NotesSeriously? No definitive answer why? How about: It's more efficient than voice and dispenses with a lot of the friendly handshaking involved in making a call.<br><br>Texting is less disruptive and all-consuming of attention, and is more easily interleaved into the course of a day. <br><br>That is, if you're not doing anything that doesn't need constant visual attention. Like, you know, driving.Unfurl
Notes"The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "Unfurl
NotesIt's not a dead badger, but it'll do. "Kasey McMahon decided to combine an interest in taxidermy with her PC. Fearing that the natural world is being replaced by technology, the artist installed a working computer inside of an idle beaver."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Hereâs a brief review of the last 6 months of grassroots tech / startup community organizing in Ann Arbor, MI, originally intended for the July 2009 Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup (but foiled by a blown projector bulb)âŠ"Unfurl
Notes"Based on the amount of time we put into the book this works out at something slightly below slave labour rates. Never write a technical book for the money. No really. Spend your evenings in McDonalds if you need extra cash."Unfurl
Notes"Geeks can now find a home, build business success and form strong social bonds with others of their kind in the new private workspaces. Workantile Exchange, a co-working facility on Main Street, and Tech Brewery on the city's north side, have begun to offer workspace, peer support and networking to freelancers and start-ups, respectively. Neither is an incubator."Unfurl
Notes"Geeks can now find a home, build business success and form strong social bonds with others of their kind in the new private workspaces. Workantile Exchange, a co-working facility on Main Street, and Tech Brewery on the city's north side, have begun to offer workspace, peer support and networking to freelancers and start-ups, respectively. Neither is an incubator."Unfurl
Notes"Others attend hoping to meet venture capitalists; some are just attracted to a night life that involves actually talking to creative people doing exciting things, rather than heading out to clubs and bars that beat you into silence with their thundering rhythms. "Unfurl
NotesOuch. Company's fine, but these people suck? Kinda brutal to say. "We let go a handful of people, under 20, and it was performance related mainly"Unfurl
Notes"A big problem I have with these sort of blog posts, though, is that too many of them ... are written after one book, or one editor, or one publishing company. ... and you really can't extrapolate anything meaningful from a single data point."Unfurl
Notes"I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book thatâs hierarchically organized like this. "Unfurl
Notes"In a conversation with an out-of-stater earlier this week, I was asked whatâs going on in the Michigan technology community, and what were the groups to connect with?"Unfurl
Notes"A new "sport" based around unravelling the mass of wires that can typically be found beneath computer desks the world over is taking off in the western US."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Excited about new technology? Stumped on a problem? Trying to keep up with new software releases but don't have time to read an entire book? Then Wrox Blox are the answer!"Unfurl
Notes"Today we have launched Wrox Blox, a new product for programmers that hopefully will strike a chord with a market that often looks to the web for fast, bite-sized content."Unfurl
Notes"Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."Unfurl
Notes"Quag7, one of my contemporaries and collaborators, absolutely nails how to put up an informative webpage about a technically geeky and nostalgic subject."Unfurl
Notes"TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace."Unfurl
Notes"I've already written about the mashup I created by combining my dynamic Tech Memeorandum reading list and the results from the Technorati API on my main blog."Unfurl
Notes'In my classes where a handful of people always have a laptop open, there's a subculture of wired (well, I guess "wireless") students who are busy engaging in their own academic experience.'Unfurl
Notes'"I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it."' Ironic, coming from an antimatter weapons researcher.Unfurl
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