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A Conversation with Alan Kay

July 7, 2005 by AndrewH | Permalink

ACM Queue – A Conversation with Alan Kay – Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk—and much more.
He’s the guy who says great stuff like “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” as well as this chestnut that describes so perfectly the phenomenon so many of us experience in corporate life:

It’s not that people are completely stupid, but if there’s a big idea and you have deadlines and you have expedience and you have competitors, very likely what you’ll do is take a low-pass filter on that idea and implement one part of it and miss what has to be done next. This happens over and over again.

Tag Coining Experiment: Metafatigue

June 23, 2005 by AndrewH | Permalink

This is my experiment in coining a Technorati tag.

We’ll see if this works.

I like this term “metafatigue” — it started out as “metaexhaustion” in a previous post, but I like ‘fatigue’ better, and it kind of sounds like “metal fatigue” which fits somehow.

I’ll define it here as “the feeling of enervation and frustration achieved through impossibly trying to control and track floods of information with metadata.” That’s sloppy but it’ll do.

Technorati Tag:

Edited to add, about 10 hours later: And it worked!! Just hop over to that link and check it out. Neato.

History of the internet resources

June 18, 2005 by AndrewH | Permalink

The Internet: Past, Present and Future – Internet & WWW History — an excellent history of the birth of the Internet.

Also see this timeline.

Google SMS Widget

June 10, 2005 by Andrew | Permalink

Google SMS is yet another thing that’s been around for months that I haven’t heard about yet.
Verizon charges me like $1.25 each time I call for the phone number to a restaurant or anything of the kind. But I can just message Google on my phone, now, and it’ll look it up for me!
Of course, you have to query it the right way, but really…pretty amazing.

Omni Magazine Shrine

August 4, 2003 by Andrew | 154 comments

Please visit the OmniShrine Wiki!

Rather than commenting on this blog, where hardly anyone will ever see what you said or asked, why not post your thoughts in a space that’s more suitable?

Try the OmniShrine Wiki!

I set it up so that fans of Omni can share information, and also be able to subscribe to comments or page changes, so that you can more easily keep up with the conversation!

The comment area on this post doesn’t act like a discussion list; there’s no way for anyone to be alerted of a question or an answer to one posted. That’s why the wiki is your best bet.

Thanks!

My original post is below. The omnimag.com link no longer takes you to the site I referenced back in 2003, but you can still see the glorious prehistoric black-background web experience via the magical “Wayback Machine” archive here via the Wayback Machine.

ORIGINAL POST:

Growing up, I was an avid reader of Omni Magazine.
I lost touch with it after high school, and I heard they’d tried doing their thing online, but then it had kind of died on the vine.
And I ran across the site today…how weird, that it’s still sitting there. A ghost town.
The design is so perfect for mid-to-late 90s ‘cool’ website design. Lots of 3D shapes floating in black space.
I wonder if anybody still tries entering the “Deconstructing the Titanic Sweepstakes” there?

Spam illegal in Virginia

April 30, 2003 by Andrew | 1 comment

Not the kind you use on sandwiches. But the electronic kind. I’m soooooo happy to see this law. I’m sure it’s got all kinds of loopholes and problems, but my inbox rejoices:
Yahoo! News – Spam Sent by Fraud Is Made a Felony Under Virginia Law

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