Monthly Archives: June 2008

Chris Anderson Speaks on Free.

By Adam | Published: June 5, 2008
Courtesy of the Jason Calcanis and the gang at Mahalo, Wired Editor-In-Chief and Long Tail stopped by to give an hour long talk on his new book: Free. Upon release, he will be giving it away, you guessed it… Free. Both videos are about 30mins, so it’s a 1 hour viewing time. There are some [...]
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More Brilliantly Halting Prescience…

By Adam | Published: June 3, 2008
I was researching something and came across this old interview with Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT (link to her personal site) in support of her 1996 book “Life On The Screen.” Some choice tidbits (Dr. Turkle noted where appropriate, otherwise it’s the author [...]
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Tell Me A Story… And It Better Be A Good One.

By Adam | Published: June 2, 2008
h/t to Slashdot for this… Apparently, there’re plans afoot to blend a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) with a weekly TV show on the Sci-Fi Network in the US. Most of the reaction in the blogosphere have pointed towards this being ill-advised. I agree, but perhaps for different reasons than “It’s gonna suck.” [...]
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The Big .Mac Mystery

By Adam | Published: June 2, 2008
On the heels of the WWDC next week, comes news of a possible, ever-so-slight shift in strategy on the part of Apple. From the New York Times Bits Blog: …there is a flurry of speculation about improvements to a minor icon an the Apple Pantheon: the .Mac online service. For six years, .Mac has been [...]
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