I posted a new story on Critical Futures today. It’s another one from ( Read more... )

So I’ve wanted to put together a “best of” roll call of my posts here ( Read more... )

Over the past week or two, I’ve been working on a number of side projects that I’ve started to realize as a new and interesting project in and of themselves.

The first project is that I’ve been working on (re)designing a website with/for my friend Scott, who is a composer/voice actor/podcaster type. While he has a lot of HTML skills he’s never ( Read more... )

This is the first post I’ve written in a long time that wasn’t about open source/technology stuff. Not that I’m not still fascinating (or cranking out blog entries about that,) but it’s fun to tred on other ground for a while. This post grows out of some very abstract thinking I’ve been doing inrelation work about the nature of blogging.

First off ( Read more... )

So, while it might seem like all I do on the interent is write wordy personal narratives or lengthy informal essays, I do in fact visit other websites and participate in other discussions. Here are a few recent tycho sightings and other bits of news (related to this site):

• Most obviously, we have a new design and a new sub-blog, coda. I initially ( Read more... )

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I caught wind of this twitter the other day that encapsulated perfectly the kind of fear I have about getting cornered (by someone else, or my intention) into making a “community site” that seems to beg for drupal.

For the not-as-geeky among you, feel free to skip to the end where I hope to ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago (wow, it’s been a couple of weeks!), a new twitter-like service called identi.ca started up. It’s open source, and incorporates a lot of “duh” features that twitter doesn’t yet have, so I’m a fan in general, but I think it’s doomed to fail ultimately because it doesn’t have the community that twitter has-yet, and I don’t think ( Read more... )

As I am, apparently, entering into a new blogging niche, I’ve been trying to get the word out about Critical Futures and looking around at the field. Here’s a link dump with what I’ve found, if you’re interested.

• Space Haggis - Great name and it has an interactive element which I think is really clever, though it’s not my piece of cake, I can ( Read more... )

On Monday, that is next Monday (there! a firm week from now-if slightly relative-commitment) I’m going to start a posting to a new blog. This isn’t breaking news to readers of this site as I’ve been talking about this with some of you for weeks, and mentioning it sporadically on the blog. Let me tell you about the site, and what I intend for it.

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So these Creative Commons Licenses are pretty popular with the kids today. And they are. Creative commons is a great way to compensate for some of the short fallings of the contemporary copyright system that tends to privilege corporations rather than individual content creators. I’m a big fan, and I often find myself talking about the goodness ( Read more... )