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Weakest Link host Anne Robinson thinks Americans are dumb, and her anecdotes are quite entertaining (especially the one about George waving to Stevie Wonder). But I wouldn’t go so far as to say that game show contestants are a representative sample of America. Case in point.

What is with people and “reply all?” I’ve been using email for quite some time, but I wouldn’t say I’m an email expert. In all of my years, I have never mistakenly “replied all”. Somehow many of my peers, sometimes even tech-savvy role models are able to send a private reply to a public mailingContinue reading “Sometimes I just don’t understand”

A few nice points about the ongoing (monotonically increasing?) epidemic of spam (thanks Tom). Two notable quotes: Seth Godin, marketing guru, at an event organized by DoubleClick: “spam is spam, and spam has no future.” But banner ads are the path to enlightenment? Wha? David Ritz, an antispam advocate: “If you say something once, it’sContinue reading “Perhaps nothing more than noise”

Despite the fact that I’m as happy as a seagull in a dumpster at McDonalds, here are some greek terms for people hatred. Might come in handy.

My prediction: every tech columnist will write a column about blogs killing old media by 2007. Some will include video interviews.

“They’re challengers to the throne of Google“: a nice slant on weblogs taken by Emergence author Steven Johnson, heading in many speculative directions that I’ve been considering lately as well. Webloggers are organizing the web, but we have yet to take full advantage of their work. It’s just a matter of time before we figureContinue reading “Use the blog, Luke”

Assemble a group of your friends, and try to collect as many items on this year’s Scavenger Hunt List as you can. Every year I went to the University of Chicago, I watched my friends renege on their lives for 72 continuous hours, only to come up 15 points short of the winning team. SucksContinue reading “Scavhunt 2002.. get it on!”

So I took this apartment thanks to good wireless capital in the neighborhood, and now that I’ve got an antenna, I’m leeching bandwidth from someone on my block. It’s not new to me; I’ve been stealing wireless since I plugged in my 802.11 card one day and discovered that I could. But at my lastContinue reading “Wireless ethics”

It’s sponsor month here at the MIT Media Lab, which means bringing out the dog and pony for all of our corporate benefactors. If I was paid by the number of times that I said “blogdex,” “news” or “weblog” today, I’d be on a plane to Cuba right now counting my retirement fund. But no,Continue reading “Gettin’ crunk, sponsor style”

I support public radio. That is to say, I listen to it, but in my tax bracket find it hard to give anything back. Whenever my local NPR station is pledge-driving, it irks me to listen to them repeat the same lines over and over: “This station is funded by you, the listener” “This isContinue reading “A Reminder in Disguise”