People making games beware: Scrabble vowel shortage revealed, thanks to faulty pseudorandomness. Also a tasty morsel of Scrabble trivia: Alfred Butts invented Scrabble in 1931 after studying the front page of the New York Times for months to calculate how often each of the 26 letters in the Roman alphabet is used in English words. [...]
An experiment in distributed storytelling: while attending South by Southwest, every time I went to take a picture, I was preempted by another, more photo savvy individual. So where’s my photo album? Take a tour with some of my friends: playing kickball, acquiring a “tan” (that’s me way in the back, credit: min jung) first [...]
Josh had quite a reaction to our panel at SXSW.
I might lapse from existence this weekend, thanks to St. Patrick’s Day 2002. You’ll find me at the oldest St. Pat’s parade in existence (first in 1737, annually since 1901), in the heart of historic South boston.
Okay, so the mass media attention to weblogs has officially tipped, thanks to the blogger manifesto and a host of articles from microcontent news. Yesterday’s article in the daily standard, “Reading, Writing, and Blogging” is yet another of what will be the landslide of articles touting or discrediting P2P Journalism. What I found facinating from [...]
Oh my god.. someone slap me! I almost forgot to waste the rest of the month watching March Madness! Already 4 upsets only halfway through the first round, it’s shaping up to consume my entire life. More addictive than metafilter.
Something brought up in my SXSW panel was the policies I have towards racist and otherwise hateful speech contained within the blogdex index. I’ve posed the question to the community, and am eagerly waiting the reaction.
Recent coverage of googlebombing by the BBC has prompted Google to respond: Google strikes back.
Okay, maybe a *little* comment. The aforementioned panel went well, according to the feedback I received from some audience members. At one point Doc asked the question “Who here is blogging this panel right now?” to which Wes and Cam raised their hands. Actually, there were three people taking notes, and Doc was one of [...]