Communicating in a networked world
Another experiment here in San Francisco, finding more ways to pay the parking meter.(Though we're way behind Europe.) I was a bit disappointed because some years ago all parking meters in San Francisco were converted to use (in addition to … [Continue reading]
Thanks to Marcia Connor for pointing out this Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (via a long chain of retweets). I was explaining to someone the other day about Mind Maps, and how they’re a particular type of visualization technique. There are … [Continue reading]
Responding to Infoworld Did PHP kill the Java radio star? Zend's CEO, Andi Gutmans, claims that PHP is disrupting Java. Meaning that PHP has gotten a significant toehold and is dislodging Java from its position as the granddaddy of server-side web … [Continue reading]
Suddenly this afternoon at 5pm I started receiving a bunch of tweets (Twitter messages) from friends. That’s not unusual, but these tweets didn't make much sense. Obviously a couple of my friends were chatting back and forth using Twitter, but of … [Continue reading]
Solar cells on an outhouse? Yup. In the coastal headlands of Marin County. We see these in the Sierras (the mountains) as well, in some high-traffic publicly-accessible areas of the wilderness. Usually the solar cells in the mountains are powering … [Continue reading]