Monthly Archives: February 2010

This post has been sitting in my drafts for a while. The Clay Shirky video embedded below is one of my all-time favorite videos about social media and technological sociology. I had a few versions of what I wanted to write about … Continue reading →

Rex has lately been hosting guest bloggers over at Fimoculous, including one with the initials and Twitter name ADM. In my day job, I often am faced with tactical details like “what do we name our Twitter account.” If I … Continue reading →

A terrifying thought hit me Monday while watching this flyover video of Apple’s new $1 billion 500,000 square foot data center in North Carolina. Forget sophisticated digital attacks on our infrastructure; there is absolutely nothing preventing extreme anti-government thugs like … Continue reading →

Twitter’s geolocation guru Raffi Krikorian recently gave an interview to O’Reilly ahead of next month’s Where 2.0 conference in San Jose. The interview is obviously heavy on how Twitter is working with geo, but the last question, or more specifically, … Continue reading →

Love this. Newsweek published an internal e-mail thread about who should and shouldn’t be labeled a terrorist.

For anyone who has ever had insomnia, this study reported in today’s Times. What they found was that subjects took slightly longer to fall asleep on nights they were instructed to distract themselves by counting sheep or were given no … Continue reading →