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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
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Doug Lane, on thinking a bit more before publishing on his own site than he would on Twitter or Facebook: If I let moments of anger or frustration sit for a bit, one of two things will happen. Most likely, I’ll move on to something more meaningful without shoving valueless negativity in anyone else’s face. Or, if something…
Squash – October 2017 This being my penultimate entry into the Micro.blog photo challenge.
In 2007 I visited the area where Ben Franklin TechVentures is now. I was there for an interview with the then CEO of Viddler, Rob Sandie, to see about working there full time. At the time, Viddler was housed in Jordan Hall – a one-story building next to the now incredible Ben Franklin TechVentures complex. It wasn't until…
Lackawanna Lake – October 2017 Day 5 photo challenge entry.
Mozilla: Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages,…
Colin Walker: I spent years blogging about social media, trying to think about ways to drive mainstream adoption. When we reached the tipping point I had to ask "what now?" but still managed to find things to write about for a while. But, for the last several years, I have become increasingly disenchanted with social networks, and the…
Coffee bean counter, Duffy’s Coffee Company, Clark’s Summit, PA – November 2017 This being my day 4 photo challenge entry.
This was harder to create from a Live Photo than it should have. And I don't like the result. But, such is life. Publish! This being my day 3 photo challenge entry.
Train mailboxes, Steamtown Museum, Scranton, PA – November 2017 This being my Day 1 Photo Challenge entry for squares.
Duffy’s Coffee Company, Clarks Summit, PA – November 2017 This being my day 2 entry of the Micro.blog photo challenge.
Horace Dediu: From a revenue point of view, I believe next year’s fourth quarter will see the Watch generating higher revenues than the highest quarter for the iPod. Let that sink in. Amazing. Some flop.
Josh Wilburne, Designer at Twitter: With this in mind, we designed a system that defines two types of written languages, dense and non-dense, and expands the character limit for non-dense languages. By grouping languages this way, we can give people writing in non-dense languages like English and Spanish the same space to express themselves as people writing in…
Doug Lane: I thought we could start on Saturday (Nov. 11) and go for seven days. He has a theme for each of the 7 days. I'm in.
Apollo: Apollo is built by a former Apple employee with feedback from thousands of Redditors to sculpt the best client possible. It features a beautiful, native iOS design, smooth, customizable gestures, fast loading pages, a supercharged Media Viewer experience, a powerful, full Markdown editor, a Jump Bar for lightning-fast navigation, and so much more. You have to see…
Darrel Etherington, for TechCrunch: Waymo is operating at full Level 4 autonomy, sharing public roads with human-driven cars and pedestrians, with no one at the wheel able to take over in case things don’t go as planned. See also, my prediction time capsule.
Photo credit: Mandy Pennington on Twitter. On Friday I had the privilege to host two sessions at the 2017 tecBRIDGE Entrepreneurial Institute Conference at Marywood University. The event was very well attended (I’d say nearly 200 people, but I don’t know for sure). The speakers and panels were engaging, interesting, and the number of people that remained until…
Prompton Lake – October 2017
Adrian Weckler interviewed Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, for Independent.ie out of Dublin. Regarding longer form video Krieger replies: What we have right now is a minute. If we introduce longer video, we have to make it fit into the flow of Instagram in a way that makes sense. I think what might point the way is the…
Tucker Hottes and I are setting up new equipment for a forthcoming podcast from Condron Media. We're looking for feedback in the comments on how the audio sounds. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Download
Robert Naeye for Astronomy magazine, on the instrumentation that detected a 130M year-old kilonova: The LIGO and Virgo instruments detected a crescendo of waves for a whopping 100 seconds — much longer than previous detections. The duration, amplitude, and frequency of the waves had all the characteristics that theorists have expected for a binary system consisting of two…
Readers of my blog will know that I occasionally attempt to predict when certain technologies that I write about will hit the mainstream. While I'm very passionate about a few technologies, I try to temper that excitement with the experiences I've had, the wisdom that comes with age, and other factors. Usually, things take a little longer to…
Joseph Rodriguez: It was not unusual to see shoe-shiners outside of Grand Central. They’re not there anymore. I think it’s a Banana Republic now. Incredible photo portfolio backed with incredible stories. /via Kottke.
Rob Weychert, reflecting on 10 years of Twitter usage, and the next 10: I don’t know how the positive experiences I’ve had with Twitter stack up against the harm it’s caused, and I don’t know if I’ll be writing another post like this ten years from now, but I’m glad to have had the opportunity to collect these…
Des Paroz: One of the great things about iOS 11 is the multitasking capability, and with it the emergence of so-called ‘shelf’ apps. I had never heard of the term "shelf apps" until I read Des' post.