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I haven’t written here in quite some time, but I hope to do so soon — I’ve got a handful of interesting projects from the last few months. Here’s a quick preview:
So I’ve been playing with some open source microcontroller hardware, namely the arduino. It’s inexpensive, and easy to implement. This little demo is just a hobby servo motor, an arduino and about fifteen lines of ruby code.
It sits in an IRC channel, and moves whenever I announce a particular mood.
Code and details to come!
A Whole Lotta Nothing – Becoming an old (blogging) man
But I think the root of the problem (described in various media outlets over the past year or so) of snarky, or mean-spirited, or generally unhelpful comments becoming the norm has to do with the distance we’ve achieved from those original link-and-essay heavy blogs.
Some Blog Updates – The Fishbowl
What I found, though, was this design discouraged me from posting. If what I had to say couldn’t be stretched to multiple paragraphs, I’d as likely not say it. The result was that maintaining my blog became a chore. A lot of things I could have said with just a link, a quote and a (hopefully) pithy comment were never said, or worse were stretched into posts too long to sustain their source material.
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Blogs as dead media | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
I warned you that blogging was inherently unstable. It’s built on an unstable platform. How hard is that to understand?
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Man, that much was dead obvious from day one; commentary was the aspect
of blogging that never, ever worked.
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How to publish charts in blogs and websites? « OECD Factblog
Everyday, bloggers and site editors use statistics to prove a point. How convenient would it be if they could easily support their argument with a chart. This is the type of thing that goes without saying in the print world, but is not that obvious on the web and on blogs.
