Renaissance 2.0
In honor of Steve Jobs’ keynote speech today at MacWorld 2008, let’s watch Pirates of Silicon Valley ! One of my favorite geek movies! Noah Wyle (ER) is an excellent SteveO and Anthony Michael Hall (Sixteen Candles) is a good Bill Gates. Sure, the writers took major liberties with the truth, but it’s still great…
I don’t know how or when this started, but I’ve always had a strange morbid fascination with the famous last words of people and I’ve always wanted to know whether certain celebrities or historical figures were dead or alive. Yes, I know, very weird. Thanks to the web, satisfying these odd curiosities have become extremely…
EarthClassMail was NOT invented by Al Gore but I bet he might love using this service! In a nutshell, Earth Class Mail is a service that will scan every piece of mail you receive and sends the image to your email account to review. If you know it’s junkmail then you tell them to shred…
Vizster was a project from 2004 developed by Jeffrey Heer and Danah Boyd that focussed on Visualizing social networks. I don’t know whatever became of this interesting approach to viewing social networks, but I hope someone continues their impressive groundwork. I have no doubt that we will all see this technology implemented in the Semantic…
iMedix is unlike any other social network you will ever join. It isn’t just a social network for patients, but more accurately for anyone who is interested in health and medical information. It’s primary reason for being, you will quickly discover, is to help people connect and communicate with others who understand what they are…
So many of us are blogging these days, but I wonder how many of us are actually backup our work. Sure, we can create blogs outside of the website in a word processor or in an online office suite as I do with Google Docs, but most bloggers are creating their work right there online within…
Something strange happened today. Earlier in the day, I had posted a comment on Chris Brogan’s blog in response to his excellent piece “Challenges of Social Media Types in the Workplace“. I shared how torn I was as a Systems Administrator because I had to block access to many popular social networking sites that I…
Unless you were living under a rock the last year or actually had one of them there things they call a life, then you know all about Twitter. In any event, whether you are new to Twitter or a seasoned veteran, here are some cool and hopefully useful links to checkout: www.Twitter.com is grand central…
Yes. There have been many digital and computerized pens in recent times, but the LiveScribe is the best pen ever. Words alone will not do it justice. You must see it to believe it. Here is a short video showing just some of what it can do: Here are three more videos from their website…
Here are some tips, tricks and updates that will help improve your web browsing experience, no matter which one you use. There are several common elements that all browsers require in order to view websites. The most important ones being Java and Flash players. In all my years working in IT, one of the most…