I recently posted about annoying Robocalls that I’ve received. In response to them, I’ve changed my phone setting so that no one who hides their phone number can call me. But that hasn’t stopped the robocallers. I just received my 40th or so “second notice” about my auto-warranty. This time, I [...]
Here’s a provocative video. It received a warm reception at e-thePeople and nice discussion. Here’s how I described it on etp:
Where do you find the time to participate in e-thepeople? Clay Shirky suggests that e-thepeople, wikipedia and other participatory media find the time by tapping into the cognitive surplus, the 200 billion hours [...]
This guy raised $100k in a couple of days for his campaign for state representative in Kansas with 3000 donations of $8.34 or more. It’s a big inside tech joke, but it’s working. I don’t think that this particular gimmick can work too many times, but the nationalization of fundraising for local elections [...]
My neighbor asked me: “The polls show that McCain is now tied with Obama - could Obama really lose this election?”
No. Obama cannot lose the election.
Why? Two reasons. First, I believe the polls overstate McCain support because of how they estimate likely voters. They are greatly undercounting the new voters [...]
On both my home phone, and now on my cell, I’ve been receiving warnings that my auto warranty may have expired. In fact, each one of these warnings is “my second notice.” The new form of spam–robocalls–may be much worse than its email cousin. Like email spam, robocalls abuse cheap communication technology [...]
Jawed Karim, a co-founder of YouTube and current Stanford student, gave an excellent talk about the lessons of youtube. (The talk is from 2006, but I just watched it today for the first time.) If you have ADD, skip to a little past 40 minutes and you can catch some video of despair after [...]
I have always cursed Comcast for limiting my upstream bandwidth. It takes so long to to upload pictures to smugmug, VoIP can get garbled, etc. So, today I have AT&T installing u-verse into my house so that I increase my upstream bandwidth by a factor of 20x or more. Yeah!
But for even [...]
Here’s the ultimate status symbol: a red glowing ball for your iphone that costs $999.99! Yup, that’s what you get (and nothing else) when you buy the ‘i am rich’ application for the iPhone. And 8 people bought it before Steve Jobs yanked it from the app store. Curiosity + one-click purchasing [...]
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