August 2009
46 posts
July 2009
47 posts
Wray Scott "Imagineer"
I just found out Disney’s 20 year veteran Imaginer lives in a retirement community a few blocks from me.
Cory Doctorow's review of Chris Anderson's 'Free' →
guardian.co.uk
As always great thoughts. We all should be interested in the greater meaning of creating copies digitally and the complex issues therein. A little long and unfocused for me. But I loved this line “..the wider implications of a world centred on a commodity that can be infinitely reproduced at no marginal cost.”The best review I’ve seen yet.
RT @LaserSharkbear Nintendo is slowing support for the Virtual Console. #savewiivirtualconsole BOOOOO! Just wanted to boo something mostly
I am listening to Tron:Legacy movie theme by Daft Punk http://tr.im/uFEI
RT @zang0 “Listening to a friend of mine tell me about doctors selling human embryos for human consumption (as in eating) in China.” eww
Thanks for the follow multi talented @christinerose
Any sci-fi writers/producers, futurists, or thought leaders you would recommend to follow on twitter? @joshwhedon @silverton @mike_elgan
RT @Astronautics “It was the 101st spacewalk out of space station airlocks and the 217th American spacewalk in history.”
Follow friday continued: @doctorow @esaukessler @JLichtenberg @matociquala @@neilhimself @scalzi @shunn @warrenellis @wilw @NathanFillion
So what market, industry, people group, do you predict will be the first to monetize a reputation base form of capitol? Micro finance a key?
FYI: Tara Hunt who wrote The Whuffie Factor @missrogue is on a national tour mashing up karaoke and whuffie @whuffaoke Coolness ensues. 8-)
Thanks for the follow @lizasperling
Cycle video clip from Tron:Legacy →
tr.im
via lasersharkbear
Flynn, The Dude, Obadiah Stane works for me in this clip. (His pad needs a rug to tie it together.)
Do LinkedIn Recommendations Matter In the Reputation Economy? →
feedproxy.google.com
Interesting caption. Are we in a reputation economy? I predict as market forces globalize, groups and tribes aggregate, and the social network matures, you will see a viable trade in reputation economies. I don’t think we are there yet. Also, the article brings up a few good points, one being the new push towards transparency (see clue train manifesto), however I feel some of this is a rehash of old questions concerning paper recomendations in the workplace. Not that revisiting old questions in light of new paradigms is not appropriate. But I view LinkedIn recommends as legit; 1 because online time is now a premium, anyone taking the time to write one is being more than friendly, 2 because recommendations give out descriptive details of character, performance, and skillsets in a context, that a cover letter or resume cannot.There is an interesting on-going conversation that was kicked off this week between some of the web’s heavy hitters on the subject of the actual value of LinkedIn recommendations in the…
“Seedy Solution: China Tries to Keep Nature from Raining on the Asian Games: Feeling confident after recent succe.. http://bit.ly/GBtVP”
—sciam
Latest from the Whuffie stream...
• I have added a Tumblr tech side channel “Whuffietech” for DIY technology.
• Sci-fi writers, authors, publishers are invited to follow my Tumblr writers corner at the Prime Radiant
• And those of you who are interested can follow my Tumblr journal notes for the novel I am writing at “Iteration”
(I am planning on crowd sourcing the dev process, by adding a submit link, and notes. I am intersted to see how that plays out.)
$98: Western Digital Element 1TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive - Newegg →
newegg.com
sds:
As the price for storage shrinks, and pipes expand, Cloud computing gains credibility. IMHO anything that is needed and can make it self invisible wins.This seems like a good deal to me, and it’s got good reviews. I’m staying away from Seagate, but does anyone have an opinion about Western Digital?
RT @foxnews SCITECH: Weather Still Iffy 4 Saturday Shuttle Launch. Endeavour has 40 percent chance of good weather http://tinyurl.com/lyjvoy
Workers have daily smile scans - Telegraph →
telegraph.co.uk
++ a-ok. 8-}
- The “smile scan” software, developed by the Japanese company Omron, produces a sweeping analysis of a smile based on facial characteristics, from lip curves and eye movements to wrinkles.
- After scanning a face, the device produces a rating between zero to 100 depending on the estimated value of the fulfilled potential of a person’s biggest smile.
- For those with a below-par grin, one of an array of smile-boosting messages will op up on the computer screen ranging from “you still look too serious” to “lift up your mouth corners”, according to the Mainichi Daily News.
Don’t forget to be happy! Everything is a-ok.
“65 megawatts of power…used to monitor the calls and emails of 300,000,000 Americans.”
—NSA To Spend $1.8 Billion on New Data Center | Techgeist (via unspy)
RT @CJCalloway Vibram Foot Gloves video: http://vimeo.com/3755989 I want some.
RT @mouselink In the future, everyone will be famous, and nothing will be private. #futurism That and we will all eat paste through a tube.
Check out @whuffaoke “Road trip across America to spread love, whuffie & karaoke!” & @missrogue book?
Paypal releases “Do Stuff For Money” https://www.paypal-dostuffformoney.com will it become the basis for a Whuffie system?
