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Leadership

We went to a benefit last night for Leadership High School, a charter school in San Francisco. When is the last time you heard about a high school with a documented academic philosophy? When is the last time you heard about a high school that requires it’s students to have demonstrated social responsibility, personal responsibility, [...]

So much talk

This week music companies announced a partnership with MySpace to offer a music download service. I have to believe that most of the articles written simply copied the press release because nobody seemed to have asked even the most basic question: “when?” Or even better, “Haven’t you announced something like this before? That didn’t seem [...]

FriendFeed, first impresssions

I got a chance to check out FriendFeed this morning while Niko was watching Sesame Street and was really impressed. I was up and running with a consolidated feed of:

Twitter
Two blogs
Netflix
Google Talk status
Flickr photos
Picasa Web photos
Google Reader shared items

I also hooked up LinkedIn and Facebook but I’m not sure what that means exactly.
I was really [...]

U and Me

I’m in Ann Arbor talking to small businesses about Google Apps (see AA Business Review). Yesterday we went to the Michigan/BC basketball game. I saw (from afar) my 7th grade social studies teach, Mike Madison. I remember the first day of class he told us we would have a test on US states the next [...]

Why Wikipedia is better than any encyclopedia ever written

No other encyclopedia would ever include a reference from “Gestalt” to “The possibility of the Transformers’ team to combine into a bigger robot.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt

Tab Mix Plus — most useful firefox extension (hands down)

There are a lot of pretty useful Firefox extensions, but none equal that of Tab Mix Plus. It is less “how much it does” (although it does a ton) and more that it provides four critical features that vastly improve my browser experience.
Multiple Rows of Tabs
I hate scrolling tabs. Who wants to scroll to get [...]

Grey’s Law

Graham pointed me at Grey’s Law which is another form of Hanlon’s Razor.
First you take Hanlon’s Razor:
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
Then you modify it to take the form of Clark’s third law:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Which results in Grey’s Law:
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable [...]

Couple of iPhone tips (Google products, Flickr)

Here are a couple of iPhone links I have been using. Part of the problem with iPhone Safari is it looks like a normal browser to our servers, so we don’t automatically switch to the mobile version. This works fine in some interfaces, but in gmail, calendar, and reader, you want the mobile versions.

Gmail: to [...]

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 [...]