Salsa Scoop
What Have You Done for Me Lately?
It's December 16th, and I'm sure many of you are scurrying to get out your end-of-the-year donation appeals. Good for you, tis the season.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) blind giving is passe--gone are the days of the yearly $100 mail-in donation from Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Now, the Jones' have a high-speed connection and want to know exactly what kind of bang you're getting for their bucks. And they're not alone.
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03:30 PM Dec 16, 2005 -
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The Future Was Nov. 10th
Hat tip to Ann Yoders; presentations from AARP's Future of the Internet event last month (flogged in these pages previously) are now available online.
No danger of Bev Godwin godwinning the page.
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06:30 PM Dec 15, 2005 -
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Liveblogging Some Tropical Fish
Nothing like spending a week in Hawaii -- a work junket, if you can believe that, so we'll be rooting for the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii's
smoke-free restaurants bill in next year's legislature; but not all
work by a long shot, so we'll also be rooting for surf instructor Jan's
spiritual journey -- to drop you right out of blogging altogether.
And there's nothing like taking eight flights in a week to get acquainted with the idiocies of airline security.
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12:30 PM Dec 15, 2005 -
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Walk The Line
I know the question that's on your mind probably more than any other:
"How are the team at DIA like Johnny Cash?"
Well, besides our legendary code jam at Folsom Prison (an evening that nobody who was there will ever forget), there is one way that we're like the Man in Black: we walk the line.
What do I mean? I mean that developing software for a wide audience is a balancing act. On one hand, you want to make the software as easy to use as possible. On the other hand, you want to make it as powerful as possible, so people can do cool things with it.
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10:30 AM Dec 12, 2005 -
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May I Have Your Attention Please?
Some of you may know that in the recent past I wrote a Masters
thesis on articulated social networking ( okay, who am I kidding, no
one knows). To save you the trouble I'll sum those 80 pages of anthropological babble up here.
Articulated networks are exactly what they sounds
like--visible connections between you and those in your network. Social
networking websites such as Friendster and Myspace
allow users to connect with friends and get a visual demonstration of
how, through these friends, they are connected to others on the
website. I was pleased to discover that I am closely linked to an old
friend from High School as well as Jumbo Slice ( DC residents feel free
to chuckle). This visualization is invaluable to ensuring the identity
of individual users, I guess because the theory is that by knowing who
your friends are, people expect that you won't lie.
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03:00 PM Dec 06, 2005 -
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