Living in the future: a guest link

Wiredferret blogs about life here in the future.

Blog consumption

Today is Friday, which makes it my personal Monday. Yep, start of my work week. My to-do list for today includes:
Clean off desk
sort mail
find tax info
teach school
go to The Works learning center with the kids
lunch
transfer Doctor Who “Battlefield” to Lockheed (my Zune player)
nap
go to work
But I have some blogging thoughts, first. I’ve [...]

Living the revolution

“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t [...]

I’m not an early adopter, but . . .

I’m not an early adopter. I’m really not. I don’t want new tech because it’s new. I don’t buy new tech and then figure out what I can do with it. I don’t follow bleeding edge advances.
What I am is — I’m a solid alpha user. I want the tech [...]

Meet Miranda

A lot of people ask me about my computer. I have an Eee PC 900 by Asus. It’s small and cute. I refer to it as “the wee precious,” but her name is really Miranda. Miranda Zero, if you must know. Net-tops are getting to be all the rage. [...]

I have a FailWhale T-shirt, you see.

When I read Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense I think I whooped aloud. I know I went around telling everyone about it. This, this managed to explain why I was so attached to my Motorola Q, why I loved Twitter, why LiveJournal downtime made me twitch.
Social proprioception.
Proprioception [...]

Twelve Seconds.

So, I just figured out — after how many months? — how to send photos and videos from my cell phone. I’ve signed up for TwitPic and 12Seconds, both of which send notifs to Twitter when I post a picture or video.
Now, I know perfectly well that I will post utterly mundane photos and [...]