Author: synaesmedia

  • What is FAZR?

  • Brandon Titus is using SdiDesk to outline Project Bluesnake.

  • Ross Mayfield on the wikiHow story. wikiHow to Open Content

  • Danny Ayers is looking for a business model to fund his life of RDF and personal knowledge management research. Danny has a range of interests very similar to mine. (He even has some software that really wants to be SdiDesk 😉 And which was written long before I got started.) At the same time, some…

  • LifeHacker has a story that speaks to one of my fantasies. Now we’re getting cheap digital cameras and camera-phones, I’d like some really good software which could let me take photos of diagrams, scrawled on a piece of paper, and turn them into something useful. I want something really smart. Which can figure out the…

  • Sig Rinde : Forthcoming: tree structures should be chopped down (continued)

  • Dave Winer : Why [do] we have to design our software to the user who freaks out? … when we are basically disempowering the user who is curious? … People aren’t stupid. And people who design software for people who are stupid, get what they deserve, which is stupid users. I prefer to design software…

  • I’ve been meaning to read Hugh Macleod’s How to be creative for a while but never got round to it until today. Haven’t finished yet, but wow!, it’s good. (So far)

  • Interesting question : Where to find a startup company if you want to work for one.

  • Sigurd Rinde vs. hierarchy : Do the test: 1. Write a letter, using a word processor, to a friend about some tax issues, some personal stuff and a great new joke you just heard. 2. Save the file to a folder. Choose the folder according to either recipient, theme or whatever you normally choose. Your…