Tech & Etc

The democratization of media also affects our governance.  The bright klieg lights of 24 hour news, tips, blog updates and tweets surfaces the seedy affairs, hypocrisies, warts and ugliness of our political system – frankly, those stories have always been there, hidden from view.

Content is useless if it’s not consumed and you can’t separate consumption from conversation right now.

Taking a page from waferbaby’s The Set Up, here’s what I use almost daily: Hardware: I only have one laptop, a 2008 15 in. Macbook Pro hooked up to a 24" HP monitor at work.  It’s enough of a workhorse for me and although I should

Where do I get my news? Apart from the NYTimes, BBC, blogs, etc. – I also get it from a basketball BBS that I’ve been a member of since 1997.  Case in point, the recent revolution in Kyrgyzstan has been covered by the media and blogs well, but I’m

I love history.  I love the way individual stories become a communal story.  And messing around with a product I work on so much in a different, freer and unbiased way today, I find that Flickr has a couple of awesome points compared to it’s peers.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that there are no efficient methods to filter relevant useful information when you are in the Silicon Valley [insert your career space here] echo chamber.  Options are: 1) stop listening 2) embrace doubt 3) believe everything, or 4) become a jerkoff self-promoter