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FreedomBox Foundation
4 days ago by robertogreco
"What is FreedomBox?
Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and resists eavesdropping
A publishing platform that resists oppression and censorship.
An organizing tool for democratic activists in hostile regimes.
An emergency communication network in times of crisis.
FreedomBox will put in people's own hands and under their own control encrypted voice and text communication, anonymous publishing, social networking, media sharing, and (micro)blogging.
Much of the software already exists: onion routing, encryption, virtual private networks, etc. There are tiny, low-watt computers known as "plug servers" to run this software. The hard parts is integrating that technology, distributing it, and making it easy to use without expertise. The harder part is to decentralize it so users have no need to rely on and trust centralized infrastructure."
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freedombox
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Email and telecommunications that protects privacy and resists eavesdropping
A publishing platform that resists oppression and censorship.
An organizing tool for democratic activists in hostile regimes.
An emergency communication network in times of crisis.
FreedomBox will put in people's own hands and under their own control encrypted voice and text communication, anonymous publishing, social networking, media sharing, and (micro)blogging.
Much of the software already exists: onion routing, encryption, virtual private networks, etc. There are tiny, low-watt computers known as "plug servers" to run this software. The hard parts is integrating that technology, distributing it, and making it easy to use without expertise. The harder part is to decentralize it so users have no need to rely on and trust centralized infrastructure."
4 days ago by robertogreco
Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail
18 days ago by robertogreco
"Schedule an email to be sent later. Easy email reminders.
Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages."
scheduling
productivity
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Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages."
18 days ago by robertogreco
The Listserve Hopes To Revitalize The Quality Of Online Conversation Through The Oldest Online Social Network -- Email | TechPresident
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
"…five students at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program…intriguing class project/online social interaction experiment The Listserve, in which one person is chosen by lottery, & given the platform & opportunity to speak to a mass audience through e-mail in a one-shot deal…
"This project is about context, it’s about medium, it’s about messing with the dials, & pushing up the scale, & having this very free-flowing conversation."
Yet at the same time, it's going to be a very controlled conversation because only one person gets to post a day, & the goal is to get the self-selected readers to actually sit back, read & absorb the text from a stranger w/ whom they have nothing in common…
…there is no topic. Also, unlike regular community e-mail mailing lists, subscribers can't respond directly. The students have designed it so that readers have to respond elsewhere…the focus of the project is on the individual…"
communication
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commenting
socialobjects
2012
clayshirky
email
thelistserve
from delicious
"This project is about context, it’s about medium, it’s about messing with the dials, & pushing up the scale, & having this very free-flowing conversation."
Yet at the same time, it's going to be a very controlled conversation because only one person gets to post a day, & the goal is to get the self-selected readers to actually sit back, read & absorb the text from a stranger w/ whom they have nothing in common…
…there is no topic. Also, unlike regular community e-mail mailing lists, subscribers can't respond directly. The students have designed it so that readers have to respond elsewhere…the focus of the project is on the individual…"
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Carnivore
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Carnivore is a Processing library that allows you to perform surveillance on data networks. Carnivore listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Using Processing you are able to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in any way you wish.
network
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security
software
visualization
via:stml
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networks
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surveillance
traffic
web
online
email
localnetworks
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Jen Bekman: Observer Media: Design Observer
march 2012 by robertogreco
"Jen Bekman is a New York City gallerist, entrepreneur and writer. After building a successful internet career with companies including New York Online, Netscape, Disney and Meetup, Jen turned her internet experience and fresh perspective on to the art world. She is the founder of Jen Bekman Projects which encompasses three ventures: her eponymous gallery in NYC, Hey, Hot Shot!, a photography competition, and the pioneering e-commerce fine art print site, 20x200. 20x200's launch was entirely bootstrapped, and it quickly grew into a profitable, million dollar business. Jen was named one of Forbes.com’s Top Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch, as well as Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology."
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nyc
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community
accessibility
entrepreneurship
adhd
add
dropouts
glvo
art
design
email
web
online
jenbekman
via:litherland
from delicious
march 2012 by robertogreco
Claire Warwick's Blog: Inaugural lecture
february 2012 by robertogreco
"One of the great assets of the digital, and what it encourages and enables is multiple voices entering into a dialogue and creating new knowledge out of conversation and discussion."
"I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the greatest international authorities yet it was never assumed that their voice in the conversation was necessarily more important than mine. Far more important than who was talking was the quality of thought expressed and the nature of knowledge that emerged from the dialogue, and I think that's quite right."
"DH is…a collaborative field. We have to learn to work together and understand the different languages that are spoken by different partners in the dialogue: geeks, humanities scholars, information professionals, technical support people & indeed the public. In that sense, therefore, the voice of the DH scholar is of use as an interpreter between different languages & cultures. But interpreters cannot, but the nature of their job, exist in isolation."
information
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communication
diversity
complexity
email
affordances
gender
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curations
digitaldiversity
publicengagement
blogging
blogs
mentorships
mentoring
community
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socialmedia
facebook
twitter
socialization
media
context
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meaningmaking
meaning
makingmeaning
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dialog
knowledge
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2012
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learning
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education
teaching
academia
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_2012
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"I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the greatest international authorities yet it was never assumed that their voice in the conversation was necessarily more important than mine. Far more important than who was talking was the quality of thought expressed and the nature of knowledge that emerged from the dialogue, and I think that's quite right."
"DH is…a collaborative field. We have to learn to work together and understand the different languages that are spoken by different partners in the dialogue: geeks, humanities scholars, information professionals, technical support people & indeed the public. In that sense, therefore, the voice of the DH scholar is of use as an interpreter between different languages & cultures. But interpreters cannot, but the nature of their job, exist in isolation."
february 2012 by robertogreco
An eightfold path of Sylvianess - Bobulate
november 2011 by robertogreco
"4. Talk to everybody. All the time. About everything.
In the last three years, I have 1,200 emails from Sylvia. And half of those emails are her telling me about some other conversation she’s having – something fascinating she learned, someone she went to lunch with, someone I should look up. She was at the center of this constant circle of communication. And that was not only a very canny business strategy, but it was also a source of personal power: The power to transform people’s lives, and transform not just the lives of people she knew, but the lives of people who experienced the world she made.
I’m really trying hard to figure out: how do you be like Sylvia in that way, really embrace all the people around you?"
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sharing
learning
2011
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In the last three years, I have 1,200 emails from Sylvia. And half of those emails are her telling me about some other conversation she’s having – something fascinating she learned, someone she went to lunch with, someone I should look up. She was at the center of this constant circle of communication. And that was not only a very canny business strategy, but it was also a source of personal power: The power to transform people’s lives, and transform not just the lives of people she knew, but the lives of people who experienced the world she made.
I’m really trying hard to figure out: how do you be like Sylvia in that way, really embrace all the people around you?"
november 2011 by robertogreco
Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship - NYTimes.com
november 2011 by robertogreco
"Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, so hates wasting time at meetings that he once dumped his secretary to avoid being scheduled for them. He does not much like e-mail either — even his own Gmail — saying the tedious back-and-forth takes too long to solve problems…
Larry is [now] much more willing to make an O.K. decision and make it now, rather than a perfect decision later…
began requiring senior executives to show up at headquarters for an informal face-to-face meeting at least once a week to plow through decisions…forced him [Salar Kamangar] and another executive to settle a dispute in person that they had been waging over e-mail…"
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Larry is [now] much more willing to make an O.K. decision and make it now, rather than a perfect decision later…
began requiring senior executives to show up at headquarters for an informal face-to-face meeting at least once a week to plow through decisions…forced him [Salar Kamangar] and another executive to settle a dispute in person that they had been waging over e-mail…"
november 2011 by robertogreco
elearnspace › A few simple tools I want edu-startups to build [Quote is just one of three tools discussed]
october 2011 by robertogreco
"Geoloqi for curriculum…it combines your location with information layers. For example, if you activate the Wikipedia layer, you’ll receive updates when you are in a vicinity of a site based on a wikipedia article. One of the challenges with traditional classroom learners is the extreme disconnect between courses and concepts. Efforts to connect across subject silos are minimal. However, connections between ideas and concepts amplifies the value of individual elements. If I’m taking a course in political history, receiving in-context links and texts when I’m near an important historical site would be helpful in my learning. Mobile devices are critical in blurring boundaries: virtual/physical worlds, formal/informal learning."
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geolocation
rss
email
grsshopper
visualization
2011
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learning
education
patternrecognition
sensemaking
connections
place
meaning
mobilelearning
atemporality
crossdisciplinary
interdisciplinarity
interdisciplinary
multidisciplinary
wikipedia
media
context
location
from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Why I do not want to work at Google [via: http://www.odonnellweb.com/2011/08/is-google-becoming-the-next-iteration-of-aol/ ]
august 2011 by robertogreco
"I believe that warehouse-scale client-server computing will, in the end, undermine the kind of democratic freedom of communication that we need to deal with today’s global menaces. It’s more practical than peer-to-peer computing at the moment, but that pendulum has swung back & forth several times over the decades…The proper response to the current impracticality of decentralized computing is not to sigh and build centralized systems. The proper response is to build the systems to *make decentralized computing practical again*.<br />
<br />
Google is not institutionally opposed to this; they’ve funded<br />
substantial and important work on it. Nevertheless, because of their overall orientation toward centralized solutions with undemocratically-imposed policies, I believe working there would be a further distraction from that goal. Worse, with every advance that companies like Google and Apple make, the higher is the bar that decentralized systems must leap to achieve real adoption."
internet
web
media
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kragenjaviersitaker
email
gmail
spam
control
2011
google+
from delicious
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Google is not institutionally opposed to this; they’ve funded<br />
substantial and important work on it. Nevertheless, because of their overall orientation toward centralized solutions with undemocratically-imposed policies, I believe working there would be a further distraction from that goal. Worse, with every advance that companies like Google and Apple make, the higher is the bar that decentralized systems must leap to achieve real adoption."
august 2011 by robertogreco
Minimal Business Card Design | Boris Smus
august 2011 by robertogreco
"Rather than having each field separately labeled, I tried to uncover as much information as possible within my email address. Hidden inside are my first name, last name, website, and twitter account! Here’s a minimal design concept that tries to break it down."
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august 2011 by robertogreco
Composition 1.01: How a Tool Everyone Has Could Change Education - James Somers - Technology - The Atlantic
july 2011 by robertogreco
"Whatever you produce joins dozens of other efforts in a stack whose growing thickness doesn't exactly thrill your professor. But still he'll soldier on and read, and maybe re-read, and mark up and grade each one. Along the way he might leave short contextual notes in the margin; he might write one long critique at the end; he might do both; or he might do neither and let your grade do all the talking.<br />
<br />
Trouble is, no matter how detailed and incisive the feedback, by the time it gets back to you it's already too late -- and, in a way, too early. Too late because your paper has already been written, and what you really needed help with was its composition, with the micromechanics of style, with all the small decisions that led you to say whatever it is you said. And too early because even if the professor's ex post pointers make every bit of sense, a whole month might go by before you next get to use them.<br />
<br />
This is not the way to develop a complicated skill."
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practice
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2011
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dialogue
learning
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<br />
Trouble is, no matter how detailed and incisive the feedback, by the time it gets back to you it's already too late -- and, in a way, too early. Too late because your paper has already been written, and what you really needed help with was its composition, with the micromechanics of style, with all the small decisions that led you to say whatever it is you said. And too early because even if the professor's ex post pointers make every bit of sense, a whole month might go by before you next get to use them.<br />
<br />
This is not the way to develop a complicated skill."
july 2011 by robertogreco
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!
june 2011 by robertogreco
"We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this "spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter...
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business
communication
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june 2011 by robertogreco
Should I Change My Password?
june 2011 by robertogreco
"ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com has been created to help the average person check if their password(s) may have been compromised and need to be changed.<br />
<br />
This site uses a number of databases that have been released by hackers to the public. No passwords are stored in the ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com database.<br />
<br />
This website is made available as a public service. Please help me maintain it by donating."
via:thelibrarianedge
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online
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This site uses a number of databases that have been released by hackers to the public. No passwords are stored in the ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com database.<br />
<br />
This website is made available as a public service. Please help me maintain it by donating."
june 2011 by robertogreco
Errol Morris: Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
june 2011 by robertogreco
"MIT’s Compatible Time Sharing System, or CTSS, was one of the first operating systems to utilize “time-sharing,” which allowed many people to use a single mainframe computer simultaneously. Users accessed the computer at remote terminals — modified electric typewriters — that sent input to the computer and printed output on paper as the user typed code. In early 1965, two programmers, Tom Van Vleck and Noel Morris, wanted to send each other electronic messages, and created the e-mail program MAIL. To get a sense of what it felt like to use this early version of e-mail, try the programming game below. Your terminal will type lines of the actual CTSS MAIL code, with missing segments indicated by a blank. Use the clues to fill in the blanks and complete the lines of code. Then, using the MAIL program you just wrote, send a message to yourself or to a friend."
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june 2011 by robertogreco
The invention of social computing
june 2011 by robertogreco
"As is the case with many of his movies, Morris uses the story of a key or unique individual to paint a broader picture; in this instance, as the story of his brother's involvement with an early email system unfolds, we also learn about the beginnings of social computing…<br />
<br />
It seems completely nutty to me that people using computers together -- which is probably 100% of what people use computers for today (email, Twitter, Facebook, IM, etc.) -- was an accidental byproduct of a system designed to let a lot of people use the same computer separately. Just goes to show, technology and invention works in unexpected ways sometimes...and just as "nature finds a way" in Jurassic Park, "social finds a way" with technology."
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darpa
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2011
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It seems completely nutty to me that people using computers together -- which is probably 100% of what people use computers for today (email, Twitter, Facebook, IM, etc.) -- was an accidental byproduct of a system designed to let a lot of people use the same computer separately. Just goes to show, technology and invention works in unexpected ways sometimes...and just as "nature finds a way" in Jurassic Park, "social finds a way" with technology."
june 2011 by robertogreco
ifttt
june 2011 by robertogreco
"ifttt puts the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure:<br />
<br />
ifthisthenthat<br />
Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).<br />
<br />
The (this) part of a task is called a Trigger (). Some example triggers are "if I'm tagged in a photo on Facebook" or "if I tweet on twitter." <br />
<br />
The (that) part of a task is called an action (). Some example actions are "then send me a text message" or "then create a status message on Facebook."<br />
<br />
Triggers and Actions come from Channels. Channels are the unique services and devices you use everyday, activated specifically for you. Some example channels:"
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ifthisthenthat<br />
Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).<br />
<br />
The (this) part of a task is called a Trigger (). Some example triggers are "if I'm tagged in a photo on Facebook" or "if I tweet on twitter." <br />
<br />
The (that) part of a task is called an action (). Some example actions are "then send me a text message" or "then create a status message on Facebook."<br />
<br />
Triggers and Actions come from Channels. Channels are the unique services and devices you use everyday, activated specifically for you. Some example channels:"
june 2011 by robertogreco
Time's Inverted Index (Ftrain.com)
may 2011 by robertogreco
"I was biasing the results by using full-text search to explore my email…The pattern-seeking engine in my brain would fire on all cylinders & make a story of the searches, creating an unintentional email-chrestomathy, a greatest-hits collection of ideas I’d had around a single word or phrase…I thought I was doing history in a mirror, but because the emails were pure matches for key terms, devoid of all but a little context, I fell for the historical fallacy, which is when, as John Dewey described it, somewhat impenetrably: <br />
<br />
"A set of considerations which hold good only because of a completed process, is read into the content of the process which conditions this completed result. A state of things characterizing an outcome is regarded as a true description of the events which led up to this outcome; when, as a matter of fact, if this outcome had already been in existence, there would have been no necessity for the process." <br />
<br />
That is, I had lost sight of time…"
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youngerself
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hope
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"A set of considerations which hold good only because of a completed process, is read into the content of the process which conditions this completed result. A state of things characterizing an outcome is regarded as a true description of the events which led up to this outcome; when, as a matter of fact, if this outcome had already been in existence, there would have been no necessity for the process." <br />
<br />
That is, I had lost sight of time…"
may 2011 by robertogreco
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com
march 2011 by robertogreco
"Phone calls are rude. Intrusive. Awkward. “Thank you for noticing something that millions of people have failed to notice since the invention of the telephone until just now,” Judith Martin, a k a Miss Manners, said by way of opening our phone conversation. “I’ve been hammering away at this for decades. The telephone has a very rude propensity to interrupt people.”<br />
<br />
Though the beast has been somewhat tamed by voice mail and caller ID, the phone caller still insists, Ms. Martin explained, “that we should drop whatever we’re doing and listen to me.”"
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2011
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Though the beast has been somewhat tamed by voice mail and caller ID, the phone caller still insists, Ms. Martin explained, “that we should drop whatever we’re doing and listen to me.”"
march 2011 by robertogreco
How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com
march 2011 by robertogreco
"Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s more repetitive than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche. The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.<br />
<br />
The Internet reminds of us this every day."
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web
online
modernlife
cv
tv
television
twitter
email
paperwork
feeds
2010
chuckklosterman
from delicious
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The Internet reminds of us this every day."
march 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg) narrated by Peter Coyote
january 2011 by robertogreco
"Shabbat is a very old idea -- 5000 years old. Just take a break one day a week. I desperately needed a "technology shabbat." Recently addicted to tweeting, I became that person I hated who pulled out her iPhone while actually talking to someone -- sneaking email fixes in bathroom stalls. It was getting ugly. <br />
<br />
Sophocles once said, "nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse," and this couldn't be more true of technology. <br />
<br />
My husband (artist & robotics professor Ken Goldberg) and I were thinking about the "curse" part. We both love technology and have devoted our careers to experimenting with it, but could we unplug for one day a week? So Ken and I decided to try to truly power down one day a week. Inspired by this concept, we reworked Ginsberg's "Howl," into "Yelp." Then I made a little film about it and Peter Coyote lent his great voice."
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im
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from delicious
<br />
Sophocles once said, "nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse," and this couldn't be more true of technology. <br />
<br />
My husband (artist & robotics professor Ken Goldberg) and I were thinking about the "curse" part. We both love technology and have devoted our careers to experimenting with it, but could we unplug for one day a week? So Ken and I decided to try to truly power down one day a week. Inspired by this concept, we reworked Ginsberg's "Howl," into "Yelp." Then I made a little film about it and Peter Coyote lent his great voice."
january 2011 by robertogreco
Rapportive
december 2010 by robertogreco
"Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox."
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plugin
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chrome
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december 2010 by robertogreco
John Kestner : Supermechanical objects : Tableau physical email
december 2010 by robertogreco
"Remember when we made a connection by handing someone a photo? As our social circle spreads across a wider geographic area, we look for ways to share experiences. Technology has reconnected us to some extent, but we fiddle with too many cables and menus, and those individual connections get drowned out.<br />
<br />
Tableau acts as a bridge between users of physical and digital media, taking the best parts of both. It's a nightstand that quietly drops photos it sees on its Twitter feed into its drawer, for the owner to discover. Images of things placed in the drawer are posted to its account as well.<br />
<br />
Tableau is an anti-computer experience. A softly glowing knob that almost imperceptibly shifts color invites interaction without demanding it. The trappings of electronics are removed except for a vestigial cable knob for the paper tray. The nightstand drawer becomes a natural interface to a complex computing task, which now fits into the flow of life."
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Tableau acts as a bridge between users of physical and digital media, taking the best parts of both. It's a nightstand that quietly drops photos it sees on its Twitter feed into its drawer, for the owner to discover. Images of things placed in the drawer are posted to its account as well.<br />
<br />
Tableau is an anti-computer experience. A softly glowing knob that almost imperceptibly shifts color invites interaction without demanding it. The trappings of electronics are removed except for a vestigial cable knob for the paper tray. The nightstand drawer becomes a natural interface to a complex computing task, which now fits into the flow of life."
december 2010 by robertogreco
Summify
december 2010 by robertogreco
"Summify automatically identifies the most important news stories for you across all of your social networks and tells why they are important, so you can read what really matters.<br />
<br />
Summify gets better and better as you follow or subscribe to more and more sources!"
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twitter
facebook
email
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tools
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from delicious
<br />
Summify gets better and better as you follow or subscribe to more and more sources!"
december 2010 by robertogreco
The curious history of chain letters. - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine
november 2010 by robertogreco
"Unlike the unfortunate Zorin Barrachilli, the chain letter lives on. If that 1974 sample from an online archive of chain letters sounds familiar, it's probably thanks to generations of e-mail and photocopying. But the real origin of the letter wasn't the Netherlands: Like any truly great crooked scheme, it began in Chicago.<br />
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It was there in 1888 that one of the earliest known chain letters came from a Methodist academy for women missionaries. Up to its eyes in debt, that summer the Chicago Training School hit upon the notion of the "peripatetic contribution box"—a missive which, in one founder's words, suggested that "each one receiving the letter would send us a dime and make three copies of the letter asking three friends to do the same thing."<br />
<br />
The chain letter had been born."
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It was there in 1888 that one of the earliest known chain letters came from a Methodist academy for women missionaries. Up to its eyes in debt, that summer the Chicago Training School hit upon the notion of the "peripatetic contribution box"—a missive which, in one founder's words, suggested that "each one receiving the letter would send us a dime and make three copies of the letter asking three friends to do the same thing."<br />
<br />
The chain letter had been born."
november 2010 by robertogreco
Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to Information Obesity | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
october 2010 by robertogreco
"“People love information,” Arment said. “Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don’t know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.”…<br />
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Instapaper, like Twitter, also shows the continuing versatility and relevance of text in a multimedia age: “It’s a very flexible and pliable medium. You can skim or search. You can copy and paste. You can read at your own speed. It’s simple and cheap to produce and store and share. That’s what gives it its power. Even when you bring media into a high-computing era, you can still do a lot more and more easily with text than you can with video or audio or software.”
attention
information
instapaper
timcarmody
text
marcoarment
twitter
infooverload
reading
email
dropbox
storage
synchronization
from delicious
<br />
Instapaper, like Twitter, also shows the continuing versatility and relevance of text in a multimedia age: “It’s a very flexible and pliable medium. You can skim or search. You can copy and paste. You can read at your own speed. It’s simple and cheap to produce and store and share. That’s what gives it its power. Even when you bring media into a high-computing era, you can still do a lot more and more easily with text than you can with video or audio or software.”
october 2010 by robertogreco
Everything You Need to Know About a Digital Sabbatical
august 2010 by robertogreco
"What is a digital sabbatical? Dedicating one day a week or even a whole month away from the internet, email, twitter, and other online activities.<br />
<br />
Taking an extended sabbatical is appealing to me. It would be one way to solely focus on writing my next ebook and to recharge my creative juices. Until I can take an extended break from the web, I’m planning on unplugging every weekend."
advice
digitalsabbatical
timeouts
internet
twiter
email
infooverload
analog
slow
from delicious
<br />
Taking an extended sabbatical is appealing to me. It would be one way to solely focus on writing my next ebook and to recharge my creative juices. Until I can take an extended break from the web, I’m planning on unplugging every weekend."
august 2010 by robertogreco
America's Most Exclusive Club - BusinessWeek [I belong to an exclusive club!]
august 2010 by robertogreco
"Not having a cell phone is a way of getting the world to run on your time. A lot of powerful people are already on to this. Warren Buffett doesn't use one. Nor does Mikhail Prokhorov, the 45-year-old Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets. Tavis Smiley doesn't own one, either. <br />
<br />
Smiley, 45, host of a weekly PBS talk show & national radio show, freaked out 2 years ago after realizing he couldn't remember phone numbers or appointments w/out checking his cell. Smiley believes his decision to give up his cell phone has benefited his 75-employee company, The Smiley Group. "At first everybody was complaining that it would be the death of the company. What's actually happened is that they get more conversation with me than they used to." …<br />
<br />
These non-cell-phone users don't avoid all modern forms of communication. Many are on Facebook & Twitter, & almost all are besotted by e-mail, which gives them time to insidiously shift the conversation to a moment convenient for them."
mobile
phones
power
time
distraction
attention
2010
cv
twitter
email
technology
interruptions
relationships
convenience
warrenbuffett
mikhailprokhorov
tavissmiley
conversation
presentations
travel
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<br />
Smiley, 45, host of a weekly PBS talk show & national radio show, freaked out 2 years ago after realizing he couldn't remember phone numbers or appointments w/out checking his cell. Smiley believes his decision to give up his cell phone has benefited his 75-employee company, The Smiley Group. "At first everybody was complaining that it would be the death of the company. What's actually happened is that they get more conversation with me than they used to." …<br />
<br />
These non-cell-phone users don't avoid all modern forms of communication. Many are on Facebook & Twitter, & almost all are besotted by e-mail, which gives them time to insidiously shift the conversation to a moment convenient for them."
august 2010 by robertogreco
kung fu grippe: Episode 27: Missionless Statements
july 2010 by robertogreco
"In this special episode, Dan Benjamin talks with two of his heroes, Merlin Mann & Jeff Veen about independence, free thinking, email, productivity, & changing your game."
[There is more here (on shared values, innovation, organizations, management, entreprenuership, change, etc.) than my notes reflect—all worth the listen.]
[Video also at: http://5by5.tv/conversation/27 ]
dunbar
dunbarnumber
groupsize
classsize
productivity
management
administration
tcsnmy
lcproject
jeffreyzeen
merlinmann
danbenjamin
email
communication
leadership
problemsolving
technology
enterprise
independence
freethinking
gamechanging
time
small
slow
ambientintimacy
relationships
understanding
efficiency
human
humanconnection
campfire
offhtheshelfsoftware
values
organizations
groups
sharedvalues
culture
failure
innovation
cv
risktaking
risk
freelancing
motivation
danielpink
meaning
autonomy
drive
missionstatement
vision
[There is more here (on shared values, innovation, organizations, management, entreprenuership, change, etc.) than my notes reflect—all worth the listen.]
[Video also at: http://5by5.tv/conversation/27 ]
july 2010 by robertogreco
Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call | Magazine
july 2010 by robertogreco
"The telephone, in other words, doesn’t provide any information about status, so we are constantly interrupting one another. The other tools at our disposal are more polite. Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. (Plus, we can spend more time thinking about what we want to say.) For all the hue and cry about becoming an “always on” society, we’re actually moving away from the demand that everyone be available immediately.
mobile
clivethompson
cellphones
calls
digitalculture
2010
email
facebook
im
communication
culture
socialmedia
trends
twitter
texting
technology
phones
july 2010 by robertogreco
Syphir
july 2010 by robertogreco
"Rules beta » turbo-charged filters for your Gmail
syphir
applications
iphone
email
filtering
filters
gmail
gtd
productivity
july 2010 by robertogreco
Marco.org - Comments
july 2010 by robertogreco
"We already have a widespread many-to-one feedback medium that avoids this: email. So that’s the feedback system that I allow on my site. Anyone can email me, & I will read it.
marcoarment
blogging
2010
tumblr
commenting
comments
communication
community
email
july 2010 by robertogreco
"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
july 2010 by robertogreco
"I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon." [Humrous fictional discussion between graphics designer and client ensues, with images of the proposed designs along the way.]
via:lukeneff
humor
design
graphics
cats
posters
clients
email
lostpets
july 2010 by robertogreco
Linda Stone: Are We at War With Technology?
june 2010 by robertogreco
"Technologies like these offer this type of support in computing and communication contexts. We can know: Are we "embodied?" Breathing? Are posture and breathing compromised? Are we chronically in fight or flight "on technology?" Or, are we learning a new "how," a new way of being when "on technology?"
2010
attention
information
continuouspartialattention
lindastone
internet
technology
work
web
computers
email
biofeedback
heartrate
reading
distraction
stress
june 2010 by robertogreco
State of the Internet Operating System Part Two: Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars - O'Reilly Radar
may 2010 by robertogreco
"This post provides a conceptual framework for thinking about the strategic and tactical landscape ahead. Once you understand that we're building an Internet Operating System, that some players have most of the pieces assembled, while others are just getting started, that some have a plausible shot at a "go it alone" strategy while others are going to have to partner, you can begin to see the possibilities for future alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and the technologies that each player has to acquire in order to strengthen their hand.
amazon
facebook
google
twitter
apple
microsoft
yahoo
future
cloudcomputing
cloud
timoreilly
web
payment
infrastructure
mediaaccess
media
monetization
location
maps
mapping
claendars
scheduling
communication
chat
email
voice
video
speechrecognition
imagerecognition
mobile
iphone
nexusone
internet
browsers
safari
chrome
books
music
itunes
photography
content
advertising
ads
storage
computing
computation
hosting
may 2010 by robertogreco
Cool Tools: Google Apps Mail [education program at: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html]
january 2010 by robertogreco
"Before Google starting offering this free "custom Gmail app" as part of their App suite including Google Docs and Google Calendar (which are also fantastic cool tools), I gained some of these similar results by forwarding all my mail through my free ordinary Gmail account and then back to me at my own servers. That hack worked, but this new custom mail app is much easier to setup, maintain and use. I first became aware of it when my wife's work (Genentech) moved their entire 10,000 employees' mail to a custom Google Apps system. Now you can too. It is part of the migration onto the "cloud," especially for small businesses."
google
googlemail
gmail
email
smallbusiness
technology
january 2010 by robertogreco
xFruits - Compose your information system [Jesse, great find. I think this is the one we've been looking for.]
january 2010 by robertogreco
"XFruits makes possible the Mashup RSS creation in a very simple way thanks to the Composer.
xfruits
aggregator
rss
generator
feeds
mashup
conversion
pdf
opml
converter
ajax
blogging
technology
internet
web2.0
email
online
web
mobile
blogs
software
tools
free
syndication
onlinetoolkit
via:jessebrand
tcsnmy
january 2010 by robertogreco
Essay - Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese? - NYTimes.com
december 2009 by robertogreco
"Now the Japanese language is being transformed by blogs, e-mail and keitai shosetsu, or cellphone novels. Americans may fret over the ways digital communications encourage sloppy grammar and spelling, but in Japan these changes are much more wrenching. A vertically written language seems to be becoming increasingly horizontal. Novels are being written and read on little screens. People have gotten so used to typing on computers that they can no longer write characters by hand. And English words continue to infiltrate the language.
languages
language
japan
japanese
english
technology
internet
change
harukimurakami
history
debate
simplification
books
mobile
phones
email
reading
writing
culture
society
immigration
learning
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Inbox, Part Two: Facebook Has An Ambient Awareness Problem - John Battelle's Searchblog
november 2009 by robertogreco
"In short, Facebook is not a network driven by ambient awareness, it's more batch mode driven. And I have come to this startingly obvious conclusion: Social networks driven by ambient awareness will win. And, by the way, so will search solutions that can deal with ambient awareness - AdSense ain't there (yet - more on that in later posts, but that is a big big deal)."
facebook
socialmedia
ambientawareness
future
twitter
socialnetworking
email
socialsoftware
november 2009 by robertogreco
TidBITS Opinion: Why Email Remains the King of Internet Communications
november 2009 by robertogreco
"It all comes down to two simple facts: email is based on open standards, and it's the lowest common denominator for Internet communication. Any communication system that wishes to supplant email will need to offer both openness and ubiquity, and nothing available today comes even close...Nearly all business-to-consumer communication on the Internet is done via email....Nearly all business-to-business communication on the Internet also takes place via email, and a significant aspect of that is email's capability to transfer not just text, but also attachments....Your email address is, generally speaking, your Internet identity. ...Email messages can be archived and accessed much later easily...email is the Internet communications method of last resort, as shown by the fact that if you forget your password on nearly any Web site - Facebook and Twitter included - you can receive a new one only via email"
internet
future
online
communication
email
computing
standards
identity
november 2009 by robertogreco
Relevance Over Time
october 2009 by robertogreco
"Chronological order became more common on web as social networks, such as Facebook, blogs, feeds, feed readers, FriendFeed & services like Twitter designed around the same paradigm – leading to most recent being most important. Some call it real-time, others call it information overload. A default view of chronological order presents a natural barrier to the # of information sources that can be managed effectively...W/ only a few dozen feeds, 100 or so emails a day & following 100 or so people on Twitter, I find myself constantly behind & not being able to manage...Chronological order needs to be abandoned in favor of relevance. Without relevance, our ability to manage large sets of information is inefficient. The technology for relevance exist today, for eg. spam filters are able to tell us what we definitely don’t want to read. Real world information retrieval & organization is based on relevance, either what somebody else believes is relevant to us, or what we decide is relevant."
relevance
information
infooverload
email
facebook
chronoogical
realtime
aggregator
communication
technology
time
october 2009 by robertogreco
A Manifesto for Slow Communication - WSJ.com
september 2009 by robertogreco
"Sending and receiving at breakneck speed can make life queasy; a manifesto for slow communication"
slow
communication
email
time
manifesto
speed
efficiency
socialmedia
technology
culture
internet
future
web
media
september 2009 by robertogreco
Arroba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
july 2009 by robertogreco
"The word arroba has its origin in Arabic ar-rubʿ (الربع), the fourth part (of a quintal). Arroba was a Spanish and Portuguese unit of weight, mass or volume. Its symbol is @. In weight it is equal to about 25 pounds in Spain, and 32 pounds in Portugal. An Italian academic claims to have traced the @ symbol to the Italian Renaissance, in a Venetian mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on May 4, sent from Seville to Rome, describing the goods and treasures arriving on a ship from the Americas to Spain 1537. The Aragonese historian Jorge Romance located the appearance of the @ symbol at the "taula de Ariza" registry from 1448, to denote a wheat shipment from Castile to the Kingdom of Aragon. The unit is still used in Portugal by cork merchants, and in Brazil by cattle traders, defined as 15 kg. In the Spanish language and Portuguese language, the term arroba has now become synonymous with the symbol due to its use in e-mail addresses."
arroba
signs
symbols
email
spanish
portuguese
español
renaissance
italian
arabic
measure
volume
july 2009 by robertogreco
Email Full-resolution Photos From the iPhone 3G S | Geek stuff
july 2009 by robertogreco
"What I found was, the photos contained in the email were full-resolution 2048×1536 photos, not the puny 800×600 photos that get sent via the “Share” method."
iphone
photography
howto
email
resolution
july 2009 by robertogreco
Gmail: Tips
june 2009 by robertogreco
"Become a Gmail Ninja
gmail
tips
howto
gtd
tutorial
productivity
tutorials
tricks
support
email
shortcuts
june 2009 by robertogreco
Email ‘n Walk - Compose Emails While On The Move | Apple iPhone Apps
may 2009 by robertogreco
"Email ‘n Walk allows you to compose important email messages while on the go. Just open the application and start typing. The subject and message fields appear over the top of a instant video feed via your iPhone’s camera. This way you can type AND walk without worrying about what may be in front of you."
iphone
applications
excess
continuouspartialattention
distraction
email
watchwhereyou'rewalking
csiap
may 2009 by robertogreco
Survey Says Baby Boomers Think Playing With Your Blackberry During A Meeting Is Rude
april 2009 by robertogreco
"The generation gap all too often expresses itself as a technology gap. A survey of white collar workers (most of them in the legal profession) commissioned by NexisLexis offers a glimpse at changing attitudes towards technology between Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers. ... My advice to anyone who finds Blackberry or laptop use during meetings rude or distracting: have fewer meetings or get to the point faster. Invariably, the conversations people are having on their laptops, iPhones, and Blackberries are increasingly more interesting than the ones that are going on in the room."
attention
genx
geny
netgen
boomers
babyboomers
generations
technology
communication
work
etiquette
laptops
mobile
phones
twitter
facebook
email
continuouspartialattention
meetings
april 2009 by robertogreco
It's Not All Flowers and Sausages: Like A Dog With a Bone...
april 2009 by robertogreco
"The Weave writes us an email (evidently it is easier to be an inconsiderate douche via email than it is in person...note to self) that says we simply misunderstood. The Bacon Hunter was simply advocating for us to be "transparent" and keep everyone "up to date" on our progress so that we are "alligned" across the building....
humor
teaching
bureaucracy
email
buzzwords
transparency
alignment
standardsbased
data-driveninstruction
edubabble
tcsnmy
april 2009 by robertogreco
The Technium: Neo-Amish Drop Outs
february 2009 by robertogreco
"The legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth doesn't do email, or blogs...although he used to. He still has a web page where he articulates his reasons for being off email. He once told me, "Rather than trying to stay on top of things, I am trying to get to the bottom of things." Thus his dropping out of instant communication." ... "Lots of people complain about being overloaded with email, blogs, twitter, and so on. But very few who complain reach the ultimate logical solution: turn it all off. I am interested in heavily mediated folks who drop out. Not partially, only once in a while, on sabbatical, but drop off the internet completely. Are they happy now? Don Knuth seems happy and productive. How do others manage? Do they become a recluse, like the Unabomber? Do they form communities with the like minded? Or, are internet drops so rare that they are simple statistical outliers? I know about the traditional Amish; they don't count because they have never been wired."
neo-amish
technology
luddism
email
overload
infooverload
kevinkelly
attention
distraction
internet
information
communication
concentration
luddites
amish
donaldknuth
february 2009 by robertogreco
Caterina.net: Singletasking
february 2009 by robertogreco
"Sent to me by my friend David Kidder, and guiding my workdays, as much as possible. I'm not sure where it's from."
via:preoccupations
multitasking
singletasking
discipline
attention
management
gtd
flow
productivity
work
email
life
distraction
continuouspartialattention
february 2009 by robertogreco
The End of Alone - The Boston Globe
february 2009 by robertogreco
"At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness." ... "DESCARTES, NEWTON, LOCKE, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard -- they share the distinction of having been some of the greatest thinkers the world has known. They also share this: None of them ever married or had their own families, and most of them spent the bulk of their lives living alone. In his provocative 1989 book Solitude: A Return to the Self, British writer and psychiatrist Anthony Storr made a persuasive case for the value of deep, uninterrupted alone time. He found it in ample supply in the lives of not just philosophers and physicists, but also some of the greatest poets, novelists, painters, and composers."
technology
solitude
society
facebook
email
gmail
bogs
online
internet
connectivity
mobile
phones
twitter
slow
well-being
idleness
boredom
quiet
etiquette
missedconnections
anxiety
strangers
life
philosophy
thoreau
reflection
via:hrheingold
february 2009 by robertogreco
Yammer [via: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jan/30/mobilephones-startups]
february 2009 by robertogreco
"Connect and share with the people in your company or organization." An intranet social network of sorts.
tcsnmy
twitter
microblogging
collaboration
productivity
business
socialsoftware
socialnetworking
enterprise
socialmedia
communication
office
email
webapps
yammer
february 2009 by robertogreco
The natives aren't quite so restless | The Australian
january 2009 by robertogreco
"You might expect that my workshops are teeming with digital natives. But in my experience digital natives are the exception rather than the rule.
teaching
literacy
digitalnatives
technology
email
blogging
flickr
facebook
students
january 2009 by robertogreco
Verify Email Address | Email Address Verification
january 2009 by robertogreco
"This email verification tool actually connects to the mail server and checks whether the mailbox exists or not."
via:preoccupations
email
communication
reference
validation
verify
verification
onlinetoolkit
search
privacy
security
january 2009 by robertogreco
/Message: JP Rangaswami on Continuous Partial Asymmetry [as quoted by David Smith] [se also: http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2008/12/asymmetrical-fo.html AND http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/12/08/musing-about-politeness-and-continuous-partial-asymmetry/]
december 2008 by robertogreco
"One of the unstated reasons for the decrease in participation costs ... is the shift from the email inbox -- where the user is consigned to being a file clerk, archiving, & foldering -- and the shift to streaming clients that power users of twitter invariably use. In the streaming client apps, messaging drift by, & fall off the edge. If I want to look, I look; if I want to reply, I reply; in either case, after a while the message falls off the time horizon supported by the tool, & then it is gone, archived in the cloud somewhere, but out of the temporal horizon supported by the tool. ... This pattern drives the cognitive & productivity shifts that streaming tools engender in us & our modes of interaction. This is again that flow state of mind, the flow mode of operation that will soon be the norm. And the premises of asymmetric relationships & tools, & the ubiquity of that model of social interaction are a foundation of this shift we are undergoing, collectively & individually."
via:preoccupations
continuouspartialasymmetry
twitter
flow
attention
email
glancing
communication
microblogging
stoweboyd
etiquette
december 2008 by robertogreco
apophenia: Warning: Email Sabbatical is Imminent .. and other random thoughts
december 2008 by robertogreco
"For those who are unaware of my approach to vacation... I believe that email eradicates any benefits gained from taking a vacation by collecting mold and spitting it back out at you the moment you return. As such, I've trained my beloved INBOX to reject all email during vacation. I give it a little help in the form of a .procmail file that sends everything directly to /dev/null. The effect is very simple. You cannot put anything in my queue while I'm away (however lovingly you intend it) and I come home to a clean INBOX. Don't worry... if you forget, you'll get a nice note from my INBOX telling you to shove off, respect danah's deeply needed vacation time, and try again after January 19."
email
danahboyd
distraction
emptyinbox
vacation
academia
december 2008 by robertogreco
Nike Playmaker
october 2008 by robertogreco
"Take the hassle out of organising football." Smart move here by Nike, providing tools to make play easier.
football
nike
collaboration
groups
googlemaps
services
organization
management
messenging
sms
email
coordination
participatory
participation
play
sports
october 2008 by robertogreco
Beyond Emily: Post-ing Etiquette | Edutopia [see also: http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2008-netiquette-guidelines]
september 2008 by robertogreco
"Some educators are leading the way to school-based netiquette education with guidelines advising students on what to do, and what to avoid, in online communication. We've put together excerpts from some sample guidelines."
etiquette
netiquette
email
online
internet
tcsnmy
edutopia
education
september 2008 by robertogreco
Hello! You There!
august 2008 by robertogreco
"You can use this site to send anonymous, constructive advice to anyone about anything you like. The hope is that, over time, this project will have triggered lots of small, seemingly insignificant changes that collectively might make a slight contribution to a better society. Your advice will be sent by post. It can be trivial or devastatingly important but the key is for it to be constructive."
communication
anonymous
email
criticism
onlinetoolkit
community
ideas
feedback
august 2008 by robertogreco
Buenas Costumbres en la era de los Medios Sociales - FayerWayer
august 2008 by robertogreco
"Con tanto Email, SMS, MySpace, Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Fuckr y sabe Dios cuantos miles de otros servicios sociales a los que estamos expuestos todos los días, es fácil olvidarnos que al fin y al cabo, nos estamos vinculando con personas, que, aunque casi no parezca, todavía son Seres Humanos.
etiquette
online
web
commenting
society
behavior
email
twitter
blogs
blogging
facebook
howto
español
august 2008 by robertogreco
May I Offer You My Calling Card? - TIME
august 2008 by robertogreco
"In the 1800s, there was a certain logic--and a cool distance--to the formal calling card. Those who were part of, or sought a place among, the social élite would deliver a card with their name engraved on it to someone's home to request a visit. But now that you can IM, e-mail or text pretty much anyone immediately, the Victorian practice seems laughably outmoded, right? Not so, according to a growing number of enthusiasts reviving the old-fashioned social-networking tool."
whatsoldisnewagain
social
digtialage
trends
identity
communication
callingcards
twitter
email
sms
phones
august 2008 by robertogreco
Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com
july 2008 by robertogreco
"At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?"
onemachine
kevinkelly
via:grahamje
spimes
ubicomp
internet
ubiquitous
cloudcomputing
cloud
brain
convergence
digital
ai
semanticweb
future
futurism
predictions
technology
ted
statistics
data
email
communication
computing
computers
trends
media
web
networks
july 2008 by robertogreco
Giving Up On Work E-Mail - Status Report On Week 24 (Six Months On!) ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
july 2008 by robertogreco
"Decisions about communications must be personal and based on one's own convictions. The minute you start telling people how they must communicate with one another, you've destroyed the organization."
email
communication
organizations
stephendownes
july 2008 by robertogreco
New Gmail Features Protect from Snooping - Webmonkey
july 2008 by robertogreco
"Gmail added protection from unauthorized logins Monday through new features allowing you to monitor usage and sign out remotely. The features allow you to police your account from snooping family members, stalkers or those who take advantage when you for
gmail
email
privacy
security
july 2008 by robertogreco
Nassim Nicholas Taleb top life tips
july 2008 by robertogreco
from the video seen here: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article4022091.ece?print=yes&randnum=1214904808363 another version here: http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/06/13/time-to-party/
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july 2008 by robertogreco
RIP: Returned Every Email - O'Reilly Radar
june 2008 by robertogreco
"eFree 1. Reply all is usually a bad idea.
2. If you’re cc’d, there’s no need to reply.
3. A short, thoughtful email gets a quicker response. Long emails are read last.
4. If this issue cannot be resolved in 3 emails, consider scheduling a
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with 'ymail.com' [and 'rocketmail.com'] | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
june 2008 by robertogreco
"Because "yourname@yahoo.com" is likely taken by now, a lot of people must resort to unpleasant and hard-to-remember addresses such as "yourname1988@yahoo.com." Yahoo wants to give people a new chance with a name they like. "
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june 2008 by robertogreco
realsnailmail - "snails equipped with miniaturised electronic circuit & antenna enables them to be assigned messages from hardware located within their enclosure."
june 2008 by robertogreco
"moment you click ‘send’ your message will travel at speed of light to our snail server...associated with tiny electronic chip on snails shell...carried around until snail chances by drop off point...forwards it to its final destination."
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Andrew McAfee - Harbors in the Ocean of E-mail [illustration: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/uploads/frowning_email.jpg]
june 2008 by robertogreco
"problem with using e-mail for all communications...used for...even those that aren’t time-critical, personal, private, or salient...also...used to coordinate multi-person creation of documents, presentations, & spreadsheets, a task at which it’s abys
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Seriosity: The Enterprise Solution for Information Overload
june 2008 by robertogreco
"We use psychological and economic principles that drive successful multiplayer online games to improve collaboration, innovation and productivity. We offer consulting services to help enterprises develop a game strategy optimized for their challenges and
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june 2008 by robertogreco
MacNN | Nielsen: iPhone users young, choosing e-mail [interesting given past claims that email is losing popularity]
june 2008 by robertogreco
"iPhone owners are young, and primarily interested in e-mail, says the survey group Nielsen Mobile. Results from the first quarter of 2008 show that the majority of iPhone owners are aged 25 to 34, the next most significant group being people between 55 a
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Exclusive Sneak Preview: Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features Tonight
june 2008 by robertogreco
"Once your Gmail account is Labs-enabled, you'll get a Labs tab in the Settings area of your account where you can enable 13 new experimental Gmail features, including signature tweaks, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and even a game."
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Seth's Blog: Email checklist
june 2008 by robertogreco
"Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:"
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june 2008 by robertogreco
Encrypt your Gmail Email! - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech
may 2008 by robertogreco
"In this Instructable, I'll walk you through the simple process of setting up GPG and then installing a Firefox plugin that will make it easy to encrypt your Gmail."
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may 2008 by robertogreco
Official Gmail Blog: How to find any email with Gmail search
may 2008 by robertogreco
"The sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling."
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may 2008 by robertogreco
Harold Jarche » Boring is good
may 2008 by robertogreco
"Message to tool builders - you cannot be ubiquitous inside a walled garden." + "The litmus test for any community software should be, “is it easier than e-mail?”, because that is what most users will compare it to."
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ict
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may 2008 by robertogreco
Cory Doctorow: How to stop your inbox exploding | Technology | guardian.co.uk
april 2008 by robertogreco
"1. Sort your inbox by subject 2. Colour-code messages from known senders 3. Kill people who make you crazy 4. Half-resign from mailing lists 5. Keep a pending list"
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april 2008 by robertogreco
brightkite.com
april 2008 by robertogreco
"Location-based social networking - Discover who visits your favorite places. See where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time. Meet people around you. Reveal your location, befriend, & chat with people around you.
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april 2008 by robertogreco
Brightkite Blog
april 2008 by robertogreco
"location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends. Users can see where their friends are and what they’re up to all while maintaining comprehensive degrees of priva
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april 2008 by robertogreco
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