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The other night I came home to no Internet. It appeared I could not get an IP address from my ISP. (un-geekly written: Internet had a booboo). I wanted to call the provider to tell them I was down, to make sure they were investigating, however I realized to do this I needed access to [...]

May 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: geek | Comments are closed

Significant Insignificances

What do a typewriter and Germany have to do with Twitter?

In fact quite a bit, but let’s step back for a second. How many times have you felt like you were wasting time? Seemed like you were doing something insignificant? Your actions have no relevance to your future goals?

In this season on “How [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: deep thought, geek | Comments are closed

A Conclusion to a Discussion on Social Networking

I could spend a lot of time reviewing each absurdity of this book, but alas I like to branch out more. Instead I think in my final reflection I’ll finish with why I believe Mr. Keen has this sense of reality that I do not share.

Since I stated posting blog entries I have received [...]

May 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: deep thought, geek, social commentary | Comments are closed

The Continuing Social Networking Discussion (part 2)

Chapter 3 – 5:

We join the book with a new hypothesis from Mr Keen. Because some people lie on the Internet, we cannot be sure if anything is truth and therefore it is all invalid.  Solid idea. Applying this to elsewhere in the world: Because airplanes crash no one should fly, because some people [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: cynical, geek | Comments are closed

A Social Networking Discussion (part 1)

Preface:

Lately a phenomenon has taken off like many of the fads of the 80s we all love so much. Starting with the BBS systems in the late 70s and through the 90s we have had this intrinsic need to network with people at any distance via computer. With the web becoming more accessible, network [...]

April 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: geek, social commentary | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

A View from the Street

As was my view in this entry of my blog, I can now provide even further proof of this ridiculous world we live in.

Google Street View has recently come under fire when trying to photograph a specific town in England.

Now the camera has been used by the public for about 100 years. Over [...]

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: geek, social commentary | Comments are closed

140 characters…

I am a bit of a geek. I like technology and I like understanding the various uses of that technology. I have spent the last month or so reading every news article I can about a new (I won’t say newest, because as we all know in this industry “newest” is outdated within minutes) phenomenon: [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: deep thought, geek, social commentary | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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