Archive for August, 2008
I found this interview with Tim O’Reilly on collective intelligence and Web 2.0 rather fascinating. (Does that make me a total geek?) Some tidbits:
Google’s realization that links were a kind of user generated “voting” on the best site for a topic (i.e. Page Rank) and could be used to deliver better search results was arguably [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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Days With My Father reminds me of why I fell in love with the web: it’s such a powerful medium for self-expression. It’s easy to forget this when most of my commissioned work has an entirely different focus.
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Art, Life.
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Recently we discovered an HBO series at our local indie video store: Flight of the Conchords, a series born of the comedy-music duo of the same name. (They bill themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”.)
The show builds on their great stage act by using their satirical songs (mostly) [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Culture Consumed, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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