Category: technology
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drowning in information
Most software is a waste of my time. I need software that doesn’t make me fork my attention away from the consumption of information in order to learn how to use the bells and whistles. What I need are tools that support methods that work. I need accuracy, rapidity, quality, and flexibility in my software…
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Google as the architect of consumer computing
Dvorak thinks that there is a Google OS coming soon, and maybe he’s right. But I think that Google doesn’t need to have an OS, a branded computer, or any other conventional consumer electronic/IT product. I think this because I think they already have what they need to unseat Microsoft, and that they can do…
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the end of the desk?
I have a wireless laptop, and have been wireless for something approaching three years now. During that time, my need for and use of a traditional desk has progressively diminished. The idea of sitting at a desk to accomplish anything has started to become outmoded in my mind, and my idea of the perfect office…
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Treasure Island
ok, so over on Slashdot there is this story about someone dropping $26K and change for a “Treasure Island” in some MMORPG. Ok, so is this cool? I’m not sure, but here is an idea that if I were the developer of one of these MMORPGs: sell one-of-a-kind items on both e-bay and in-game, so…
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An idea for distributed project management
Premise: The tools are already out there. The tools for project management are, in large part, already developed and deployed. I say this for two reasons – 1) project management is more art than science and, as such, there is a broad and fuzzy domain in which “Project Management” happens; 2) the suites and monolithic…
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the right tools for the job…
There is nothing worse than trying to hammer nails with the butt end of a screwdriver or jam the corner of the standard screwdriver bit into the Phillips screw slot. Having the right tool makes working on something so much more enjoyable. Technology is all about using tools, but it’s also about creating the tools…
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more virtual worlds
I’ve never gotten into the MMORPG thing, mostly because I haven’t got the time or money to indulge my want. But one thing has always been askew in the view I have of these games. That thing is that they are too contrived. Let’s face it, paper and pencil RPGs were all about a thin…
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intertwinuglarity….
i wish i had written this – I also wish that there was a year on the date… Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged — people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled. Ted Nelson In the following, I outline a potential project to make…
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Information availability
In Spokane it seems that finding information about what is going on in the business community, specifically in the entrepreneurial community. There are plenty of things happening around town, and a lot of frenetic energy being generated by the various agencies whose job it is to ratchet up the hype and enthusiasm about doing business…
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technology and politics
Does technology – specifically highly-interconnected members of a democratic republic – offer a realistic means to wrest the control of the republic away from “They who have corrupted it”? To answer that requires that you accept the premise that the republic is corrupted in some way. That is a multifaceted argument of some passion that…