First, a quick follow-up on my previous post in the “What’s the point?” series about Facebook. I’ve ceased to log into Facebook on any sort of regular basis. The same “you gotta sign up to see it” philosophy that I praised as clever now strikes me as the most repulsive element of its design. I’m [...]
My latest blog toy is from Feedjit.com. I noticed it on the blog of my fellow Iberian immigrant, Theresa. It will display a tiny map with dots showing where my visitors are coming from, as well as a timeline of recent visitors, and the pages they came from to get here. There are, of course, [...]
Many of you already know that I signed up for Facebook the other day. Several people have shown their surprise that it took me so long to jack into the matrix. I’m still learning about it, but so far I’m impressed. I’ve heard it called “MySpace done right”, and I have to agree to some [...]
Sigh! The reason that the segway didn’t catch on is that it makes the user look like an asshole because he appears to just be standing there and not putting any effort into moving around. Now Honda has gone even further by building one where the user is sitting down appearing to do nothing.