Show Notes October 28th, 2013

This tablet weighs 15pounds and is 27inches http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/lenovo-tablet-27-inch-family-sized_n_2421872.html what? okay, that’s weird the BBC talk about the history of social networks yay friendster! http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/shsn TechSpot Google believed to be constructing a floating data center in San Francisco Bay 16A barge afloat in the San Francisco bay just off the shore from Treasure Island is home to […]

Show Notes October 21st, 2013

Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_fitzgerald_adventures_in_twitter_fiction.html (Duration: ~12:00.) related : http://storify.com/wstonesoxfordst/the-call-of-cthulhu-1 Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution http://www.ted.com/talks/mena_trott_tours_her_blog_world.html A founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type’s Mena Trott talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the way to build […]

Supplemental Show Notes October 14th, 2013

  We have teamed up with our partners at Fight for the Future, Demand Progress and Restore the Fourth-NYC to create an educational (crowd-funded) short film about NSA surveillance, and you’re invited to its debut on Tuesday, October 15, at9:00 PM. This will be an outside viewing, near Washington Square Park, where the film will be […]

Show Notes October 14th, 2013

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day#bartolome   definition: visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data. (from google) tag cloud (from wikipedia):  visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags) on websites, or to visualize free form text….This format is useful for quickly perceiving the most prominent terms and for locating a term alphabetically to […]

Show Notes October 7th, 2013

The government shutdown http://www.forbes.com/sites/jesscollen/2013/10/04/you-cant-copyright-the-budget-shutdown-in-washington/ You Can’t Copyright The Budget Shutdown In Washington . Engadget FiLIP is an electronic leash for your kids’ wrists and it’s coming to AT&T Electronic leashes for the 21st century kid? You knew this sort of thing was inevitable. FiLIP, a smartwatch and ‘locator’ for kids that takes helicopter parenting to […]