I just posted a bit of a rant at the Huffington Post. It begins:
I can be a pain in the butt when it comes to Apple naysaying, and I could be accused of being an iPhone-owning, Macbook-tapping, iTunes-downloading hypocrite, but every time Apple launches a new marketing blitz we endure an exhausting parade of claims [...]
It’s me on the Brian Lehrer TV show, along with Wired’s fantastic Sarah Lai Stirland. Charts, charts, and more charts.
I walked by the Apple Store on Greene and Prince Streets in Soho today and saw maybe 8-10 people camped out, waiting for the iPhone to hit on Friday. As I’ve read the news reports of this behavior I haven’t gotten really bent out of shape about it: this is the culture we live [...]
I was recently interviewed by ABCnews.com about Second Life and politics, which was fun, and Erica Sagrans, who I met at the RootsCamp conference in DC a few months back, wrote a great piece about new technologies politics and I’m, ahem, quoted in that too. Check them both out!
Meet Adam Reuters,
Reuters’ bureau chief in Second Life.
In real life, he is Adam Pasick, a veteran tech and media journalist.
Adam will be keeping regular hours in Second Life; you can view his calendar here.
The line between this life and Second Life is becoming fuzzier…
Tags: reuters, second life, virtual worlds
The New Media Literacies project is a very cool new effort to teach K-12 students about new media technologies. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a structured, forward-thinking approach to teaching this kind of literacy — how to use wikis, what blogging is, interactivity, etc. — to kids. They’re producing short biographies [...]
Chris Messina, a tech consultant who blogs at FactoryCity and was once on the Flock team, wrote a great post today about the whiteness and maleness of the Web 2.0 world. He says things that many white men don’t have the nards to say.
as it stands, we, as white men (of course I include [...]
First of all, my apologies to all three readers out there for my absence from this space. As some of you know, I’ve recently started a new job that’s been taking a lot of the energy I would typically expend here. Also, when I write it’s about the same kind of subjects as [...]
