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Wikipedia I’ve yet to read Nick Carr’s latest, The Shallows, which takes a pessimistic view of the effects of writing and scanning  tweets, SMSs, IMs, etc. on our neural wiring. It’s on my reading list. Certainly his claim that our … Continue reading →

I was finally able to spend quality time with the Parse.ly Reader, an app designed to show some of the capabilities of the underlying Parse.ly platform, called P3, which is currently in beta. To be clear, unlike many other players … Continue reading →

Here I’ve been getting excited about  new user interface niceties such as voice rec in Windows Phone 7 and Android, while completely missing the bigger picture. The National Science Foundation has announced it will be funding a NeuroPhone, “the first … Continue reading →

You know it’s August when The New York Times makes front pages news out of five brain researchers taking a rafting trip in Glen Canyon, Utah. It was really a working vacation, as these high-powered scientists, accompanied by a Times’ … Continue reading →

I downloaded OpenVBX, Twilio’s bendable, programmable cloud-based unified communications platform, tried out a few call control flows, and then drifted off into a reverie about telecom start-ups before the dot.com crash. When the CLECs and ASPs first came on the … Continue reading →

Nick Carr has again rethought another aspect of technology in his Rough Type blog. This time he takes up arms against  hyperlinks or as he refers to them, “textual gnats” and “more violent form of the footnote.” On this one, … Continue reading →

I’m waiting for the assigned Google scribe to start generating notes for the session on BigQuery and Prediction APIs. Am I in the wrong virtual room? In any case, a quick read of the documentation for Google’s machine-learning-in-the-cloud APIs makes … Continue reading →

The written word seems so horribly low tech. It hasn’t changed much for a few millennia, at least since the ancient Greeks invented symbols for vowels.