Building Online Communities
[Before I begin, I just wanted to link to this O'Reilly Radar post that shows how Facebook continues to blow away its competition, with 175 million users worldwide. Another conflicting post from...
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Ever since I downloaded my first MP3 in my freshman year of college in 1996, amazed at how small the file was (I think it was a Shaggy track), I don’t really think much has changed in the music...
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On #OccupyWallStreet
For last night’s Red Burns – Applications class, one of the group presentations addressed #OccupyWallStreet. I don’t usually speak in large groups anyway, mainly because I really, really hate fighting...
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Stunting a Renaissance
An underlying theme in my projects at school has been thinking about potential versus actual. And one common question that people ask when my classmates introduce their project ideas is, “Will this be...
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Nature of Code Final: Genetic Crossings
Professor Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code is outstanding. Just check out the syllabus. And play with the Nature of Code repo Processing sketches hosted on Github. And be sure to get his book when it...
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Newslint: My Project to Supplement Media Literacy
I just released a new site that I built, Newslint. Check it out! A while ago I was reading Hackernews and I saw someone posted a link to the Javascript source for joblint, an app that you copy and...
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VR Anticipation, and Oculus Rift vs. Google Glass
I’m not sure if the Rift or Project Morpheus are going to be huge but with the anticipation for their consumer releases, this is probably the first time VR has been really exciting for most geeks. You...
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Why You Should Love Keanu Reeves for His Acting
Keanu’s understated demeanor and humility, combined with the Sad Keanu meme and reddit love (for having done things like giving part of his earnings to the rest of the crew on his movies), have won him...
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Mercenaries
Perhaps the quality I look for and admire the most in people I associate with now that I’m 39 years old is altruism, whether someone will take actions to help others which do not benefit him in any...
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Root Cause Analysis
Let’s talk about America and the gutting of its civic institutions for power and profit in the name of patriotism. The overarching theme in my sparse blogging history since I left the military has been...
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