Posts Tagged ‘ Media ’

New startup page

After having Slashdot as my browser’s startup page for over 8 years now, I am switching to having Google Reader now displayed by default. I do this primarily because I am very annoyed by the changes Slashdot has made recently as it seems to be attempting to make itself more “Web 2.0″. When I hit [ READ MORE ]

Starting my own Israeli political party

I’ve decided that, in honor of the Israeli elections, I’m going to start my own political party. The one rule: nothing you say can be understandable. Basically, it’ll fit in pretty well with the others. This new party will be headed by none other than Dror Avraham[ READ MORE ]

DTV transition will not be delayed!

Here’s one for getting it over with. It seems that the bill before the house (looks like H.R. 339) proposing that the DTV transition will be delayed has failed to pass. Hat tip to Slashdot. The magic begins on Feb 17th![ READ MORE ]

Could Jaiku + Laconica = Twitter killer?

With the recent buzz about identi.ca and Google’s Jaiku becoming open source, could the two projects learn from one another and produce something even better? It seems that identi.ca’s underlying software, Laconica, runs on the LAMP stack while Jaiku will be released for AppEngine. It will be interesting to see how the OpenMicroBlogging folks take [ READ MORE ]

Bet on the future

Post over at TechCrunch reveals the launch of a startup called Nostradomical which encourages users to vote on future events. This newcomer is In good company with other companies like HubDub, Predictify, NewsFutures, The Foresight Institute and Intrade. Interestingly enough, Intrade allows you to bet real money for real returns while Predictify only gives cash [ READ MORE ]

Rant about B&N

On new years’ eve, I took a little trip to the local Barnes & Noble with Sarah and Ari to return some books that Ari got as gifts. We walked up to the customer service desk and were told that we needed to conduct our return business at the front registers. Fine. At the registers, [ READ MORE ]

The W3C has been busy: web gems of the future

After reading a very cool post on InfoQ about current issues with asynchronous communication between browser and server, I looked into the HTML 5 WebSockets specification and it’s really very cool! Yes, people seem to be getting most excited about offline web-apps,  client-side structured storage in HTML 5, but a bi-directional socket between client and [ READ MORE ]

Thank you to JOPP!

I just got back from a workshop run by the JOPP. What a blast! I was really honored with the chance to give a talk to a fantastic crowd with good questions. Thank you to all the fine folks over at JOPP and all the people who showed up to listen to me rant about [ READ MORE ]

Don’t be scared of stuff on the internet

Positively fantastic post by Adam Thierer over at the Technology Liberation Front about putting youth social networking and safety in perspective. It’s a very well-written and well-thought-out piece which puts out some real truths about the disparity between what kids do online and what their parents think is happening. I encourage educators, community organizers and, [ READ MORE ]

A very good thing: Theora 1.0

Caught wind, via OSNews, that Ogg Theora has finally gone 1.0! Who’s pumped for wider adoption of a free video codec that’s actually really good? Now, if only there could be some decent encoders? I’m not sure about the status of ffmpeg2theora or others&#[ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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