a blog about information
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”
I’m one of those soppy sentimental types who had “a football in his throat” and cried when watching Love Story in the early 1970s. I’m the kind of person who enjoyed listening to Herman’s Hermits. I can remember going to the cinema to see Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter with my brother in … Continue reading “I’m Into Something Good: A Saturday Stroll about Recommendations”
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”
Been meaning to write about this site for some time, just never got around to it. Take a look at this: Just looking at the table doesn’t really do it justice, so I would urge you to visit the site. As you mouse over the chart, you get blown-up examples of each type of visualisation. … Continue reading “Transition elements”
[Update: Joi has clarified what he meant, both in the comments here as well as on his blog. Do make sure you read the comments and his post. We learn through openness and transparency in our dialogues.] I’m a fan of Joi Ito. I’m a fan of Creative Commons. But I am not a fan … Continue reading “A simple desultory philippic about copyright”