I already wrote about the War of the Worlds 2.0 plan made by Kris Kowal (with some minor help from me) and encouraged you all to try it out. I was really happy to see that some of you did! Hundreds of people participated (including @biz, one of the co-founders of Twitter, who participated with one tweet). Most [...]
Kris Kowal; friend, former Apple coworker, and JavaScript god; has taken the ideas in my previous Twitter Fiction entry and the (much-earlier) work of Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul and he has written up a plan. You must read this plan. It sounds to me like Halloween on Twitter is going to be a blast this [...]
There have already been several different attempts to bring fiction writing to Twitter. A couple come to mind: 140novel: An attempt by Leo Laporte and the hosts of the Buzz Out Loud podcast to collaboratively write a work of fiction 140 characters at a time, apparently without knowing where the story was going beforehand. Obviously [...]
My iPhone on Anathem, and Vice Versa, originally uploaded by JL!. Tonight I decided to try reading a full-length book on my iPhone. I was about 20% of the way through Anathem, so I decided I would just continue it on the iPhone. I happened to have a 50% discount code in an email, so [...]
Tonight’s presidential debate between McCain and Obama began about 50 minutes ago. Steph and I don’t have cable TV, and our reception is pretty bad out here, so I haven’t been watching the actual debate itself on TV. (If you’re curious, we get all our TV from various reputable locations the Net.) I have, however, [...]
I saw this clever web ad today on Engadget and I had to capture it (using ScreenFlow) and show it to you. Watch the PC & Mac Web Commercial – “Op-ed” (3.8 MB)
Last night I saw a link to scans of a comic book of sorts drawn by Scott McCloud. He drew it for the debut of a new web browser coming from Google itself, called Google Chrome. Even if you’re not a geek or not deeply into web browsers, I would recommend you check out the [...]
