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Howl 2.0

May 20, 2011

UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg and documentary filmmaker (and founder of the Webby Award) Tiffany Shlain put together a modern update to Allen Ginsberg’s famous Beat Generation poem, Howl (also purportedly written in Berkeley). Yelp exhorts us all to unplug from from our endless quest for the next info-fix and, “power-down and revisit the present tense.” [...]

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Merry Christmas from Improv Everywhere

December 15, 2009

The folks at Improv Everywhere give the Salvation Army bell guy a helping hand.

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Fact-checking your consumption with the cloud

September 16, 2008

One of the benefits of pulling all your data together is that you can overlay data sets on top of one another for further insight. I only noticed this today but Pacific Gas & Electric’s Usage History section is great example. Here’s my gas bill over the past 24 months available to me when I [...]

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Trouble Tickets for City Hall – SeeClickFix

August 28, 2008

SeeClickFix lets people assign Help Tickets to their local neighborhood. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this one. On the one hand, it’s nice to see that there’s an easy way for citizens to get involved and if we all keep our eyes open for things like burnt out street lamps and broken [...]

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Community 2.0 with Twitter

April 18, 2008

MyBlogLog just launched an experiment and a shared account at twitter.com/mybloglog. All of us on the team have twitter accounts and have been tripping over each other using our accounts to respond to people and get the word out to our various, over-lapping pools of followers. The twittersphere is so noisy anyway that when we [...]

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Netsquared Mashup Challenge

March 18, 2008

The Netsquared Mashup Challenge applications are in and now it’s time to vote on your favorite of the 122 that have been submitted. It’s all for a good cause and the projects listed here are good inspiration for those attending Mashup University where I’ll be doing a brief presentation tomorrow morning on the MyBlogLog API. [...]

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MyBlogLog: DNS for People

July 7, 2007

Many moons ago I took a job managing the Sun Sparc workstations on the Fixed Income trading floor at the Tokyo branch of Lehman Brothers. TIt was a time when a 486 Compaq computer cost $5,000 (just the CPU!) and a 28.8 Supra modem would run you a couple hundred bucks. With these economics in [...]

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MyBlogLog layers on tagging, this is going to be fun!

May 24, 2007

MyBlogLog – tagging – new feature – techcrunch – Robyn Tippins – YCoolThing – Eric & Todd – Cameron Marlow’s Idea – fingers tired – new job – great fun!

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Bebo’s “Invite Your Friends” a tad aggressive

May 17, 2007

As competing social networks vie for my attention, I notice that the email outreach campaigns have kicked into gear. Maybe they want to catch the kids before they head out for Summer vacation but it seems like all the services I signed up for back when I was doing some research are reaching out for [...]

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My New Start Page for the Next 25 Days

December 1, 2006

Leslie Harpold will be counting down the days of Christmas with a new daily entry for her online Advent Calendar. Taking advantage of the medium, she will post a carefully selected graphic and link to pair with a Christmas memory from her community. She’s been at for five years so she’s developed quite a following [...]

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