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Andrew Rasiej brought this one up at today’s forum on Social Media & the Haiti Disaster, and it generated the most interest on the Twitter feed. Let’s see if we can get this quantified

From Twitter:
woke up forseeing a worldwide domain move to .HT after Haiti news. Better than Libya (.ly)? Allrig.ht? #.ht 9:39 AM Jan 25
just registered oug.ht–shortlinks 4 haiti. Now where’s tr.im’s opensource codebase? ah! http://github.com/ejw/tr.im#readme #.ht 2:06 PM Jan 25

True or False: People will pay for shortlinks for Haiti

We ought to stop patronizing these Libya-based .ly [...]

“Hey, that’s my score! Cool–another game!”

I came across the following Kurt Vonnegut quote at a bookshop in Seattle.  We were visiting my wife’s sister and her family.  It was raining, I’d had way too much caffeine, and I was wondering how the heck Seattleites dealt with this peculiar combination of wet and wired.  I’d picked through the kid’s books and [...]

…when it comes to completing posts here.
We like good.  Going forward, the idea is to publish what’s good at the expense of what’s perfect.
Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. – Voltaire (WikiQuote)

How to make city spaces more familiar and comfortable for working with each other.

Last Thursday afternoon a bit of coffee-addled inspiration caused me to share my weekly tour of  Chelsea art gallery receptions (courtesy of chelseaartgalleries.com) on foursquare, the new location-based social networking game.  Simply put, I made sure the galleries existed as venues on playfoursquare.com , added them where necessary, and created a To-Do list to [...]

[2009-04-02:  This is a very old post, but I like to keep it around as a benchmark about what trends were perceivable in 2003 and realized today]
I’ve been thinking of wireless portals for a while and I have an idea. I could try to implement the solution myself, but rather than keep quiet until I [...]