What do we really believe about “Federation”?
It’s not a word we use anymore except on Star Trek.
There’s “federalism” — a philosophy grounded in deep thinking about who we are and what we should fear.
But what are the practical consequences of a “federalist doctrine” if the deep thinking hasn’t been done in a while?
I just had a funny misreading of a microsoft ad.
Original:
“Microsoft. Your potential. Our passion.”
Remix:
“Microsoft. Your potential. Our patent.”
The cell phone industry is starting to incorporate GPS chips into cell phones.
So far most people have focused on the privacy and security angles:
Kanwar Chadha: “The U.S. market today is driven primarily by safety and security”
Sales of location-enabling chipsets for cell phones in the United States are racing ahead, driven largely by mandatory deadlines set last November by the Federal Communications Commission to enhance public safety responses.
I’m more interested in the application: transforming the cell phone into a referencing tool.
We’re so submurged in the print world that we still use the term “bookmark” to refer to electronic notations. We’ll come up with better shorthand later, but for now, the term serves the purpose.
Imagine you’ve lost contact with your friend at Yankee stadium or you got a flat tireon a country road 2 miles outside Womelsdorf.
You could dictate directions, or you could send them them the co-ordinates. I’m sure the texting people could develop a convention for this and the mapping people could release a cell phone version of their app (If they haven’t already).
Tour de France imitators like me, could tag their area’s biggest hills
Related:
In May, I figured out how to quote C-SPAN’s real audio clips.
The URLs are hidden behind javascript, but I managed to
discover the querystring syntax. Now it’s August and some of the links are broken because they moved the files to a different server.
Whenever I hear something interesting, I make a mental note,
but when I’m near a computer, I make an entry into my openreferences.
Hearing Lawrence Di Rita describe “anti-american forces” as a euphamism for ‘terrorists'”stuck me as a quotable moment and got me thinking again about how to expand referencing into other media. #
Last week Aaron talked about “google TV.” #
Google hooks up a bunch of their machines to video capture cards and begins recording all the TV channels. Then, they make a full-text available using the closed captioning information.
So, let?s say you’re curious about Howard Dean’s stance of smallpox vaccinations. You Google TV for “Howard Dean smallpox” and get back a bunch of animated GIFs showing key scenes(basically a still whenever the picture majorly changes) from the surrounding show, perhaps with a short textual excerpt from cleaned up closed captioning data. (More)
I entirely agree. Spread the meme!
We’ve got a lot of work to do to encourage broadcasters to
develop interfaces that don’t break, but I don’t think “ref TV”
is necessarily that far off.
To move forward, 3 things need to happen:
“Viral Marketing”, as a meme, has succeeded in distributing itself but it’s failed to penatrate old ways of thinking. Marketing people now ask software designers to implement the “send this page to a friend” feature or controlled syndication, but they don’t understand the bigger issue:
networks that don’t try to direct the flow of communication make better markets.
When people really “get it”, they’ll start asking for “Cool URLs“, RSS feeds, and permalinks.
Just as webloggers have developed terms and criteria like “permalinks”, “feeds”, “posts”, and “trackback”, referencing advocates need to promote a set of terms and criteria that define openmedia.