April 2010
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March 2010
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in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word... →
The best thing I’ve seen on the web in a long time.
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Sidenote: I Prefer Joshua
My name is Joshua Michael Kaufman. When I introduce myself to people, I always say “Joshua.” About a quarter of the time, people then ask me if I prefer “Joshua” or “Josh.”
“I prefer Joshua, but I don’t mind if people call me Josh.”
I say this because about three quarters of the time, and slightly less often if they asked me what my...
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Reactivating Facebook
Read Part I: Deactivating Facebook
For folks who weren’t following along, I deactivated Facebook back in January because I felt like it was slowly taking over my life. Basically, I wanted to prevent myself from being able to immediately logging in and using the site. It worked, and I didn’t use Facebook at all for a little over three weeks.
I’m proud to say that I use...
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The Rube Goldberg Complex
Note: This post has embedded videos that don’t show up in the Tumbler Dashboard for some unknown reason.
After wondering what I should write about this week (I haven’t had the time to take my own medicine) I was fortunate to see this great talk by Adam Sadowsky, which was part of the wonderful Ignite Series of talks. Sadowsky is the president of Syn Labs, which was asked by OK Go to...
“It’s a bad scene right now. The social value of patents was supposed to be to...”
– Eric Von Hippel, professor of technological innovation at MIT, in an interview with The New York Times
