Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Wither facebook

    I know that my own usage would back up the claims in this article: ‘Facebook fatigue’ kicks in as people tire of social networks | The Register download hotel rwanda online But it’s not social networks that are wearing me down…it’s the closed nature of Facebook (and SecondLife for that matter) that keep me from…

  • Front page news: me

    While it’s not quite the centerfold, I did make it on the cover of SL Engineer recently. The SLEngineer Magazine – Home OK, so it’s not really me, it’s my avatar…but, yes it is a faithful representation (of what I looked like in college). If you take the time to download the issue, there’s a…

  • Newsflash: Lutz is in the pocket of Big Oil

    .!. I try not to be too ‘environmental’ here too often so I will consider this an economics post. Plus this one really got me going:The US according to Lutz: ethanol, yes, diesels, not so much – Autoblog In that case, Lutz’s opinion is that just about all the customer will glean from an oilburner…

  • If I ever…

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  • More ways to visualize the future

    I continue to marvel at the various ways people are coming up to display very complicated information simply, especially when it comes to throwing a lasso around the complex swirl of micro-trends that seem to rise and fall almost daily.  My latest find comes via Mass Customization & Innovation news: Trends in the Living Networks…

  • Social media slowly making it’s way into corporate America

    (anti-disclosure: although I have been blogging about a lot of Forrester research lately, I have no financial relationship with them.  The company I work for is a subscriber, so I get access to their research…maybe if I get them enough traffic, they’ll give us a discount ;-)) I posted earlier about some Forrester research on…

  • My contributions to a Hitchhiker’s guide to Twitter

    I have had an entry in my “to blog” list for the past couple weeks to get out an update on my experiences on Twitter and to provide a bit of a user guide for a few of the people I know that read things here from time to time and that have recently signed…

  • Is it all about privacy or DRM? It’s all a matter of perspective.

    .!. Well Steve’s experiment to use listener participation in the NewsGang daily has had it’s intended effect on me: I am more hooked now than I was before.  I saw the regular ‘all-star’ gang come out last night while I was at dinner with the family and as soon as I got home, I fired…

  • I won’t say which of these I read

    An interesting exercise in  data mining the Facebook (I’m sure they did it all manually to not become another Scoble). Booksthatmakeyoudumb other boleyn girl the divx download There are probably lots of possibilities for using Facebook data like this and there probably just as many reasons they will never be able to allow it.