February 2011
It’d be funny to have release notes say: “We finally made this app do something useful.”
Robert Scoble’s Severed Head, Truthiness, and the Surrender Chicken « The Quora Review http://lar.me/d8
Why are some people so adamant in their defense of #Quora? Vested interest? Knee-jerk? Posturing? @vark @answers
January 2011
How about a self-hosted Q&A service replacing @quora? Maybe @automattic could create one. Or @vanilla. @vark @answers
Installing LibreOffice Portable 3.3 on a USB key. / Liberté et bureautique.
New media changing oral history - NOW - Concordia University http://lar.me/c-
Man, do I hate @Quora! It’s even more patronizing, demeaning, and antisocial as I first thought!
I might prefer bamboo filters over paper ones, in my Abid-style “steep-and-release pour-over drip.” #SaRPoD #coffee
Challenges ahead, for “Larry Page’s Google 3.0” - BusinessWeek http://lar.me/cu
“Hollywood is looking unusually healthy. What’s going on?” http://lar.me/cb
“I don’t understand what the big fuss is with online screaming video. Doesn’t all the yelling get annoying?”
“Know what my problem is? My baby loves me so nice, I can’t get the Blues no more.”
Maybe the free bird isn’t trying to nag the caged one.
Fried okra would be delicious, just now. And collard greens.
When a lot of people love something I dislike, I get perplexed. E.g. Lost in Translation, Angry Birds, Quora…
So, Steve Jobs’s biological father is Syrian and his adoptive mother is Armenian? Interesting.. http://lar.me/c2
“all in all, I kind of like myself and I’m not that anxious to change.” — Steven P. Jobs in 1985 http://lar.me/c1
“the hope of modernity: that new ideas can make us better.”
Apple Reaches for Greatness Without Apology
http://lar.me/c0
Am I really the only one finding this ethnocentric? http://xkcd.com/850/
What’s going on with the Concordia portal? Has it been hacked? /cc @ConcordiaNews
Link to an intriguing series, sent by a student: BBC Radio 4 - The Secret History of Social Networking http://lar.me/by
Congrats to Super-Mayor @saroshig! / Ma douce a plus besoin de Foursquare!
FIFEQ, Montreal’s ethnographic film festival, announced: http://www.fifeq.ca/
Exactly! “Letting go is part of finding peace in this information overload age.” #GTD @afrognthevalley http://lar.me/bs
Wouldn’t it be neat if #textbook adoption were accompanied by a license for images as teaching material? @vark @answers
Random idea for a character in a gossip show spoof: Fred Carpet.
Wouldn’t it be neat if #OnlineBackup (like @Mozy and @Carbonite) could also do sync/share like @Dropbox? @vark @answers
Seems like @Quora hype’s effect. @vark sends me a notification telling me that they “miss finding great answers” for me.
Surprisingly useful explanation of social network analysis, over on @Twinfluence http://lar.me/bg
Cours: INF 6107 - Le Web social http://lar.me/bf
Warming up to Apple’s iWork and Magic Trackpad. / Le fait d’utiliser des choses en pratique change la donne.
FredCavazza.net > Social Media Landscape 2011 http://ping.fm/m83Vd
AFP: ‘Baby Doc’ back in Haiti for first time in 25 years http://lar.me/b9
Contrary to what some people argue, we part-time instructors are actually more available to learners, and they notice.
People can’t download public files shared through iWork.com? What’s up with that? @vark @answers
Introduction to Sociology - Wikibooks, open books for an open world http://lar.me/b0
Anybody knows a quick-install “Hot or Not” clone for a webhost? @vark @answers
My tech wish for 2011: Humanism.
Podcasts I miss: Dailysonic (@Varga et al.) and Basscast (@TalkBass). #Podfade
“I get off on making people satisfied with their lives.”
Nice! @JesseGrosjean porting his apps’ sync to @Dropbox. http://disq.us/xntpu
Will @AppShopper start covering the Mac App Store?
Finally! @Prezi for iPad: http://prezi.com/ipad/
Robert Harrison and Entitled Opinions coming back this afternoon with Moby Dick. KZSU 3p PST http://lar.me/am
Lost my DSL connection. Dreamt about ISP as reliable as electricity. Noticed how spoiled I am.
How can @CafeMyriade manage having “only one Kenya?” Time to Shake Things Up. http://lar.me/al
Nice PNG @CafeMyriade, chocolate toy candy. Been a while since I had this kind of coffee profile.
#Balados
Culture numérique, complexité, innovation
@xporte: http://lar.me/ah http://lar.me/ai
@SparkCBC: http://lar.me/aj
Transparency/Privacy: Message to the Concordia Community from Peter Kruyt, Chair of the Board of Governors http://lar.me/ag
Are there shownotes for the #OpenLeaks interview on @worldstechpod?
