Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Comcast is well known for outrageously poor customer service, but seem to be taking steps to remedy the situation. One of their more successful and visible prongs of attack is the Comcastcares account on Twitter. Frank Eliason, the Comcast employee who is behind the account, is an extremely helpful and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Thanks to J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly, I happened across this wonderful video of Ira Glass from This American Life giving some very good advice on the importance of being tenacious when you set out to do something great.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
One of my interests in social computing is the manner in which it 'changes the game' for employees who find themselves in corporations that have communication problems. It can disintermediate the broken channels of communication to create new functioning channels that operate below the threshold of corporate scrutiny.
In situations ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I am a proponent of the Bittorrent protocol, but I find that when I try to describe the process of downloading a file via Bittorrent to someone their eyes glaze over because the number of steps just seems so cumbersome.
Torrent2Exe is a free web utility that takes torrent ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Oh, Mo Rocca, how we loved you on the Daily Show and then on those things that you were on intermittently, and we would see from time to time on Comedy Central, MTV or wherever it was that you had found a niche. We never thought you would shill for ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Check your throttled status effortlessly with Glasnost. It mimics Bittorrent traffic over your network connection to determine whether or not your internet service provider is throttling Bittorrent transfers.
It accomplishes this by measuring the difference in speed between regular downloads (of porn, for example) and Bittorrent downloads, using ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I've never found the video recommendation systems employed by the likes of Netflix, Amazon or Blockbuster to be particularly accurate. I've seen many movies--approaching 3,000 by my estimate, and it might be that is simply too much information--some of it conflicting--to be of any use to the algorithms designed ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
One of the features of the social networking applications I use is being able to see the music my friends are listening to. It gives me an occasion to reminisce over a nostalgic favorite song, or to discover something new.
Commissioned by BBC Audio & Music Interactive R&D, and ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Gina Trapani points out this talk from Clay Shirky where he discusses where people find the time to do things like edit the Wikipedia and maintain blogs. His take: they watch less television. Shirky takes the point of view that we are waking up from the "collective bender" of mindlessly ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Dan Savage has a scathing response for Garrison Keillor’s piece on marriage and family --a thinly veiled attack on same-sex marriage--over at Salon.
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