January 2004
January 29, 2004
Notes on Shlain
A few raw notes from Leonard Shlain's talk at the SFPL last night: In the Alphabet vs. the Goddess, Shlain posited a startling theory about the effects of alphabetic literacy on the human brain, suggesting that the advent of the...
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January 28, 2004
Shlain on Sex, Time & Power
Looking forward to seeing Leonard Shlain at the San Francisco Public Library tonight, reading from his new book Sex, Time & Power. I haven't read yet, but much admired his previous book The Alphabet vs. the Goddess (reviewed here). bonus...
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January 28, 2004
Just in time ...
Introvertster...
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January 27, 2004
Will to Power(point)
Nietzsche, reduced to bullet points: We have free will There is no God Social conformity should not hold us back The interests of others should not restrain us We should be passionate beings Masculinity, strength and passion are the highest...
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January 26, 2004
meta-mumbo-jumbo
A good article untangling the various flavors of "metamodels" like controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies et al. (via antenna)...
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January 26, 2004
Pet wars redux?
No surer sign that an Internet bubble is fixing to burst than the emergence of the "pure pet play": Dogster (insert your own joke here about social networking software going to the dogs)...
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January 23, 2004
Personas 1.0?
Peter is doing some worthwhile digging into the heritage of user-centered design, focusing lately on the work of 1950s designer Henry Dreyfuss, who may just be the father of personas: > Peterme on Designing for People...
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January 22, 2004
Or-what?
Hot on the heels of its fizzled Friendster bid, Google is making its foray into social networking before the buzzword-bubble bursts, with the newly stealth-launched (and desperately-in-need-of-a-naming-consultant) Orkut. CNET: Google spawns social networking service...
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January 19, 2004
The Hallucinatory Encyclopedia (via Heckler & Coch)...
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January 17, 2004
Up from the archives
I recently discovered a box of old floppies up in the attic, wherein I found a bunch of long-lost magazine pieces from my starving-freelancer days. Mostly forgettable stuff (tips on selecting granite for your kitchen, anyone?), but I came across...
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January 17, 2004
New Methods for Designing Experiences (via NBS)...
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January 15, 2004
Visualizing social networks
Clay Shirky points to a nifty academic paper on Visualizing Social Networks. (via M2M)...
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January 13, 2004
The price of loyalty
My old teacher and former editor Ron Suskind is making all kinds of waves this week with his new book The Price of Loyalty, a damning account of life inside the Bush White House, fueled largely by interviews and...
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January 12, 2004
The database of intentions
Just stumbled across John Battelle's new Searchblog, in which the former Wired and Industry Standard honcho expounds on the search wars, and pre-hypes his book-in-progress, tentatively entitled The Search: Business and Culture in the Age of Google - complete with...
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January 11, 2004
My So-Called Blog
Emily Nussbaum on teen blogging and adolescent angst, from today's Sunday Times magazine: A result of all this self-chronicling is that the private experience of adolescence -- a period traditionally marked by seizures of self-consciousness and personal confessions wrapped in...
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January 9, 2004
Prayer wheels over Manhattan?
The shining tower planned for the gawked-upon gap of the World Trade Center may be the first skyscraper to pray for its city. The designer of the wind turbines that will occupy the top of the "Freedom Tower" wants...
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January 7, 2004
Deconstruct this
E.O. Wilson on the rise of postmodernism, with this eloquent backhanded compliment: [H]ere is a salute to the postmodernists. As today's celebrants of corybantic Romanticism, they enrich culture. They say to the rest of us: Maybe, just maybe, you are...
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January 3, 2004
Flea-bitten
One of my favorite places is the Antique Center and Flea Mart in Richmond, VA, down at the corner of Hull and Belt Boulevard, in the low-rent avenue district of old Southside. I grew up spending adolescent weekends here, hunting...
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January 2, 2004
From FOAF, Flocking and the Semantics of Starlings: [T]he issues the TAG members are discussing are related to what's happening with FOAF among the weblogging community. It is a microcosm of the Semantic Web, with its rich possibilities and its...
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