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About Chomsky, Twitter and irony 30 Oct 2011 | 03:00 pm
The topic of this post is an article by Nathan Jurgenson: Why Chomsky is wrong about Twitter. Go read the full article, because I'm going to do Nathan's thing and pull out some quotes. I'll be right h...
Making sense of the new iPhone lineup 5 Oct 2011 | 03:00 pm
Update (October 7th, 2011): I wrote and published this post in the early morning of October 5th. I had no idea how different some parts of it will read on the afternoon of the very same day (in partic...
Democracy 26 Aug 2011 | 03:01 pm
There is a proverb: "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner." What a gross oversimplification, I thought. It doesn't do democracy justice at all. Democracy is complex and colo...
How to tweet (or not) during a crisis 26 Aug 2011 | 03:00 pm
With Hurricane Irene approaching the East Coast of the U.S., I thought it may be useful to collect and repost some of my observations about the common Twitter troubles we've caused upon ourselves duri...
Don't drop the torch 25 Aug 2011 | 03:00 pm
Some of you may know how I feel about Steve Jobs' resignation yesterday, and to the rest I find it hopeless to express in words. I won't try. Although symbolic on its own, this resignation is one step...
Suddenly, a Photoshop tutorial: avoiding gradient banding with 16 bit color mode 17 Aug 2011 | 06:13 pm
The problem I was browsing Louie Mantia's blog (a really talented designer), and noticed this tutorial about using Photoshop's Spatter filter to remove gradient banding. Of course, it works by accide...
Google's big plans for Motorola: just staying above water level 15 Aug 2011 | 03:00 pm
Here are the facts as I see them with the Google - Motorola (Mobility) pending acquisition: Microsoft were in negotiations to buy Motorola for their patent portfolio and disbanding the hardware unit ...
Mac on ARM 22 Jun 2011 | 03:00 pm
I wanted to sum up my thoughts on a possible transition for Mac computers from Intel to ARM. If Apple makes a switch, it'll be their fourth time for a desktop platform, so it's certainly not as shock...
Nokia N9 and MeeGo 21 Jun 2011 | 03:00 pm
Nokia N9 is a new mid-range smartphone with MeeGo OS and, boy, are the media confused about it. Didn't Nokia abandon MeeGo? Are they about to abandon MeeGo? Why is Microsoft allowing this? Here's the ...
The Anthony Weiner Twitter story as a mini-case study in PR 16 Jun 2011 | 03:00 pm
Companies make mistakes. People make mistakes. And when the public and the media focus on these mistakes, there is explaining to do. But it's the kind of explanations & reactions I consistently see th...
