Mad Thoughts

Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.

July 3, 2010 10:31 am
Just noticed this. Very sweet. Nintendo.com is using 8-bit Mario as an icon.

Just noticed this. Very sweet. Nintendo.com is using 8-bit Mario as an icon.

June 30, 2010 5:13 pm
"From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture."

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A quote from the Woot.com CEO to his employees, via Mashable.com.
February 23, 2010 7:43 pm
everythinginthesky: The Webclock shows you the time alongside a piece of text taken from a random website featuring that time. This is cool.

everythinginthesky:

The Webclock shows you the time alongside a piece of text taken from a random website featuring that time.

This is cool.

January 20, 2010 7:54 pm
"In the intricacies of high-level European diplomacy, there’s two things Paris and Berlin can agree on: Conan is better, and you’d better not be using Internet Explorer."

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France and Germany agree: Don’t use Internet Explorer if you want to be safe online
January 8, 2010 11:58 am
"Unfortunately for us, though, the intellectual fate of our historical generation is unlikely to matter much in the long haul. It is our misfortune to live through the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race, a misfortune because surplus always breaks more things than scarcity. Scarcity means valuable things become more valuable, a conceptually easy change to integrate. Surplus, on the other hand, means previously valuable things stop being valuable, which freaks people out. To make a historical analogy with the last major increase in the written word, you could earn a living in 1500 simply by knowing how to read and write. The spread of those abilities in the subsequent century had the curious property of making literacy both more essential and less professional; literacy became critical at the same time as the scribes lost their jobs. The same thing is happening with publishing; in the 20th century, the mere fact of owning the apparatus to make something public, whether a printing press or a TV tower, made you a person of considerable importance. Today, though, publishing, in its sense of making things public, is becoming similarly de-professionalized; YouTube is now in the position of having to stop 8 year olds from becoming global publishers of video. The mere fact of being able to publish to a global audience is the new literacy, formerly valuable, now so widely available that you can’t make any money with the basic capability any more."

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The SXSW Interactive panel that I hustled to get launched (and was denied) was going to have Clay Shirkey on it. This brilliant guy who says things like the above, was going to sit next to me, a guy who laughs at this type of shit.

Lucky him.

Clay Shirky (via azspot)

BANG

(via tanya77)

This is somehow both discouraging and encouraging; discouraging because, well, you know, this is how Nwk has traditionally made its money; encouraging because it succinctly lays out the challenge: Find the scarcity points in the new information ecosystem, and supply those things extremely well.

(via newsweek)

December 30, 2009 5:28 pm
Done. salsus: I took the 2009 survey - you should too.

Done.

salsus:

I took the 2009 survey - you should too.

December 23, 2009 2:49 pm
Tartan Background pattern generator

I’ve been kind of crazy for plaid lately so this was a nice diversion for me.

10:38 am
Firefox 3.5 Inches Past IE7 As World's Most Popular Browser

Just in time for me to switch to Chrome. Ha!

(I still use and love Firefox for development, but Chrome is my go to browser for browsing.)

December 6, 2009 9:26 pm

Working through my Google Reader

What was once the ultimate tool for keeping up with the news and blogs I was interested in has now become a burden. A source of anxiety and work to make my way through.

What’s the answer? Rely on the cloud (Twitter, Tumblr, and friends) to give me the news I need?

How do you consume on the internet? Do you use RSS readers? How is that working out for you?

November 18, 2009 11:42 am
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I’m using a Three Wolf Moon theme in my Firefox browser. My power is rising.

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I’m using a Three Wolf Moon theme in my Firefox browser.

My power is rising.

October 3, 2009 5:26 pm
Wow. I guess Facebook really does want to be more like Twitter.com. They’ve even ripped off Twitter’s, “only work 70% of the time” approach to website functionality.

Wow. I guess Facebook really does want to be more like Twitter.com. They’ve even ripped off Twitter’s, “only work 70% of the time” approach to website functionality.

2:01 pm

Finally, a down to earth, common case example of what Google Wave might be useful for. via Lifehacker.com