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The florist and the iPhone

Since before we were married, my wife has always been very tolerant of my obsession with technology. She has never complained about the six computers that litter the study, or the endless gadgets that flow through this house. But while she has tolerated gadgets (and my endless blabbering about them), she has never had even [...]

The Twitter saga continues…

I’ve gone from calling Twitter dumb, to eating Twitter crow and admitting a minor Twitter addiction. As if to add an explanation point to that progression, I ended up talking to Sam Diaz from the Washington Post on the same topic last week. (See Life, In Little Chirps: Introducing Twitter, a Web Experiment In the [...]

Cat pictures, leetspeak, cheezburgers, and other fun

You might have noticed pictures like the one above or the one on Twitter’s error page. This meme, a derivative of leetspeak, is a fascinating example of how the Internet is accelerating the evolution of language and communication. (They are also really funny.) Take an example like “laugh out loud.” The evolution looks something like: [...]

Dedication to an idea

I was impressed by this video on so many levels. But above all, I’m most impressed by the dedication it takes to take a photo a day for six years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo

How do Wikis work?

Lee LeFever put together a great four minute overview on how Wikis work.

You had me at snarky

OK, so I’m about to eat some Twitter crow. You may recall I called Twitter super dumb in an earlier post [1]. It turns out “thinking Twitter is super dumb” is more of a phase in a long process of eventually becoming addicted to Twitter. It goes something like this: Twitter, what is that? Another [...]