Monthly Archives: September 2009

Umair Haque’s Awesomeness Manifesto

I don’t always agree with Umair Haque, a Harvard economist, though many of his ideas resonate with my own experience on the web. And I can imagine that much of his message comes across as rather radical to his audience, so I’ll cut him some slack if he has a tendency to wax revolutionary when [...]

Celebrate the open web on OneWebDay!

In case you didn’t hear, OneWebDay is coming up next week on Tuesday, September 22. The event is modeled after Earth Day and was started three years ago by Susan Crawford, a technology policy advisor to President Obama. Mozilla is doing their part with their own poster/photo contestand a specific call to action: Print and [...]

What can dogs tell us about the real-time web?

Ticka’s nose by Jimmy Did you know that a beagle’s nose has 300 million receptor sites? Humans, in contrast, have about six million. And that changes everything in a dog’s perception of the world. It also explains why they sniff and snort as much as they do and have such a preoccupation with other dogs’ [...]