Spinuzzi

Reviewing books since 2003.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Good idea, poor execution

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Obama's idea to text supporters his VP pick was a good idea, but in execution, it got scooped by the MSM.
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Breathless Android coverage; phone is simply a feature

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Rumors are "confirmed" that the HTC Dream, running Google's Android OS, will be sold by T-Mobile starting on my birthday (Oct ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The nexus-state

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David Ronfeldt and Danielle Varda write in the summer 2008 issue of RAND Review that they expect a new sort of state to emerge: From this,...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Coworking and business

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NotAnMBA has a roundup of businesses and business models built around coworking.

Reading :: Discourse, Technology and Change

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Discourse, Technology and Change By Brenton Faber I've been meaning to read this book ever since it came out, but UT's library doesn...

Android SDK is out; Android phone gets FCC approval; is all forgiven?

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Google has gone through a rough patch with Android. Developers have been angry that the SDK has not been updated in a while. Meanwhile, the ...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Qualitative data analysis on the cheap

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SAGE Publications is advertising a new book called Doing Qualitative Research Using Your Computer: A Practical Guide ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

We were cyborgs before we were human

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That's the implication of this article , which claims that the invention of cooking stimulated a big leap in human cognition. From the o...
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Riding the Torch

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"Riding the Torch" is a novella by Norman Spinrad . The premise is that humanity has destroyed the Earth via nuclear war, and cent...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Reading :: Mobile Communication and Society

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Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective By Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Araba Sey Mobile co...

Twellow

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Twellow is a mashup that makes Twitter more like LinkedIn . Twellow is an automatically generated directory of Twitter users, organized by ...

Obama will announce VP via text message. Smart idea?

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Yes, but that's because of the implementation , not just the technology. Last night, in a cell phone text message that was quickly follo...

TOC comes to Google Docs

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Lifehacker has the appropriate Javascript .

Reading :: Designing for the Social Web

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Designing for the Social Web By Joshua Porter Bill Hart-Davidson recommended this book to me a while back. (Porter is his former student.) I...

Reading :: The Blind Side

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The Blind Side By Michael Lewis The Blind Side has been selected as this year's First Year Forum book at the University of Texas at Aus...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

The future face of the Web

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According to this Adaptive Path video , it will be cluttered and widgety. I like Adaptive Path a lot, but I was hoping the future web would ...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Editors' reviews of Network are up...

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... and they are awfully kind. Amazon is accepting pre-orders with a 20% discount . Check it out.
Sunday, August 03, 2008

I want to believe, but the Mars Phoenix won't let me

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Yesterday, Slashdot ran a story claiming that the President had been briefed by NASA scientists about something, and speculated that it had...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

On the shores of Ontario Lacus

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According to the Cassini spacecraft, Saturn's moon Titan has a complete hydrological cycle based on ethane rather than water (which cann...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Netroots crafting Democratic party platform with collaborative software

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We've been hearing about the use of collaborative software for crafting platforms. The Republican Party unveiled a crowdsourcing tool fo...
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