'Technology' Category
Pulling a Fast One
The “Falsity in Advertising” award for the week goes to Disney’s DVD division, for their wonderful “Fast Play” technology. “Fast Play” is supposed to be a way of helping small children get the movie started with a smaller number of clicks. In practice, it serves to infuriate this parent because it locks you [...]
Proud and Tickled
I have to say that I am immensely proud of all the Red Cross disaster relief workers who have used New Media tools to share the word about what is really happening. You guys have really picked up the ball and run with it — and now more than ever it’s important to showcase what [...]
Save the Date
South by Deep South is really happening. No joke.
September 26-28 in Birmingham. We picked a date that did not conflict with either a Crimson Tide home game nor a NASCAR event. As it happens, we’ll also have the 10th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival going on, so it ought to be an amazing [...]Victim of Success
I’ve never been a big fan of that phrase, because in nearly every case where it is used the pluses outweigh the minuses. But often success means growth, growth means popularity, and popularity means uqibquity; and that something special isn’t so special when everyone is doing it.
This rant is about Twitter. I don’t [...]News Happens Slow
I can get stock information in real-time, and can monitor the scores and play-by-play of games with each passing instant. When a noteworthy person dies, the appropriate Wikipedia page is updated long before I get to it. I’ve been alerted to a number of natural disasters within moments through my growing Twitter community.
However, [...]
