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There’s a common mondegreen to do with Killing Me Softly With His Song: apparently, people hear the first words as “strumming my fate with his fingers” rather than “strumming my pain with his fingers”. But the title of this post is no mondegreen: Yes, there’s now a decent guitar app for the iPhone: PocketGuitar, available … Continue reading “Strumming my phone with his fingers”
Stu Berwick told me about this via Twitter: Stimulus Watch. What Stimulus Watch does is to take the list of “Ready-To-Go” projects published by the US Conference of Mayors, convert them into a wiki and thereby empower readers to comment on the projects, enrich the data, “vote” on the projects. There’s lots to like about … Continue reading “Thinking about earmarks and democratisation”
When I look at the digital implementations of social networks of today, they appear to have a core made up of five things: a directory or address book the ability to group people in the directory support for different modes of communication between people the ability to schedule meetings between the people a way of … Continue reading “Monday morning musing about social networks”
I have some friends who talk to me exclusively through Facebook. My phone and my e-mail are displayed there for my friends. But most of the time, they talk to me through Facebook. Currently, the number of Facebook friends is somewhere in the 700s. They cover my family, my school, my university, my church, my … Continue reading “thinking about connections”
I’m a passionate person. I’m passionate about the people that matter to me, the ideas I believe in, the things that I enjoy. And I make no secret of this. Just read the About Me page on this blog and you will get what I mean. Or for that matter the Kernel For This Blog … Continue reading “On passion”