Last week the Italian news magazine L’Espresso had a great two page spread interviewing Jeff Pulver about video on the net. It’s part of their annual look ahead issue “Challenges for 2007″ and contains interviews with 15 or 20 visionaries including Steve Jobs, Vint Cerf, Robert Reich, and others. Not bad company and of course […]
I’m taking advantage of the Christmas week to catch up a little on reading, and just went through Bruce Sterling’s final Wired column, in which he talks about how the internet is evolving and how we are entering what he calls the “post-internet” age, where the virtual and the actual are merging.
He references the recent […]
Imitation PollockOriginally uploaded by ampersmith.
Today I can do this.
Today I can be told about a cool web site, that lets you create your very own Jackson Pollock styled web painting. The site was made by Miltos Manetas, a contemporary artist, so I learn from his website. (And incidentally, the site is a great […]
Yesterday many people were unable to reach me via my Asterisk-based unified number system. They could call, but all they would get was dead air. It’s back up now, but it was certainly inconvenient. I called tech support at my VoIP provider (Broadvoice), and was told that there was an “issue” with a “third party […]
Tonight I went to OneWebDay’s Boston meeting, where founder Susan Crawford, board member David Isenberg, and others talked about OneWebDay and helped the group brainstorm about things we might do in Boston. It’s late, so all I’ll say is stay tuned, I’ll be helping with and writing more about OneWebDay in the future. But, go […]
Couldn’t make it to Freedom to Connect this year? Bummed because you’re not listening to Tim Wu talk right now?
Go ahead and tune in: live audio is here; live chat session is here, login as a guest. I’m Steve S. Be careful though, the chat session is live in […]