January 2010
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The iPad is for a different niche!
I’ve been very excited for the Apple event today, floating blissfully somewhere between the hype and the anti-hype. For me, the iPad has delivered nicely to a set of use-cases that contains the majority of Lindsay’s daily computing and a good portion of mine.
Of course, many of my fellow geeks are lamenting the release with “it’s not good for anything” just as often...
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Freedom of Speech is Less Important Than Fixing...
The big news right now is that the Supreme Court has ruled in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee, striking down provisions of the McCain-Feingold act limiting the participation of corporations and unions in political speech.
The majority opinion (a 57 page affair) can be summarized as, “It’s unlawful for the government to block political speech from associations of...
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It Doesn't Matter Who's President When Congress is...
Today, thanks to the Change Congress mailing list I watched an amazing video by Lawrence Lessig as he explains why progressives and conservatives alike should be outraged by what has happened in the first year of the Obama administration. I thought the video was great—no great surprise there, Lessig is a brilliant speaker—and shared it via the Twitter.
My good friend, Danial Porter, replied to...
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A Google Wave Use-Case: Real-Time Collaborative...
Steph Hannon, the project manager for Google Wave, recently tweeted:
Tweet me the feature or use case you think we should focus on for Wave in 2010! Need some ideas? http://bit.ly/6LMXRr
Executive Summary
The unsupported use-case that I’m starting to see the most is the Wave collaboration situation where the wave participants are working on a “thing” embedded in the wave and...
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You're stocking your grocery store wrong!
There’s been something about searching for items at the grocery store that’s been bothering me, lately, and it took me several months to figure out exactly what’s changed. I haven’t had any specific catastrophic experiences or anything, but it’s just been harder to find some items at the grocery store, lately.
But in the last couple weeks, the answer has completely...