Personal Clouds, Identity and VRM Sovereign By Design by Moxy Tongue Sovereign by design by T.Rob, responding to Moxy Do you consider your digital identity a separate self or is it identical to your real-world self #edcmooc by Margaret Do you consider your digital identity a separate self or is it identical to your real-world self? by T.Rob, responding… Continue reading
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And Earth is a bigger target
A comet is headed for Mars. Now approaching at 125,000 miles per hour, it will explode with the force of 35 million megatons of TNT if it hits. That’s a third the size of the collision that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which famously erased the dinosaurs and ended the Mesozoic, around 66 Million B.C. It… Continue reading
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Blogging outlines of public bookmarks
Here are some of my open tabs, now closing as I list them here in outline form: Outlining @DaveWiner SmallPicture Little Outliner Outliner HowTo Small Picture Q&A @SmallPict #outlining My new company, our first product Little Outliner press guide Little Outliner demo HTML5 local storage Q&A Thinking like an outliner Journalism is outlining Dave Winer… Continue reading
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Surf’s down. For now.
I was talking with @ErikCecil yesterday about the sea change we both detect in people’s tolerance for unwanted tracking. They’re getting tired of it. So are lawmakers and regulators. (No, not everybody. But not a small percentage. And it’s growing.) See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Somewhere in the midst… Continue reading
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Remembering Mom
Mom would have turned 100 this week. She got to celebrate her 90th ten years ago, though it seems like yesterday. She died several months later, of a stroke while recovering from a botched gall stone removal procedure. The stroke was preventable, I believe; but I won’t lay blame. Mom lived a long and full… Continue reading
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Apple, please give up on Maps
It’s been more than six months since Apple introduced iOS 6, and nearly as long since Tim Cook issued a public apology for the company’s Maps app, which arrived with iOS 6 and replaced the far better version powered mostly by Google. Said Tim, …The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get… Continue reading
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Let’s put Echo Cliffs and the Kaibito Plateau in Wikipedia
I say that because I didn’t find those entries when I went looking for them yesterday, when I was putting up and annotating this photo set here. If I get a chance later I’ll put some links here. [Later…] And now there is a Wikipedia entry, thanks to Phllip Stewart, @pmsyyz, who improves Wikipedia as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pmsyy. I just made… Continue reading
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Toward opt-in advertising
In Google Bringing TrueView Ads to Apps, Games Marks the first time users will be able to skip ads outside video Tim Peterson (in AdWeek) begins, Seventy percent of YouTube’s in-steam ad views are those skippable TrueView ads, Google’s svp of advertising Susan Wojcicki told attendees of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Annual Leadership Meeting on Tuesday in… Continue reading