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Historic Humor, Web 2.0 Style

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:34:45 +0000

You may have heard of Google Wave and wondered what it was. If so, take a little time to review this humorous reinterpretation of the creation of the Declaration of Independence using online collaboration tools, specifically Google Wave. A little history along with learning about a new online tool has to be a good thing!

We Hold These Truths To Be Awesome: The Founding Fathers Give Google Wave A Try

A Little on the Light Side

Matthew Woolums — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:19:38 +0000

Just in case you needed something fun today, try this.

[ INCREDIBOX ] presents [ THE INCREDIBLE POLO ]

Need More Bandwidth?

Matthew Woolums — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:31:00 +0000

Maybe I should upgrade to pigeon for my next network upgrade. I wonder how long it would take my ISP to offer carrier pigeon as an option. Just think of the bundle of services: satellite TV, phone service, and Internet pigeons! Read the BBC article for more details.

BBC NEWS | Africa | SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’

Twitter, Meet Woofer

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:05:05 +0000

If you thought 140 characters of micro-blogging at Twitter was mostly pointless, try a site that requires a minimum of 1400 characters. Good thing so many people know about copy-paste. From a MacWorld UK article.

Woofer | Macroblogging

The opposite of Twitter: new site requires 1,400-character minimum – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK

God Does Not Twitter

Matthew Woolums — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:14:06 +0000

Just a link to a comic I read today. GoComics lets you link to a comic, instead of letting you embed one. That would be cool. Anyway, worth clicking through for a good chuckle.

http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2009/07/09/

303,398

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:02:50 +0000

I thought my daughter texted a lot. At one time we calculated her texting in terms of hours per day. I guess those numbers are relative. Here is a CNET News story about Crystal Wiski, a California teen who averaged 7 texts a minute to wrack up an astonishing 303,398 texts in one month. Yes, that is a total for one month! In addition to texting, Crystal gets straight As in school, and works 40 hours a week at McDonalds.

Teen claims 303,398 iPhone texts in one month | Technically Incorrect – CNET News

Tonally Cool

Matthew Woolums — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:03:39 +0000

Fun little diversion. I’m sure people could use this for sending coded messages or something. Me, I just like clicking on the squares to see what it sounds like. Try diagonal lines, blocks of squares, and alternating patterns. Very fun!

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/swf/fl10/ToneMatrix.swf

Twitter Fine

Matthew Woolums — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:34:46 +0000

Looks like Twitter and the NBA have something going here. Previously, a player was told not to tweet during games, and another player said he was going to tweet during a game. Now an owner has been fined by the league office for publicly criticizing the referees in public, in this case, on Twitter. Mark Cuban has quite a history with NBA fines, and also has his own connections to the Internet prior to being the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Seems like someone should have explained to Mark that comments made on the Internet can be seen by anyone, employers, governing boards, just about anyone! At $25,000 a tweet, even Mark Cuban won’t be able to afford that for too long.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban fined $25,000 for ref comments – ESPN

Twitter and Lose Your Job!

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:10:42 +0000

Okay, so it isn’t quite that dire, but the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basket ball team, has a player who is on Twitter. Seems he tweeted at half-time of an important game. Now the coach has banned Twitter during games. I guess I can see his point. When the coach of the other team was asked about the incident, he summed it up this way:

“Yeah, well, I have no comment,” Rivers said. “New generation.”

Milwaukee Bucks tell Charlie Villanueva not to Twitter during games anymore – ESPN

The (not) Book

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:22:26 +0000

Funny video on Google Video. Joe is having a little trouble with his text book. Thanks to Chris Lehmann for the link.

Sorry, An Error Has Occurred

Matthew Woolums — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:35:23 +0000

Some day this sort of thing won’t happen. Some day, errors won’t be an expected component of technology. Some day, we will no longer notice technology because it just works.

Some day, but not today.

2008 Predictions In Review

Matthew Woolums — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:13:09 +0000

About a year ago, I made a few modest predictions for 2008. I tried to make them generic enough to fit most developments, and even included an out for the unpredictable.

What do I think the new year will bring? The trend to smaller, more portable, networked devices will continue, mostly from the cell phone industry, although one hears rumors of new portable devices. I also think that open source will continue to invade the business world. I also think that Net Neutrality will be both more important, and more imperiled. Oh, and of course, something will come along that I didn’t expect, I probably won’t understand, and I’ll dismiss it as an unimportant passing fad, just like I did with Twitter in 2007.

Smaller, more portable devices made a big impact with netbooks in 2008, so that prediction looks sound. Open source is still only marginally accepted, so I’ll call that prediction as off target. Something I didn’t expect? I suppose LOL Cats would qualify for that, although I’m sure the site started long before I heard about it. LOL Cats? It is a site where visitors create captions for animal pictures, and vote for which ones they like. My youngest spends hours collecting her favorites!

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