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Some cultural concepts haven't really made it across the Atlantic and into my brain despite subliminal hints for years ("Daydream Believer"). It may be the same for you but in reverse in November ("Guy Fawkes"). Pep?!?
Commented Oct 11, 2010 on exogenous trending topics at sippey.com
exogenous trending topics
danah boyd has a great post up about endogenous v. exogenous trending topics on Twitter, after seeing "Pep Rally" make it to the list. It’s Friday in the middle of October. A lot of high schools will have homecoming games tonight. Whenever there’s a homecoming game in the States (and often for ...
I think William Gibson said the same thing. As life goes by and I realise that if I had the time there's actually not that much I'd be good at, like writing. I like not having started writing.
Commented Oct 1, 2010 on putting it behind you at sippey.com
putting it behind you
I had lunch last week with a writer I admire and whose work I love. It was one of those perfect San Francisco days; cool breeze, warm sun, and we sat on the stoop across from Little Skillet and enjoyed some fried chicken and cole slaw. We talked about media, magazines, book publishing, the iPad, ...
I'm embarrased to say I almost got to the bottom before I figured out what you were doing with all that strikethrough.
Commented Sep 14, 2010 on forked: forking is a feature at sippey.com
forked: forking is a feature
This post is a fork of Anil Dash's Forking is a Feature. And yeah, sure, I could have done this on GitHub, and boy wouldn't that have been clever. While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it's one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that ma...
The BBC is blocked everywhere apart from the UK because only people in the UK pay the TV license fee.
Commented Dec 11, 2009 on an EC2-based proxy for spotify? at sippey.com
an EC2-based proxy for spotify?
A chat from this morning, prompted by the apple + lala post. > **friend:** Spotify just needs to launch in the US **me:** or i need to move to the uk **friend:** I can't believe somebody hasn't figured out an ec2/europe proxy thing for it yet **me:** someone probably has. and they're just keep...
The thing I like about OpenDNS is the basic filtering it offers.
Commented Dec 4, 2009 on differentiated dns at sippey.com
differentiated dns
David Jacobs points to OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch's post on Google DNS. (Thanks, David!) The graf that DJ pulled is interesting, but so is this one: It means that Google is bringing awareness to a wide audience that there is a choice when it comes to DNS and that users don’t have to settle ...
I can't get onto the US iTunes store without a US credit card (I'm in the UK) even though it's free. *sigh*
Commented Jul 15, 2009 on FREE audiobook on iTunes (free, natch) at The Long Tail
FREE audiobook on iTunes (free, natch)
The free audiobook of FREE is now on iTunes, with some very nice front page promotion. Podcast serialized version coming up soon. For those outside the US, you can stream or download the MP3s at wired.com. The Kindle version should be out later this week, along with some other ebook readers.
Minor correction on page 136 (btw I can see the scribd version in the UK). You say "listeners and viewers pay a yearly tax on their radios and TVs and get the ad-free BBC in return". The tax (licence fee) is only on TVs. If you only own a radio you're onto a winner.
Commented Jul 10, 2009 on The priceless rollout continues: Google Books at The Long Tail
The priceless rollout continues: Google Books
FREE is now available for free on Google Books, too. Like Scribd, this one is a web-based screen reading experience, but it has the added advantage of a live Table of Contents (see above), so you can easily get from chapter to chapter or pull up sidebars without having to page through the boo...
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