Yes, back at work and back in the network. No, not posting. Today is 43°, tomorrow and Friday are forecast for 43° and Saturday is a relatively mild 35°. No air con at home, not much where I work. It is very hard to do anything when even the keyboard ends up damp with your perspiration.
Tags: Lifes Little PiecesMonthly Archive for January, 2009
These are my links for December 17th through January 19th:
- Steve Rosenbaum: 5 Trends That Will Change Media in '09 –
- Where is Your Username registered – This is a service that checks a username against an enormous list of Web 2 service. Useful to see if a name is available, or to find one that you can use across the board.
- boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux –
- I0 –
- AFTER THE DEATH OF FILM: WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE DIGITAL AGE | Visible Language | Find Articles at BNET –
- Media That Matters: A CC Case Study – Creative Commons –
- Social Media Service (SMS) | Collaborative Commons –
Via Mark, a blog about writing with a category dedicated to organisation and writing. Might make this compulsory reading for honours.
Tags: Lifes Little Pieces
From a recent university newsletter “A record 142,662,678 emails were sent/received in September 2008 (138,631,058 of these were rejected as spam)”. For someone who started online before .com and pretty much before spam this is just, well, somewhere past galling. I also realise that makes me a greying idealist bore. It is the cost that irks. Not so much in time but in bandwidth, it is bandwidth pollution of the worse kind, and things aren’t free or infinitely replicable online, bandwidth is our key material condition and constraint (and therefore cost).
