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Alex Barnett blogStroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions Three videos that made me think:
How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks)
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would
wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it
happened -- as Posted: Jun. 19, 2008 12:40 PM Open Source in a SaaS World About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open
source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation.
A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT
industry's move to Software-as-a-Se Posted: May. 15, 2008 11:01 PM The Third Order of Order I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The
Power of the New Digital Disorder).
Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already
familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it Posted: May. 9, 2008 07:45 AM Classic Raymond Chen Here's some classic Raymond Chen:
"Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years". Posted: May. 7, 2008 11:44 AM Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's
editor, Chris Anderson, discussing FREE.
The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and
future) state: the Gift Economy; the Attention E Posted: May. 3, 2008 12:51 PM Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it
to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by TwitterÂ’s Alex Payne and Michael
Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API
provider.
B Posted: May. 1, 2008 07:08 AM The Efficiency of (the) American English Language As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is
more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two
languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule
seems to be a Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 11:27 AM So...what? About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal
tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably
picked up myself).
My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example:
"So, h Posted: Apr. 27, 2008 11:47 AM Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning:
1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers
Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using AmazonÂ’s Elastic
Computing Cloud (EC2) i Posted: Apr. 23, 2008 08:46 AM So what is this Platform as a Service thing? The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24
hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and
blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by
declaring "Let the Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 10:54 AM 
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