State of the Union - SF style
We decided to watch the State of the Union in true San Francisco style–on the wall of a Market Street building, via a video artist who distorts the tv image in various ways. It was more amusing than the straight feed, if a bit silly.
The most interesting part was [...]
Terrorist Attack |
Originally uploaded by beckster.
I’ve been thinking a lot about online reputation lately. Maureen Dowd, in her new book “Are Men Necessary“, talks about how it’s common for people to Google their dates before going out with them to get a sense for who they are. Given how much of our lives are moving [...]
The other day I wrote a response to a WSJ piece about how computer science students are outsourcing their homework to India. I’m all for it. I’m also for allowing students over the age of 10 to use any information technology they want to solve the problems they’re given in school. I’m definitely for crushing [...]
I discovered that Jspad commented on my previous post via del.icio.us:
Thor points out Ethan Stock’s user contributed content and the classifications associated with it. I am not so sure it works as it seems more of a how much of each element is it rather than distinct classes.
He makes a good point–there are no hard [...]
Stackin’
Originally uploaded by courtneyp.
I just rediscovered this series of grapefruit shots from our party, taken a week ago. Throwing a big party like that is a ton of fun, but having it captured by photogs like CourtneyP, Scott Beale and others makes it resonate so much longer.
After the high of the party and its [...]
Ethan Stock wrote a helpful piece last week, User-Created Content: Selfish, Social, Selfless, about the three distinct species (classes? families? orders?) of user created content (UCC). They break down like this: “Selfish UCC”, content like del.icio.us bookmarks, which is created by users for personal benefit only; “Social UCC” such as blogs, created as a [...]
Today’s WSJ ran a story, “Some Students Use Net to Hire Experts to Do Their School Work.” The article covers how some party-happy computer science students are using sites like Rent A Coder to get their homework assignments done. It seems obvious to the author, Lee Gomes, and others that this is an educational tragedy [...]
My Stickered Powerbook
Originally uploaded by courtneyp.
At first I was disappointed that the printer got the line thickness of the Rubyred grapefruit design wrong (it’s too thick). But now that I’m seeing it around I think it’s not bad. It’s fun to see our logo on laptops, signposts and bags, even if people aren’t quite sure [...]
The Ruby Red team
Originally uploaded by veen.
We sent a few folks some New Years grapefruits–our way of saying thanks for the support in 2005. Adaptive Path got a batch and took the opportunity to convert the rubyreds into our likeness. Though Jeff posted the photo, I heard it was Rachel Brune who actually did the [...]
Amy mentioned that she bought a small cloud blanket for a friend’s baby shower, and I said “that’s nice, dear.” A few weeks later she casually mentioned that our friends had bought one for their unborn baby, and one each for the two of them. “Isn’t that a bit indulgent?” I thought of asking, but [...]