A quick tip for iPhone wielders, because I’m finding this pretty handy.  If you’re like me, there are various different places where events you might want to attend are stored. You’ve got your own calendar on the phone, which is probably the one that reminds you what you’re actually planning to do day to day.  […]

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This just in from Slate: Many applications and sites on the Interwebs encourage you to upload a headshot or profile picture of some kind! Some people obsessively update theirs, in search of the perfect profile pic. Others remain anonymous by using a humorous or ironic image! Are we sure “Michael Agger” isn’t a pseudonym for […]

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Preach it.

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From a press conference at the Personal Democracy Forum today: Larry Lessig: I’m a little lost here because I don’t have slides. Vint Cerf: Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely! Lessig, of course, reminded everyone that he actually uses Keynote.

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I was once, hard as this may be to believe, a much bigger geek.  Oh, sure, I can still kludge a little code, fake my way through cocktails at CFP, even chuckle at nine out of 10 xkcd jokes. But, say, 16 years ago, on a night like this, I’d be sitting at my desk […]

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I’ll be participating in this week’s TPM Book Club discussion of Clay Shirky’s excellent new book Here Comes Everybody. Check it out; there should be an intro essay from Shirky sometime today, and I’ll post links periodically as I chime in.

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If you’re at all interested in how new technologies are transforming the distribution of movies and other media, you really have to be reading the Infinicine, by terrifyingly savvy film nerd Laure Parsons.

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So, I know I’ve bitched about this before, but here’s a familiar scenario that’s starting to annoy me: (1) Some minor physical problem afflicts my portable device—the kind of thing that just happens sooner or later when you’re carting around something meant to be used on the go. In this case, the top button on […]

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One of the most interesting panels at CFP this week concerned reputation and privacy on social networking sites,  and two of the panelists drew special attention to the often repugnant—and sometimes criminal—abuse and harrassment directed at female bloggers. What I found particularly fascinating at the time was the problem (potentially, if not in the specific […]

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Apologies for the long lacuna faithful readers.  I wish I could say posting will pick up now, but no guarantees: I’m at the Computers, Freedom, & Privacy conference in New Haven, which means I’ll mostly be blogging at Ars Technica and Democracy in America this week. But I do have a few stored up thoughts […]

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