Mobile Web Server (MWS) w/Context and AI Awareness

Om.Is.Me » Blogging Reinvented

I read this and had the idea of an enhanced edition of a Mobile Web Server (MWS) to create a living and automated activity stream.

The Coming Age of Cosmetic Cybernetic Augmentation

…This time the results were magical. As soon as I chose Bill Gates, a photo of Gates appeared on my phone’s screen. I was not aware of blinking or moving the muscles in my face. The phone seemed to have merged with my body, to be as much a part of me as a finger or a toe. I found myself laughing. I couldn’t stop saying, “This is freaky.” And it was.

NY Times: The Cyborg in Us All, via Big Think: Finding Your Inner Cyborg

Truths and Fallacies of Using QR Codes

GigaOm: 5 reasons you’re probably wasting time with QR codes

I think that this article is one part true, but another part has some fallacies that can be exposed by understanding communications, mobile, and context. Therefore, my comment:

Redesigning the UX of Networked Experiences

Excapite: Redesiging the UX of Networked Experiences

I wish that I could have written this first, but I so share in the thought that networked experiences do need a redefining beyond simply capturing and measuring attention streams.

The Re-Release of Palm’s Swan Song, Engadget Reviews the Pre 3

HP Pre 3 via Engadget

Years ago, when I was a much more frequent writer for Brighthand, I went through this long and protracted period of grieving for the loss of Palm as a notable mark for hardware and software innovation. First it was the incoming Handspring Treo device, and then Sony’s colorful/hardware-pushing models, and then the delay of version 5 of the operating system which turned into a longer delay and cancellation of version 6. And then the company being sold to private investors. And finally the DNA of the company being refreshed with webOS, then sold to HP.

Pondering About e-Bike Concepts

Ford e-Bike Concept

If it can get an electric motor, then it will. At least that’s what it seems on one vein of bicycle concepts that I’ve seen lately. Not that I’m totally knocking the idea, there are definitely moments when having an extra pull/push of a motor would be great – espeically when the commute includes additional weight or deodorant-defeating hills. Are the concepts that I’m seeing indicative of a movement, or just a means of throwing research and development on a wall to see what sticks in the marketing department.

The Atlantic: The Shame of College Sports

…Slavery analogies should be used carefully. College athletes are not slaves. Yet to survey the scene—corporations and universities enriching themselves on the backs of uncompensated young men, whose status as “student-athletes” deprives them of the right to due process guaranteed by the Constitution—is to catch an unmistakable whiff of the plantation. Perhaps a more apt metaphor is colonialism: college sports, as overseen by the NCAA, is a system imposed by well-meaning paternalists and rationalized with hoary sentiments about caring for the well-being of the colonized. But it is, nonetheless, unjust. The NCAA, in its zealous defense of bogus principles, sometimes destroys the dreams of innocent young athletes.

The NCAA today is in many ways a classic cartel. Efforts to reform it—most notably by the three Knight Commissions over the course of 20 years—have, while making changes around the edges, been largely fruitless. The time has come for a major overhaul. And whether the powers that be like it or not, big changes are coming. Threats loom on multiple fronts: in Congress, the courts, breakaway athletic conferences, student rebellion, and public disgust. Swaddled in gauzy clichés, the NCAA presides over a vast, teetering glory…

This article came out many days ago from The Atlantic. Its long. And I read it as a college athelete who was just injured and wondered about his prospects to continue down an athletic or academic path (RE: me in Jan ’99 when I tore my ACL). By the time I got to the end, I started wondered if I would encourage my God-kids (and soon niece/nephew) to play anything more than intramurals. Its really a shame. Really…