From my growing interest in community, conversation and how we can harness what we’re learning about online community behaviours in the real world came a renewed pointer to Peter Block (thanks to a post by Mark Kuznicki). I remembered that I’d read The Answer to How is Yes in the past and been impressed by [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Alternate reality: The Weather Network
The Weather Network is a portal to another reality. It’s a 24-hour cable news channel where everything revolves around the weather, all the time. Every bulletin and every story segment is about the weather, climate change, or about the weather’s impact on traffic or other aspects of people’s lives (cars spinning out in deep snow, [...]
Brilliant stuff: Read It Later Firefox extension
There are so many applications that facilitate saving and sharing bookmarks that it seems almost trite to mention yet another one. But Read It Later does some clever stuff and meets a very specific need for me, so I thought I’d pay it forward. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that places a little [...]
Open-sourcing the inkjet scam
Inkjet printer cartridges – photo courtesy of Pixi via Wikimedia Commons Inkjet printer cartridges contain a tiny little amount of liquid ink and cost a fortune. Actual calculations vary across the web, but the consensus seems to be that printer ink costs anywhere from $4,000 – $8,000 per gallon. This makes it more expensive than [...]
Sunday afternoon, Toronto Island
A beautiful Fall afternoon on Toronto Island. Ramshackle houses, yards full of unwanted junk, falling leaves, and deserted beaches. A cyclist’s and walker’s paradise. Many of the houses on the Island are pretty basic but artistically adorned. This one’s shack is festively decorated with a universal pagan symbol. This home struck us as the most [...]
Why I bought a Mac
Picture by Benjamin Nagel, via Wikimedia Commons Apparently, I’m a hipster now. According to my friend Bryce, who calls everyone a hipster who uses a Mac. Though I feel a certain kinship with PC in the “Get a Mac” commercials (who doesn’t? how can you not root for the likable underdog?), my purchase now entitles [...]
BumpTop with multi-touch
[Direct link for non-Flash devices] Here’s a new video showing BumpTop using a multi-touch screen under Windows 7. The march towards ‘tactile computing’ continues. I remain unconvinced that this is really what people want to do, for the simple reason that holding your hand/arm extended for lengthy periods like this cannot really be comfortable. My [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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