NYT on finding ourself in the cloud

Interesting bit from an article in the New York Times about self-tracking – this bit rang a bell in my head around humanity / culture driving technology creation to fulfil its desires. NYT Article One of the reasons that self-tracking is spreading widely beyond the technical culture that gave birth to it is that weContinueContinue reading “NYT on finding ourself in the cloud”

quote content-o-net

“And that’s how we get the American Cinternet. Don’t encircle it yourself. Get the feds to make ISPs into liable intermediaries forced to practice “self discipline” the Chinese way: a “graduated response” that encircles the Net, reducing it to something less: a spigot of filtered “content” that Hollywood approves. Television 2.0, coming up. Maybe somebodyContinueContinue reading “quote content-o-net”

EverPress – Re-visiting Evernote as blog publishing engine

Back in June last year I wrote about how I was trying to use Evernote as a way of publishing to my WordPress blog.  At that time, I was using a third party plug-in for Word Press called WP-o-matic to autopost entries from Evernote which I got from a RSS feed published from a publicContinueContinue reading “EverPress – Re-visiting Evernote as blog publishing engine”

2gether08 | JP recaps Cluetrain: we are human amidst the tech

JP identified five themes from Cluetrain: people are human beingspeople work in communities, and community extends beyond the walls of the firmhypelinks subvert hierarchies … and so conversations can go laterally, not just up and down the ladder of controlconversations are richer with the new tools available, and firms have less capacity to control theirContinueContinue reading “2gether08 | JP recaps Cluetrain: we are human amidst the tech”

Munging Evernote as a blog publishing engine

Update: If you are interested in this post, you may also like to read a later one I wrote that uses the wp plugin “Everpress”. I’ve been, and always am, looking for ways to streamline the process of getting the things I see online or come across on my computer out into the Intertubes -ContinueContinue reading “Munging Evernote as a blog publishing engine”