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I’m glad to see that more and more newspapers are allowing online readers to comment on stories because, increasingly, I find myself wondering, “What do stupid people think about the issues?”
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I’m closing in on a year of using Twitter, seven months with Jaiku… and I’ve enjoyed the element of presence these applications afford - the vicarious enjoyment I get from the snapshots into the lives of my friends, many of whom live across the country.
I talk to some of these people regularly on the phone [...]

My interview with the Des Moines Register about using Twitter:
How and when did you become acquainted with Twitter?
I heard about it last summer in the blog traffic that I follow, looked at the page and then promptly forgot about it. I couldn’t see the use of it. I came back to it in late January [...]

This blog is supposed to be about deep thoughts involving public media. But frankly, I have only a certain amount of time each day to think the deep thoughts, since most of my job is action-oriented right now. So, here’s the bigger question on my mind right now: who’s using Twitter?
I love it. It’s a [...]

Reading through Fortune’s “How I Work” series is an enjoyable escape for people like me who obsess about productivity. Executives and “movers and shakers” deal with a range of decisions and challenges that’s beyond what I’m likely to be dealing with on a day-to-day basis, but the tools they have available to them are really [...]

One of the reasons I started this weblog after years of wondering whether I should bother with one or not was because I hoped that I could write something from time to time that people would read and find interesting. The second reason why I started this weblog was that I want it to be [...]

I’m now second in line for the GestureBank beta test.
What is GestureBank?
Ask me after I’m a part of it. I know it has something to do with Attention.
uh, and personal metadata.
Alright, that’s the total limit of my knowledge. Ask me again when I know something.
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via Lost Remote:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on a recent local panel discussion about TV news, in which a member of the audience challenged the use of terms like “breaking” and “severe.” Check out these defensive responses:
WPXI news director Corrie Harding said the breaking news bug afflicts TV stations because research shows that’s what people want [...]

After searching for an mp3 player that’s better than the iPod, Microsoft blogger Omar Shahine says “Game over.”
I’m beginning to change my mind about things. Even though we have a great eco system for music stores etc, the reality is that our OEM partners are never ever going to create a product like the iPod. [...]