Archives for the 'Internet' Category
Local matters: is an impulse worth $10?
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Yesterday, wandering through CD Trader here in the San Fernando Valley, I spotted an unpriced copy of the first season of Veronica Mars, of which I’d only seen half. I took it to the front desk and learned the price was $29.99. “It’s a used price, but the set [...]
The evolution of a tweet: or, Twitter as online writing coach
[Cross-posted with the iMedia blogs.] If you can master the haiku-like compression of Twitter’s 140 character limit (I’m followable at http://www.twitter.com/bradberens), and if you can then carry that powerful, high-information density compression forward into the rest of your online writing, then you’re almost halfway to mastering the most important genre of online writing: the subject [...]
Breakthrough keynoter Nolan Bushnell interviewed on Dishymix!
I’m delighted to share with you that my friend Susan Bratton just posted her interview with Breakthrough keynote speaker Nolan Bushnell (the visionary behind Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, uWink and others businesses) on her Dishymix site. The interview is entitled “20 Start Ups Later, on Chemical Engines, Existentialism and ‘My Cave’”– you can learn more [...]
Short/Zen Post: The beautiful work of Ron Mueck
We’re all stressed out and working too hard to go to a museum, so let the museum come to you. Here’s how. First, if you’re a Firefox user, download and install the Cool Iris plugin that can turn your browser into a never-ending wall of images (Thank You, Mark Silva, for introducing me to this). [...]
Uh-oh: “Add-Art” Firefox plugin doesn’t add art but effortlessly removes ads
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] A Facebook friend who consults in th industry (translation, he really ought to know better) just crowed about adding “Add-Art,” a free Firefox plugin that purports to replace display advertisements on major online publishers with images of contemporary art. Curious, I downloaded and installed the plugin, which reminds me [...]
