Communicating in a networked world
One of the first things I just had to do with my 3G iPhone was to supplement those Apple-supplied ringtones with my own. I have written, performed and recorded enough music that I wanted to use snips from my own recordings as my ringtones. This was … [Continue reading]
I spent a really interesting and entertaining four hours in line at the Apple Store in Palo Alto (California, USA) last Friday morning, waiting to purchase an Apple iPhone "3G." I had a great four-hour conversation with the guy in line behind me [see … [Continue reading]
Silence is... well, it's just amazing that a modern industrialized, developing and supposedly participatory country could jail hundreds (or thousands) of dissidents in order to keep them from speaking in public. And in contravention of principles of … [Continue reading]
I got there through several levels of indirection, but a post in LINUX JOURNAL by Doc Searls entitled What's Next for Open Source and Public Media? got me thinking about the impending doom of analog "terrestrial" television in the US and how it may … [Continue reading]
I boarded a plane at a small regional airport two weeks ago. And noticed some new and unusual behavior by the TSA screener at the security checkpoint. After I walked thru the metal detector, he took a small penlike device and scanned it across the … [Continue reading]