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Big plans for Windows 8 on mobile?
So this Monday I caught a headline that stuck out like a sore thumb. Of course I’m just now getting around to writing about it, so I could be a little behind the curve, but it intrigued me enough to still blog about it despite the amount of time that has elapsed since the article. [...]
Cash Rewards: Gamification Gets Monetary
Gamification is a concept that has been around for awhile. The gist of the idea is that if you wish to encourage a group of people to do something, then an excellent way to do that is to give them points and/or awards of some kind for doing whatever it is that you want them [...]
Free Speech on the Internet is in Trouble
Congress is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act this week (SOPA) this week. This bill represents the most dangerous piece of legislation that has ever come before congress in our lifetime. Depending on what side of the aisle you sit, you probably thought the PATRIOT Act or the Obama stimulus and healthcare bill were bad. [...]
In re: The Future of Interaction Design
My last semester at UGA I took a class called Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI. The entirety of the class was studying what we in the industry call “User Interfaces” or UIs – the glue that allows you to interact with your computer. Most of the time, when people talk about UI they are referring to [...]
A Tribute to Steve Jobs
I can’t deny that tonight, the world has lost a visionary who was largely responsible for the personal computer as we know it today. I for one will miss the hilarious emails that come from his personal email account. For those who didn’t know, Steve actually answered emails from the public. Regularly. Here’s a short [...]
Some Thoughts on Steve Jobs’s Retirement
As a Mac user for five years now, I’ve had some interest in Steve Jobs to say the least. He managed to orchestrate leading Apple from the nearly bankrupt skeleton that it was when he returned to the company to an industry leader in the mobile device market. This is a feat that’s not easy [...]
FCC: US Broadband deployment not on track
On Friday, the FCC released its seventh annual report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States, and the news isn’t looking good for broadband Internet Service Providers. The FCC’s report estimated that “26.2 million Americans living in more than 9.2 million households are unserved by broadband today” (p 15). In addition, on [...]
How to Say No to Comcast Sales
So, I’m in the process of moving and Comcast is now my service provider for Cable and Internet. I don’t know how long it will be that way, because they – like every other cable company – are expensive. But I hate how they are in the practice of trying to push higher, more expensive [...]
99 Problems
A little thing I Photoshopped together inspired by the recent mess with the Playstation Network. Cheers!
Hard Truths: Politicians don’t care what you think
From time to time I become influenced by the idealistic notion that I live in a country where the elected politicians take emails from their constituants seriously. On these occasions when I find myself in that mood, and I find an issue particularly offensive, I’ll take the time to type out a nicely worded email [...]
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