Category: Technology
Why, Texas Tech, Why???
This is a screenshot for an internal Texas Tech site labeled “Experts Guide”. The site is designed so that experts in fields can say that they are experts in the field and gain recognition and other people in Texas Tech can call upon the resources available at Texas Tech to work on projects. Okay so […]
Don’t Let Google See Your Private Information
There was a story in Techcrunch today about a hosting provider (Meteora Technologies Group) that accidentally revealing revealed a dump of Kleiner Perkins’s iFund database. The moral of the story don’t even put stuff publicly online that you don’t want Google (or the public) to find out about. Google isn’t just good at their job, […]
Google Code Jam 2008
Google has a programming contest called Code Jam. The registration for which opened up today. I signed up for it just a few moments ago. Although I probably won’t be able to compete as much as I would like to, due to both having classes and work that day, this sort of thing is important […]
Have You Tried Firefox Yet?
Just saying if you haven’t tried Firefox yet, why not do so today and help set a Guinness World Record.
The Problem With Radio
Last weekend I went on a trip with my current girlfriend, we went and drove about 6 hours to her younger brother’s high school graduation. Her car doesn’t have a CD player or an input line for an mp3 player, so we were forced to resort to the radio for when we wanted to listen […]
Flickr Marketing
Why doesn’t Flickr go to weddings, high school graduations and the such and hand out free subscriptions to Flickr. Promote it exactly as the way to share all your photos with the relatives without having to email around a bunch of photos or hand out cds. This has to be the cheapest and best way […]
Living and Creating Online: Part 2
Part 1: I talked about just how much of my life is now online, searchable and archived, along with some of the basic reasons as to why I do this. I know want to make people feel better and let them know what I don’t post online. I never post anything about someone else unless […]
Living and Creating Online: Part 1
An interesting phenomenon has been happening with my life recently. I’m moving a ridiculous amount of data online. Just look at the sidebar of this blog to see all the data I have online that is publicly available to anyone. You have what products I am interested in buying, what I am reading online, photos […]
The Chasm Will Never Be Crossed
A recent blog post on technology adoption made it’s way to me. The premise of the post is the idea that technology is starting to become so ubiquitous that youth are accepting technology without any hesitation or any great caution. Ummm, no. This is the same sort of theory that has been passed around from […]
The Rise of the Generalist
Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he […]