No item is too small when I’m reading the blog of a good friend. Everything they post is interesting. But from everyone else, I don’t want the details. Just the rare, fantastic, inspiring, thought-provoking, post. And then I might want some context. If I ask. Christina Wodtke is on to something. (Thanks, Derek!). I want …
Category Archives: Ideas
Distinguishing old data from fresh data
I don’t want my computer to forget anything, unless I tell it to. But I want everything annotated by time: when it was created, modified, and used. And I want the annotation to be ambient; subtly shown all the time. My web browser favorites should fade away if I haven’t visited them in a long …
Should apps go black?
I just downloaded the new Adobe Digital Editions. It’s cool to see the next generation of “rich internet applications” starting to emerge. I’ve always preferred client side applications interface to seeing everything through the a web browser, but I love apps that are easy to install, ready to go, and always connected. This is the …
Quote of the Day
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken, quoted in Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days, by Jessica Livingston. Isn’t that the truth. Nobody liked the ideas that turned out best for us. Of course, nobody liked …