Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

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 ]

Voting data!

Here are some voting metrics. I got the charts from the nice people over at Twitter Vote Report. Nationwide Twitter vote map Highest average wait times[ READ MORE ]

And, let’s not forget the many failures of Apple

For reasons I really don’t understand, people really like Apple these days. I’ve long felt that they offer an overpriced product which are generally inferior to similar products on the market. Still, simply because the iPod is popular, people assume it’s good. So too, do people have a positive opinion of the iPhone. With a [ READ MORE ]

Palm should go Android

Palm would benefit from adopting Android for so many reasons! Stop funneling profits to Microsoft Get enthusiastic Android developers from the community Support free software and change the business model enough to ensure future solidity. How long before someone does a *really* good clone of HotSync? Why not just move to an open standard like [ READ MORE ]

Are we nearing an actual Digital Bill of Rights?

Erick Schonfeld wrote a positively brilliant piece over at TechCrunch which took one of the best shots so far at detailing some of the major issues. I get This isn’t the first time that the idea of a Digital Bill of Rights has been discussed but it’s good to see another step forward. Also, see [ READ MORE ]

A $200 tablet?

A recent blog post on TechCrunch discusses their plans to try for the construction of a $200 tablet for light browsing with a modified Firefox 3 (in a special kiosk mode) and VOIP thanks to Skype. Now, we’ve heard rumblings of low-cost, touch-based computing devices before. Remember concept stuff from the XO-2 which was supposed [ READ MORE ]

Design approaches in technology enhanced learning

One of the more in-depth papers that I’ve recently encountered is a really cool paper on the many things that go into figuring out and improving upon technology-enhanced learning. It’s really a very good discussion not just on learning, but about educational thought in the context of design, technology and the sciences. The paper, Design [ 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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