Me doing techno
Watch the original first. Then: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dvltmlBVNU]
Why can’t mobile apps have URLs?
Dave Winer laments that mobile apps are not universally addressable via a locator like a URL...
The binary web
It’s easy to see the web as sets of advances that come in waves...
The law is not Turing complete
In recent comments on Hacker News, I suggested, with some snark, that the definition of net neutrality is slippery and ad-hoc, and therefore exploitable...
Going about your business, or pleasure
I haven’t tried Google+ (pronounced ploo, the French way), but I note that there hasn’t been the dismissive pile-on that greeted Buzz and Wave...
Inversion of scarcity
Every business, if it’s smart, should realize that the Internet has the ability to drop out its pricing floor, or more precisely, to eliminate the scarcity on which price depends...
The NYT paywall is about segmenting, not security
It may be intemperate of me, but why do geeks respond in such a…Pavlovian way when given the opportunity to assume another person’s stupidity?..
Implicit vs. explicit social graphs
There are two kinds of social graphs in the world, explicit and implicit...
Design is information
It seems to me the companies with the greatest customer loyalty are those where design has a strong presence in the corporate culture...
Every programming problem…
…can be entirely described in these four dimensions: Cache: The browser is a cache for a web page, whose canonical version lives on a server...