Learning Aesthetics

or at least makes it clear in its own way that we’re not as smart as we need to be Here’s a link to the NYT article that comments on the above image, we won’t say explains it. What occurs to me in that what it really demonstrates is that things are way complicated. Arguably [...]

The I Ching makes a not so subtle distinction between the “easy” and the “simple”. By way of example: lets say that there’s a mountain and for whatever reason we need to get to the top. The “easy” solution is to rent a helicopter, or if you’d prefer we could design and build a funicular [...]

photo credit: Nesster Up to this point I’ve been assuming that I didn’t have a student readership, but now that I’m teaching a class… Oh well, my real point is that we can’t turn off the electricity, so I may as well post this.  This Tweet just in form Michael Wesch: “Chacha … new ways [...]

…or this is probably headed somewhere. This particular thread started with a post in IF:book ‘looking at libraries‘. Though you should keep in mind that it is thoroughly haunted my last post and Stephen Downes well taken point, “All authentication fails.” Actually it may have started with Chris Mesina’s Thoughts on Data Portability over on [...]

You may have noticed that I’m a bit obsessed with Seadragon and it’s various off shoots, but I just stumbled on a more home grown approach to getting more text on the page.  Take a look at Issue Magazine which is just out; it’ll take some experimenting to get the interface but that’s part of [...]

  I’m not sure that the retro-design trend makes sense, but there are some interesting possibilities in the no button approach.  Click below for a brief description or on the above picture for the original concept. E-book concept combines leather and multi-touch – Engadget

Some while back Google acquired Jotspot and generated a fair amount of geek speculation about what was coming. We’re about to find out because sometime today Google Sites is supposed to go live. Even more exciting, or depending on you taste ‘frightening’, you can try out Google Apps Premium for a 30 day free trial. [...]

Another multitasking exercise; I often find myself stumbling across tools that I think might be useful one day and it occurs to me that if I file them here I might be able to find them later.  Beyond that they might be useful to you now.  So, here’s a review of 8 online text editors, [...]

Subtitled the price of free… As I mentioned I’ve been doing some stuff for a couple of local arts organizations and not surprisingly cost of service is an issue.  In other words it pretty much needs to be free.  This isn’t a problem in and of itself; there are more free services than I can [...]

For the past while I’ve been wondering why I spend $100 a year for web hosting.  I could get all the services, blog, email, etc. for free, and I don’t think that Google or Microsoft is going out of business anytime soon. Yahoo I’m not so sure about, but still.  Here’s a horror story by [...]