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What I don’t want: Chatroulette is interesting. I’ve sort of refrained from talking about it until now because I hadn’t known what to say/think about it, and based on the primary use cases (I think of the “Comic Book” guy archetype looking for a good time) or teens that frequent the “Most Viewed” section on [...]

Leave it to Steve to drop some sick metaphor on you like that. Bonus points for referencing bicycles. Computers are like bicycles for our minds

Living our daily lives touched by Boxee, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, and YouTube, it’s easy to think that we are on the cutting edge of media consumption. That the business exchanges that we partake in, whether it be paying subscription fees for entertainment [Netflix], or piecemeal for atomic units of media [iTunes] will be what everyone [...]

I just listened to this 4 year old piece from NPR and found its implications interesting for designing experiences and things. When people say “The novelty wore thin,” it’s entirely possible that they’re not talking about a particular novelty, but novelty altogether. Reading You are Not a Gadget has introduced me to the user/human idea [...]

Here’s a humanistic thought to start your day. “The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush. You then start to care about the abstraction of the network more than the real people who are networked, even though the network [...]