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Category Archives: Personal

On the Perils of Email Forwarding

I received a presentation titled SHOTINTHEFANNIEMAE.pdf recently from a forwarded email. First off, if you INSIST on using all caps, which is OBNOXIOUS, then please SEPARATE your WORDS with WHITESPACE_OR_UNDERSCORES. Or hyphens. Something! Please. Thanks.
All in all, it is a politicized perspective of the Fannie Mae situation and who is to blame. Which [...]

Scattering your attention for fun and profit

I value my attention; I’ve been paying attention to my attention for quite a few years actually. In this fantastic article from The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr connects together some disturbing trends about Google and the Web in general.
When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. It injects the [...]

Can Twitter Remain Personal?

One of my favorite things about Twitter is that it is personal.  Sometimes it is funny, sometimes serious. With the people I follow at least, the ethos feels pretty good. However, I’ve recently gotten many twitters in a row (echo chamber style) that are quite clearly all about marketing. Apparently, some of my friends have been [...]