Classic: Hacking John McCain
By leelefever on March 27, 2007 - 12:49pm
John McCain's campaign recently created a MySpace page and made a few mistakes along the way. They used Mike Davidson's (the co-founder of Newsvine) design template (without credit) and even images from Mike's server. When Mike discovered this, he switched out an image as a prank. Hilarious.
View With CommentsA Web 2.0 Valentine from Social Signal
By leelefever on February 12, 2007 - 10:17am
Alex, Rob and the folks at Social Signal in Canada put together this funny little Web 2.0 love letter. You can send it to someone from their Valentine page. An excerpt...
Sir Tim - You must feel SOME responsibility!
By leelefever on August 10, 2005 - 9:53am
I really enjoyed reading the BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee. But, I was in awe at how Mark Lawson kept trying to get him to say that he felt responsible for the bad elements of the web...
But do you feel responsible? You say humanity will do whatever it does with it, do you feel responsible for what happens?
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the web would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with webcams. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
View With Comments43 RipOffs
By leelefever on June 21, 2005 - 11:02am
I suppose imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there are some shameless 43 Things copy-cat sites popping up internationally.
Check out Aimido, which is not bashful about adopting almost the exact same look and functionality as 43 Things. Wow, they even have management and advisors. To me, this says: “Here are the people who couldn’t find anything better to do than rip off an existing siteâ€. They look so respectable too, except maybe Harald. I’d like to know exactly what kind of advice the advisors are giving?
View With CommentsFamily Guy Blog
By leelefever on April 29, 2005 - 10:14am
Chris pointed me to the Family Guy Blog and my first thought was, oh man, this may suck. The Family Guy is such a clever and painfully funny show, I had low expectations for how it would translate to the blog world. Would it be Stewie's character? Would it be another crappy character blog?
From what I've seen so far, they've done it right. I'm impressed. In Channel 9 fashion, the blog offers a view into the production of the show and the people behind it. It has RSS, comments and all.
View With Comments"...cast" is the new "...ster"
By leelefever on February 25, 2005 - 11:49am
If you haven’t noticed, lots of new frankenwords are making their way through the online lexicon. Napster was one of the originals, prompting a number of new names like Friendster, Feedster and Dogster.
View With CommentsI Think This Internet Thing is for Real
By leelefever on February 17, 2005 - 2:08pm
Last night Sachiko and I were talking about monthly bills and what we could do without.
Cable/Satellite? Perhaps gladly.
Land line? Not a problem.
Cell phones? We could live.Internet access? Never.
It was funny to me to think of the resources I grew up using and how, just over 7-8 years, Internet access has become one of the absolute must-haves. I could not imagine a world without it. Actually, I can barely imagine a world without wireless high speed access.
View With CommentsThe Problem with Tabs in Firefox...
By leelefever on January 29, 2005 - 11:12am
...Is that my brain hasn't quite caught up. The transition from IE was effortless in some ways, but I seem to be "challenged" by the tabbed interface. I exhibit great skill creating new tabs (ctrl + t), but when my intention is to go to another browser window, I still waste time looking at the bottom of the screen, like I would with IE.
I'm dedicated to changing this behavior because tabs are better and faster (like so many things with Firefox). I have been trained for years that new browser windows are located in the task bar and anything else simply goes against the natural order of things (or so my brain thinks). I'm thinking this is just a phase.
View With CommentsI Admit It, I Said It
By leelefever on December 27, 2004 - 6:27pm
I was thinking back about all the things I learned this year and something popped into my head that made be cringe, and laugh a little. A few weeks ago, I ran my first focus group. My teammates and I were sharing a concept with a group of managers and looking for their perceptions, ideas, thoughts etc.
I was the lead and really wanted to make a connection with the group as I described the process. Then, a phrase came out of my mouth that I would later regret. I didn’t plan on it and I’m not sure where it came from, but it happened. I told them that I want them to “Think outside the box, inside the box and around the boxâ€. Ugh. Even reading it now I cringe.
View With CommentsA Theory on Why People React Differently to Technology
By leelefever on July 26, 2004 - 8:13am
Seblogging: Reactions to technologies
After the recent discussion on the last post, I thought this was interesting and a little funny. It's Douglas Adams personal theory about why different people react so differently to technology:
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