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Interesting that they didn't include any "modern" art, much less "contemporary".
Commented May 10, 2011 on art makes you feel good at sippey.com
art makes you feel good
Across the wire comes news that scientists have found that art makes you feel good. We put people in a scanner and showed them a series of paintings every ten seconds. We then measured the change in blood flow in one part of the brain. The reaction was immediate. What we found was the increase ...
I wonder how all the ads from the underlying BonApetit site (to take your example above) will be displayed?
Commented Dec 5, 2010 on flipboard pages as media delivery engine at sippey.com
flipboard pages as media delivery engine
From the information on Flipboard.com about their new Pages (product? service?) effort... Flipboard Pages are built on a lightweight JavaScript engine that lays out articles in a paginated format optimized for iPad. Through semantic analysis, the taxonomy of an article is broken down into ess...
I summarize your point as "Social networks are effective at building new social/cultural/economic patterns and institutions that will replace their outmoded predecessors without direct attack/confrontation." Which I think is largely true. But what if the old guard won't *let* you grow those alternatives?
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WarOnTheNet
Commented Sep 30, 2010 on Make The Revolution at dashes.com
Make The Revolution
Malcolm Gladwell gets as close as he can to saying "The revolution will not be Twittered" in this week's New Yorker, condemning social media's ability to enact real cultural change with an argument he sums up early in the piece: The evangelists
1. I think the way that Google has engineered their capital structure (different classes of stock, etc.) had signalled "We're not necessarily going to mindlessly seek to maximize shareholder value." So I'm not convinced they "should be doing what's right for them to maximize the long term value for their shareholders".
2. I agree with your point that selling out wireless neutrality seems very shortsighted. Unless that's just a next-12-months phase of gamesmanship. Because who can tell, once their behavior is limited only by what's "within their rights"?
3. Until (heh) there's much more reliability/interop, gadget purchasing becomes an investment in an ecosystem. Last week I was impatient for a good Android tablet. That ardor has cooled.
Commented Aug 12, 2010 on surrender monkeying at sippey.com
surrender monkeying
Google’s real problem is that it hasn’t found sufficient ways to diversify its revenue stream beyond its still stunningly profitable search ads. Now, those just aren’t growing the way they have been, and Google is struggling to find another gold vein to mine. (snip) It no longer made financial s...
So, it's their duty-for-shareholders to do whatever they can get away with within the boundaries of lobbyist-influenced law?
Not a great year to fall back on that argument....
Commented Aug 11, 2010 on surrender monkeying at sippey.com
surrender monkeying
Google’s real problem is that it hasn’t found sufficient ways to diversify its revenue stream beyond its still stunningly profitable search ads. Now, those just aren’t growing the way they have been, and Google is struggling to find another gold vein to mine. (snip) It no longer made financial s...
Hmm would that (the Processing environment) be allowed?
Commented Jun 10, 2010 on programmable "keyboards" at sippey.com
programmable "keyboards"
I liked this little gem in the Ars piece about Loren Brichter and Tweetie development. > He did say, however, that that he looks forward to the day he can develop code on the iPad and ditch his Mac for creating software. "If you break the idea that we have to use software keyboards the traditiona...
But have you bought one of her books? Would you pay to go to one of her shows?
To half-quote-myself, she's the Maxim of comedy.
Commented Mar 31, 2010 on salon on chelsea at sippey.com
salon on chelsea
The sad truth is that, outside of her "I love to drink! Look at my ass!" comfort zone, Handler has remarkably little to say. But, hey, if college taught us anything, it's that a girl can go far on "I love to drink! Look at my ass!" Like, say, the New York Times bestseller list. via www.salon.co...
"To the Bookmobile. My thirst must be slaked..."
20min later, the nondescript van pulls up to a bookstop on the information superhighway. The window lowers, and a pale finger bekons outside. "You, the postmodern cookbook. Yessss, you'll do fine....."
Commented Feb 13, 2010 on kindle as service v. kindle as product at sippey.com
kindle as service v. kindle as product
Andrew blogs the rumor that Amazon is going to give Kindles away to their Prime subscribers[1], and comments... > But I don't know... there's something about it that still just doesn't feel right to me. Most of my heavy reading friends love theirs (I'm looking at you Sippey). I'm buying an iPad a...
As Yogi says, it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
I'm a little skeptical that, under the scenario of a new Republican president, this group will be as large/loud in stopping *that* guy's big-gov policies.
More importantly, as you've pointed out, guerilla movements usually fail at actually accomplishing anything positive, vs blocking the actions of others. I think that tends to result in more-pathological govt programs because anything *coherent* gets shouted down, but Congress always finds *something* to pass, so it's a huge mess.
Commented Feb 5, 2010 on THE TEA PARTY at Global Guerrillas
THE TEA PARTY
"It's a leaderless movement" former House majority leader Dick Armey The Tea Party movement in the US is an open source political protest. It emerged due to a substantial loss of government legitimacy (primarily from the mishandling of the global financial crisis) and continues to percolate as...
Have you tried http://m.businessweek.com/ ?
I'm not quite clear on what your desire is. Is it pretty "page" layouts? Offline use?
Or are those "feed" apps just raw text with no images at all?
Commented Jan 26, 2010 on Has the Magazine Industry Heard of the iPhone? at Joe Wikert's DisruptorFest
Has the Magazine Industry Heard of the iPhone?
What is the magazine industry waiting for? The iPhone is now 3 years old and there appears to be little to no interest in creating paid apps with their content. Go to the App Store, search for "magazine" and look at the hodgepodge results. Many of the ones that actually have apps treat them mo...
Maybe you could get some people to try different things (wood pellets, geothermal), and share info about results/hints...
Commented Jan 19, 2010 on Heating Costs - The largest cost to most families - Local Energy! #peakoil at Robert Paterson's Weblog
Heating Costs - The largest cost to most families - Local Energy! #peakoil
We had a fill up this week of our heating oil tanks - The bill was just under $1,000. We will have one more at least before May. I looked back at oil prices in 2004, they were half of what they are today. The average income on PEI is less than $25,000. The average oil bill is more than $2,500 a...
I'd forgotten that scene, what a classic. (The scene and the series. I've even take the later seasons of lots of other junk....)
Commented Jan 19, 2010 on an anecdote of no small amusement at sippey.com
an anecdote of no small amusement
Note to self: when finished with *Friday Night Lights*, rewatch all of *Twin Peaks*.
Blech, Calibre doesn't seem to be handling those 2-column pages well, either. Maybe it could, but I don't have the patience for it either!
(Note that Calibre will output epub and other ebook formats, but not HTML. But if you take an epub file and change its extension to .gzip, you can unzip as usual and find a directory of XHTML files, etc.)
Commented Dec 15, 2009 on why what matters now just won't at sippey.com
why what matters now just won't
I love Seth Godin as much as the next guy, but I'll just come out and say it -- there's a 99% chance that I won't read What Matters Now. It has nothing to do with the content -- there are people in there that I enjoy and respect. Instead, it has everything to do with the form. What Matters Now is...
Don't forget that Seth was key in creating ChangeThis, the ultimate PDFs-that-should-be-web-pages service.
I dunno how well it will handle the 2-column mess, but you might want to try Calibre, open-source software for converting document formats. I've generated epub files from book-length PDFs with a fair amount of success... (it might turn multi-column stuff which is really done like a table into an image)
http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from
Commented Dec 15, 2009 on why what matters now just won't at sippey.com
why what matters now just won't
I love Seth Godin as much as the next guy, but I'll just come out and say it -- there's a 99% chance that I won't read What Matters Now. It has nothing to do with the content -- there are people in there that I enjoy and respect. Instead, it has everything to do with the form. What Matters Now is...
Celebrity spouses could monitor the option prices. "Lucy, you got some splainin to do!"
Commented Dec 15, 2009 on and now? not so much. at sippey.com
and now? not so much.
James Surowiecki on Tiger Woods: "His appeal seemed to transcend sports, in the sense that his success was presented in things like the Accenture ads as exemplary not just of athletic ability, but of an approach to the world that other high-powered professionals could apply to their own jobs."
Though perhaps a class-action lawsuit for alienation of adulation would be appropriate.
Commented Dec 14, 2009 on and now? not so much. at sippey.com
and now? not so much.
James Surowiecki on Tiger Woods: "His appeal seemed to transcend sports, in the sense that his success was presented in things like the Accenture ads as exemplary not just of athletic ability, but of an approach to the world that other high-powered professionals could apply to their own jobs."
That's why I always buy Idol Insurance, so that if the processing of projecting my hopes and dreams onto the packaged-presentation of a distant celebrity should happen to lead to disappointment, I'm covered....
Commented Dec 14, 2009 on and now? not so much. at sippey.com
and now? not so much.
James Surowiecki on Tiger Woods: "His appeal seemed to transcend sports, in the sense that his success was presented in things like the Accenture ads as exemplary not just of athletic ability, but of an approach to the world that other high-powered professionals could apply to their own jobs."
After you hit the Reply button/link, look for an "Edit Subject" link above the reply form.
Commented Dec 12, 2009 on Solution To Long-Winded Emails at /Message
Solution To Long-Winded Emails
I do about 80% of my e-mails in the subject line. Short and to the point. The nice thing about the message in the subject line - it always gets read. via Mark of Connecticut bits.blogs.nytimes.com In Gmail, however, I don't know how to respond to emails in the subject line. I guess I could creat...
Are you sure this wasn't ghost-written by Will Ferrell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjaya_Malakar#Projects
Commented Dec 9, 2009 on james franco, performance artist at sippey.com
james franco, performance artist
Actor James Franco is treating his 23 episode stint on General Hospital as performance art, and he has a great piece about what he's doing in the Wall Street Journal. I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came ...
Making DRM schemes that support complicated transactions (lending, etc.) is the ass-backward answer. The answer is to stop believing that *this time* DRM will work. Give it up, settle on social-DRM, and keep things simple and consumer-friendly. The gains will outweigh the losses.
Commented Dec 7, 2009 on Making eBooks "The Next Big Thing" at Joe Wikert's DisruptorFest
Making eBooks "The Next Big Thing"
Over the past year or so I've been seeing a few more Kindles in airports and elsewhere. That's great, but ebooks and e-readers are far from a mass market phenomenon. This article by Michael Honig on TG Daily reminded me that the vast majority of potential customers not only don't own a dedicat...
snarkiest comment: "try a jitterbug"
Commented Dec 1, 2009 on because everyone loves a battle at sippey.com
because everyone loves a battle
Android v. iPhone is the new Windows v. Mac. Here's a representative comment on Stewart Alsop's post re. the trouble he had with his Droid: I’ve spent a lot of time with Android and it sounds to me like you don’t really understand what you’re doing or how the phone works. Yay, fanboys.
Oops, I see your next post gives lots more detail. (Is there Tumblr-reblog-spam to the extent that there's always been trackback-spam?)
Commented Nov 18, 2009 on Typepad Goes After Tumblr at /Message
Typepad Goes After Tumblr
Six Apart has made an announcement of new capabilities for Typepad:[via Announcing TypePad Micro] As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro: a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing ...
Wouldn't it make more sense to reblog via an RSS aggregator?
Commented Nov 18, 2009 on Typepad Goes After Tumblr at /Message
Typepad Goes After Tumblr
Six Apart has made an announcement of new capabilities for Typepad:[via Announcing TypePad Micro] As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro: a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing ...
Wow, someone did some vetting of her? Really?
Commented Nov 13, 2009 on sorry you lost; here's your invoice. at sippey.com
sorry you lost; here's your invoice.
The AP story reviewing the "highlights" of Sarah Palin's book had this interesting bit: She reveals that about one-tenth of the $500,000 [in legal bills] was a bill she received to pay for the McCain campaign vetting her for the VP nod. She said when she asked the McCain campaign if it would hel...
You'll have to watch mine in your head:
Organizing the Ubiquitous Imaginary
Commented Nov 4, 2009 on developing the ambient array at sippey.com
developing the ambient array
Do you love cities? And architecture? And computers? And vague phrases like "ambient arrays" and "biophysical mesh networks" and "knowable material"? Do you dress primarily in black? Then chances are you could probably use Molly Steenson's new Urban Informatics Speech Title Generator to help you...
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