Thomas Stenumgård

20 June 10

I’ve seen this quote before, but I came across it again now when watching Fred Wilson’s presentation 10 Ways to Be Your Own Boss at a recent Behance conference.

So good

16 June 10

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Wanted

Glasses with:

- augmented reality (for navigation, information, etc.)

- microphone

- speakers

- camera

- GPS

- gyrometer

- “screen” sharing

- mobile Internet

- nice design

Posted: 11:21 AM

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Future…

In 40 years we will not be able to distinguish between biological machines and non-biological humans. Basically the machines will take over and our goal should be that they are nice to us.

- Brad Feld

I’m sure it must have been intense to live through the first and second industrial revolution, but I’m so happy to be living right now.

In this perspective it’s easy to imagine tablets as the first step away from desktop computers…

15 June 10

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“ But if technology and the ability to be connected disappear further into the background, what will occupy our foreground? A bit of the humanity we’ve always valued in the “real world.” Legislators who are currently fixated on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education as the key to innovation will realize that STEM needs some STEAM—some art in the equation. We’ll witness a return to the integrity of craft, the humanity of authorship, and the rebalancing of our virtual and physical spaces. We’ll see a 21st-century renaissance in arts- and design-centered approaches to making things, where you—the individual—will take center stage in culture and commerce.

— Your Life In 2020, Forbes

Posted: 4:40 PM

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“ I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today. Not just looking at it, but browsing menus and interacting. This is a revolution, guys.

— Seth Godin (via thegongshow)

Posted: 1:03 AM

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Soft Hand by Willard Grant Conspiracy. From Regard The End.

Willard Grant Conspiracy are an alt country band currently based near Palmdale, California. Originally formed in 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts by Robert Fisher and Paul Austin. The band operates as a collective, with vocalist Fisher the only permanent member. Fisher’s voice and Americana style has been compared to both John Cale and Johnny Cash, with most songs being acoustic.

If people don’t like this song I’ll shut down the blog with immediate effect ;-)

Posted: 12:10 AM

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“ There were two other pieces over the weekend that also spoke to the critical role that attention plays now. danah boyd wrote how the hackers on 4chan are not about gaining access to systems (security hacking) but instead about (mis)directing attention. The more we rely on external systems for allocating our attention, the more we will be susceptible to such hacks.

— Continuations

13 June 10

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“ Should I put a Tweet This button on the posts? A Facebook Like button? I really resist doing this because, while it may seem like a good idea today, in a year or so, will it still seem right? What if I had put Myspace links on, or Digg links on my stories in 2005? When you go back through the archive those would seem crazy, almost defacing of the content. Don’t those things belong in toolbars or bookmarklets?

— Scripting News

Posted: 12:25 PM

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“ Having a “dashboard” to edit content is wrong, imho, and represents a huge step backward in the art of blogging. I want to bring it back, and make it a competitive issue.

— Scripting News

11 June 10

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“ A lot of people have begun using the term ecosystem to describe these big platforms. That captures their decentralized, emergent character, but ecosystems do not have a central point of control. Apple decided to eliminate third party analytics between one release and the next. That doesn’t happen in an ecosystem. The right analogy is a government.

— Brad Burnham/USV - Web Services as Governments

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh