Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products, but they are still just as important today as they were a couple of [...]
The assumption that the TV networks = “content” is untrue. The nets filter, finance, package and promote the content. they aren’t Mike Tyson, they’re Don King. Not Vincent Chase, but Ari Gold. The big play everyone in the middle of the food chain needs to fear (everyone that is except for production companies and consumers) [...]
We are all many. Whether you call them “masks” or “hats” we all have several we shuffle through each day. Not only are we interested in consuming different categories of content, but we are interested in creating content in different categories as well, thereby presenting specific facets of ourselves to the sundry social spaces we each occupy. To that end, Twitter should implement some notion of “personae”, in recognition of this idea that each of us are (perhaps subtly) different things within different social contexts, and might like to preserve the separation of those spheres in our social media.
If it’s optimized for a search engine, it’s *not* being optimized for me. I want my content to be HIO – human intelligence optimized.
Inspired by Jen Corace’s facebook status update:
“Jen Corace is watching battle of the planets, g force…they’re fearless orphans people!”
I present a song I made 15 years ago, based on a recording of my dad and I playing battle of the planets 31 years ago. I’m old.
Here is “you’ll see little birdies.“ There are about 15 [...]
Am loving this analog pixel art using crayons by Christian Faur. What I first read as an approximation of digital glitching/artifacting, in the form of patterns of off-color pixels thrown in throughout, turns out to be a steganographic cipher, hiding messages within the images. Each image has a letter/color mapping key at the bottom left.
I [...]
A few days ago, it was rumored that Twitter would begin charging brands for commercial use. This was soon denied, and rightly so — it makes no sense, as it’s just impossible to adequately delineate. There’s been talk of charging for “brand verification” as well, to ensure, say, that the person who claims to be [...]
He was a musician I was somewhat fascinated with in the 90s, and I just discovered today that he’s keeping a daily blog that’s pretty damn great. In today’s post he drops some wisdom about the cyclicity of cultural aesthetics. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but I do love the phrase “the anxious echo.” Definitely worth a [...]
Well, sort of. Nearby Tweets just uses the location you stated at registration time, but it’s a very cool user-discovery feature nonetheless. I love an app like this — it does one thing, and does it well. It throws a simple user interface on something that was already available in the twitter API (thanks for [...]
Looks like a preview of the new muxtape.com is up, and while it has a certain aesthetic appeal, I’m not quite sure what niche it’s trying to fill. I mean, obviously it’d like to be what myspace has been in the past — a turnkey online presence for artists, simple to use and appealing to [...]
Tony Zito is a digital media/community guy, lo-fi musician, and generally decent person based in Portland, Oregon. He is currently looking for smart people to do wonderful things with.
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