The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s think about those 3,500 books for a few sentences.
A week after getting my new Droid, it did something I have never seen and is not advertised on the “Droid Does” commercials. It scrambled my email – all of it. Not just one account, but three: work, home, personal, everything.
Last week, I did a little traveling with my family. We went to several places we used to live. We made a week of it. Where I went is unimportant. It became more about why.
I just became the proud owner of a Motorala Droid. I wanted an iPhone after years of fondling an antique device meant for use by the Russian Army, but AT&T doesn’t waft its signal into my neighbor. So I went to the Verizon store last Friday night. I wasn’t alone.
A little context before I get [...]
Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford health care.
One sign of a sucky economy: NASA has put the space shuttle on sale.
The 1970’s era icon used to be $42 million. Now if you want to ride the rocket (or rather just sit in it in your backyard) the price has been reduced to $28.8 million.
This fall, the old orbital workhorses will go on [...]
Is it just me, but on Facebook, there seems to be a lot of fan pages, but not a lot of active fans? Your friends are pretty engaged. They post stuff and make comments and toss pics up. But on fan pages, there seems to be less engagement. Perhaps it is because everyone wants to [...]
Blogs are usually short, pithy, quickly-read, Seth Godin-ish snippets of 400 words or less. If the blog goes longer than that, experts advise you to break up your verbiage with subheads or lists. The things I mostly write here would often be considered short stories instead of blogs. And while most of these stories are [...]
A recent national Yankolovich study concludes that the future will be less global and more local. It will hinge more on personal responsibility in how we treat each other and the planet (among other things). It will be built around consequences, meaning that we will ultimately think more about the consequences of our actions and [...]
I will get some argument here, but I have noticed a severe proclivity for usage of police scanners among Southern men. I’m sure that’s just because I have seen a lot of police scanners in my travels through the South. The little receivers are like a Wii or an Xbox for certain people. A six [...]
I have recently been thinking about what will happen when we take the media out of social media and build more network into social networking. I am not the only one. David Armano at the Dachis Group recently gave a presentation to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York:
http://www.slideshare.net/dachisgroup/social-business-design-web-20-nyc-2548310
Below, I have framed some of my [...]
Did you know that you can make a functioning product or a part for a machine by just scanning it and letting a 3-D printer build it instantly? Have you ever seen a 3-D printer? Can you grasp just how fast we can create an awesome product and manufacture it in a space smaller than [...]
Are you following Twitter’s A-List through their precious 140-word squirts or reading the latest Top Five or Ten? In our endless efforts to categorize and rank everything and everyone, who tops out as the Number One Human right now? Jesus, Ghandi, Kennedy and Reagan are not eligible; this has to be a human alive on [...]
How many blogs do you read a day? A week? How about Twitter? YouTube? Facebook? Myspace? Skype? You catch that show on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the game on ESPN? Jon Stewart, House, American Idol? Wait, sorry, I have to respond to this text; just a sec. My Social calendar is a wasteland of social media. [...]
The Urban Dictionary defines “wrecknology” as, “A piece of technology designed to prevent another piece of technology from working or to reduce its usefullness significantly.”
Yes, they misspelled “usefulness.” But the misspelling fits the definition like my cell phone fits into dead zones. That is wrecknology in action.