December 25, 2007 – 12:59 am
Merry Christmas everyone! I’ve been catching up on things on my India travel blog: check out the latest.
December 11, 2007 – 4:44 pm
Nice intro to megacity life on Current. This 15 minute mini-documentary/”megapod” on life in Lagos, Nigeria, from a foreign visitor’s POV reminded me of living in Mumbai in many ways…the traffic, the masses of what I would call “subsistence entrepreneurs,” the dearth of social services and infrastructure and the various fixes that people come up [...]
December 6, 2007 – 11:29 am
Not sure what is going on here…but I can’t. look. away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-451XMsuY
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December 6, 2007 – 2:36 am
Random thought: When will Amazon make the engines that power their text statistics available for analyzing blogs? I want to know my key phrases, my SIPs and CAPs, my concordance, and my readability and complexity.
Why should Steven Johnson get all the number-crunching fun?
December 6, 2007 – 12:43 am
Congrats to Kristin Hersh, one of my long-time favorite musicians, for pioneering a new independent artist coalition, CASH Music. Who knew that in addition to being an incredibly talented singer and songwriter, she is full of smart things to say on copyright, “read-write” culture, and new business models for musicians.
CASH is an acronym — [...]
December 4, 2007 – 2:09 pm
Nokia anthropologist and UI connoisseur Jan Chipchase highlights a lightswitch in Japan that masks its own complexity with an simple cover to shield the user from all the settings.
Over here in India, though, complexity is the new simplicity.
(Photo from our apartment.)
December 4, 2007 – 1:26 am
We finally saw the Bollywood mega-hit that came out during Diwali: Om Shanti Om. I have to say - the big Bollywood blockbusters go over with me much better than the Hollywood ones.
Here’s the first track from the Om Shanti Om soundtrack:
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