We have a student mailing list at ITP, where everyone can post messages to each other to ask for help, trade info on events, whine about being busy, etc. There's been an ongoing, often raging, debate on how the list should be used, what counts as spam, and when someone ...
April 25th 2006
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Nokia N93
Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy.
Yesterday I was getting excited about buying a new camera. My current digicam is getting rather long in the tooth, with only 3 megapixels packed into its bulky body, and the small 1.5" screen and ...
This Business Week article suggests that Google might be developing their own currency, making an end-run around PayPal (and just about everyone else). This is fascinating when taken together with the economies of MMOGs, especially Second Life, whose Lindens are easily converted to and from real-world currencies. If Google starts ...
UPDATE (1/31/06): Seems like someone else had the same idea - IPac is currently accepting contributions right now. Click the button below to help:
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The EFF is noting a shift in the Broadcast Flag debate in the Senate. It seems that a well-timed gift has caused the Commerce Committee chairman to ...
After mulling it continuously for the better part of two years, I finally broke down and decided - a week before the deadline - to apply to NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's a two year graduate program in media technology / social technology / art and technology / etc. ...
I'm working on some web-based software that has to do with online video, and I need help finding a good user interface designer. This means someone who can do both the graphic design and look of the site, as well as writing the code that supports and controls that interface. ...
September 7th 2005
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developments, it's ever more important that this site get refreshed to something...finished. As you'll none of you remember, I was caught with my CSS down around my ankles setting up the new version of the site when SixApart bought LiveJournal on the eve of my virgin MT install. And I ...
O'Reilly Radar has a roundup of some very smart people (including Tim O'Reilly, as a publisher) debating the issues surrounding Google Print and the notion of whether it's fair use or not, and whether the Interweb has really become lawless or not, and how publishing is quickly following the music ...
July 28th 2005
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I had been thinking a lot about robotics even before yesterday's announcement that iRobot (makers of the Roomba) is going public. But now that the biggest manufacturer of consumer robots will get the cash to rapidly expand their offerings, I think we may be on the verge of a big ...
July 25th 2005
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Is it just me, or is the next version of Windows, now Windows Vista, way too text-heavy? I'm guessing that people going to the Control Panel don't really want to read a novella, they just want to fix their system. I noticed this in the last preview photos, and it ...