For anyone who regularly reads this blog (hi Mom), you may notice I link to Techdirt pretty damn often, but lately I’ve been buried in work to really follow some of the posts. Luckily, I got just the break I needed to catch up on some blog reading during class tonight (thank you wifi!), and […]
I just read an amusing Jim Harper take on the recent push in a few European areas to dump traffic lights and a lot of our other nanny signs and signals. I can’t count how many times I’ve been laughed out of a room for daring to suggest that a lot of our completely arbitrary […]
I’ve been trying to convey the merits of the blogosphere (I still hate that word) to my girlfriend for some time, and last night, after patiently listening to me ramble on for a bit, she graciously allowed me to sit with me while I attempted cram her feed reader to the brim with all manner […]
I’ve been following the “dead” newspaper business (rumors greatly exaggerated and all) for a while now. I find it fascinating how an industry so seemingly tailor-made for the web can be so backward in its web strategies.
For generations now, news on paper has been about as close to free as possible, in spite of its […]
This is pretty interesting stuff (words I doubt I’ve ever uttered when discussing monetary policy). My vote’s for the first reason given for why the two-buck is back in fashion — currency inflation…
In 2005, depository institutions ordered $122 million in $2 notes, according to Federal Reserve statistics. That is more than double the average […]
I was reading an old blog entry by Paul Stamatiou earlier about The Web App Revolution, and it definitely got me thinking. I keep hearing people make these proclamations about how certain desktop apps are just aren’t suitable to be web apps, how they’re just ‘too much’ for a browser to handle. I’ve always had […]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been managing my own mail and mail server, and just using Outlook as the mail client. Over the years I’ve become increasingly frustrated with Outlook’s bloat, and I haven’t exactly been too impressed with what the other groupware clients have to offer. On top of that, the […]
I just came across this blog entry from Freshbooks founder Michael McDerment (if you do any billing or client management and want something a little cleaner and lighter than QuickBooks, check it out). The push of the piece was how there’s a potentially lucrative business model in providing a bridge between traditional physicalized services and […]
Box sets are the perfect cop-out Holiday gift. It’s right in the meat of that obligatory good friend price range, and since you don’t have to dig too deep to remember (or guess at) the music tastes of most friends, browsing through this section of any music store can bang out a dozen Christmas gifts […]
An interesting Techdirt article just caught my eye, and riled up some old notions I’ve stewed over in the past. Apparently Cingular’s jumping into the act, and putting music on their headsets too. They’re a little late to the party, but have quite possibly one big advantage — it looks like they may not intentionally […]
So I’ve been looking for a nice, easy solution to the photo storage/sharing problem people like my mother face. Over a year ago when I started evaluating this stuff, the best I could really come up with was the open source PHP script MG2. It’s a really beautiful piece of software, requires no db or […]
It’s not that I don’t understand the point of social sites, I’ve just always perceived the social aspects of web2.0 as a means to whatever ends a given web app is trying to accomplish. That, and I’ve yet to find a featureful one done in a tasteful manner. I’d read about Vox in a TechCrunch […]