May 2, 2005 – LIVEdigitally

Watch What You Say

Posted on May 2, 2005 by feeling entropy

You’re on speaker phone! Years ago I was one of those annoying Nextel ‘beep beep’ users. Nextel had a great idea, speaker phone use with mobile phones. The craze didn’t really catch on, and I have since left Nextel for the T-Mobile. The ‘Get More’ campaign with super-hot Catherine Zeta persuading me to use my mobile more, dragged me away from speakerphone friendly Nextel.

It looks as though lately, more phone makers are answering my call of desperation. Here’s a few phones that now come with speakerphone. The biggest issue with speakerphone able phones is people knowing when to turn speakerphone off!

Here Kitty Kitty Kitty…

Posted on May 2, 2005 by feeling entropy

– l.s.d. LD Reviewer

I have thousands of files. In fact, I am one of those that praises the lack of viruses aimed towards Mac’s. Yet l feel as though my sheer number of files are an un-organizing virus that multiplies exponentially with no signs of slowing down. For example the hundreds upon hundreds of files named DSC03243.jpeg, courtesy of my voracious appetite for taking pictures.

I’ve rat packed hundreds of bookmarks, dozens of text documents, and a few thousand mp3’s for starters.

I’m trying to manage all of this using an interface created well over 20 years ago, when computers had a whopping 128kb of memory. The idea back then was a basic principal: create a computing environment that is analogous to my desk. Well my desk is a mess, it always has been, and now my desktop is becoming mockingly similar. The truth is, no matter how many folders and subfolders I create, I am never diligent enough to keep things organized. Everything gets dumped on my desktop, periodically the confusion gets stashed into a folder I create on my desktop called “STUFF”, or “unsorted”, or some other variance on this theme.

The desktop has become outdated and unyielding in today’s world of 160 GB HD’s and “shoot till your fingers bleed” digital cameras.
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Digital Snowboarding

Posted on May 2, 2005 by DigiDave

Snowboarding, the ancient art of gliding over the snow on a large piece of wood, has met the 21st century. Now you can equip your snowboarding jacket with bluetooth mp3 players, headphones, even cell phones.

Rebecca Anema has taken it one step further.

She has equipped several jackets with social GPS devices, so you can keep track of your friends the whole time you are on the mountain. Let’s face it, you always want to go to snowboarding with your friends, but it’s inevitable that you all end up separated. I know I get left behind because I straight suck at snowboarding. But this way my friends can ditch me guilt free, cause they will know where I am the whole time.

Spam-Jam

Posted on May 2, 2005 by DigiDave

I have a story up today at Wired on what I can only call Blogger drama. Basically one guy, Nick Lewis, is accusing CNN of conducting a viral marketing attack on all spam posts about CNN, to make sure criticism of the network doesn’t get ranked high on Google searches. Quite a claim indeed.

It’s tough to report on blogger drama, because you can’t give too much credence to claims made my individuals with no real evidence, especially when the claim is against one of the oldest and trusted news networks in the nation.

But what I think this story goes to show is that everyone really does have a voice. You can blog your accusations and if there is enough speculation to raise an eyebrow, you’ll get instant notification.