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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

The iPad

I wonder how many blog posts have been written so far about this device only a few people have actually seen and handled. I kept up with the live blogs during the presentation yesterday. I ooh’ed and ah’ed at the screen shots. I got excited about the price until I found out it was for [....
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Shrinking Privacy, Rising Transparency

Lately my friends and I seem to fall into two camps – those who don’t see issues with Facebook’s new privacy policies, and those who do. I am way more freaked out by the privacy issues linked to always-on location services than I am by Google search results. Surveillance, anyone? (...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Information Flow

When I really get to thinking about information and technology, it ends up being visual to me. I can see myself standing in a Tron-like vector-based grid with information flowing around me. I can reach up and select the pieces I want. Magnify them. Consider them. Make them part of my own consciousne...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Review: Caravan of Thieves and Works Progress Administration

Last night I went to the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago to see Caravan of Thieves and Works Progress Administration. First, a bit about the venue. The School’s theater is cozy and intimate. It allows performers to see the audience. The ambiance is relaxed. The bands were relaxed and ...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Google Wave Input

I’ve been using Google Wave for a few weeks now as a beta user. I read an article about a survey Google put out to gather user feedback. The questions seemed… very … milk-toasty. As in, one of the reasons for liking Wave was that it is a shiny new toy? Er? Having released the [...]
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Flip the Script: Bottom-Up Web Development

“Readers don’t know what they need or what they want. I’m here to give them what I know they need,” the editor said. “Actually, in the reader survey, they told us exactly what they want in the newsletter,” the marketing guy said. I was not only watching two stubbo...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

I Only Need One Percent

Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent inspiration. -Thomas Edison The Great Fingernail Incident of 1981: My friend Amber asked me to hold her 10-speed bike by the back wheel so that she could put the chain back on. As she went to do so the front wheel turned, the bike twisted, and my finger...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Love, Part Three: Risk

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First let go of life. Finally, take a step without feet. -Rumi Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about ...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

Music Find: Cyndi Lauper’s The Body Acoustic

Tonight I found myself thinking about the song True Colors by Cyndi Lauper. Actually, I’m pretty sure the song itself was written by Prince. She’s So Unusual was the very first CD I ever had, purchased in 1985 along with our family’s very first CD player. A very old, good friend of...
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A Brief Candle · 2Y ago

People I Wanted to Be

When I was younger there were several people – well, ok, characters and/or actresses – that I wanted to “be like.” This phase started when I was probably 11… I can’t say when it ended, really. I just stopped thinking that emulating or wishful thinking were good th...
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