I want you to watch this video from a recent Sarah Palin rally (hat tip: Marshall Kirkpatrick). It gives us “who” I’m talking about.While you could chalk up the effect of the video to clever editing, I’ve seen similar videos that..
Topics: Civil liberties, Design, Digital Identity, interaction design, OpenID, sxd, Technology, trim:key=fj_gut, Usability

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Brynn and I went poking around Alemeda this weekend and stumbled into Pauline’s Antiques, the kind of place where you can find thick-walled whiskey glasses that were once sipped from by people who wore yellow sweaters unironically. Of course, you...
Topics: Design, sociology, sxd, Technology, trim:key=fj_1940, Tumblelog, twitter

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PreludeYou take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth,...
Topics: app store, Civil liberties, Design, freedom, jolicloud, Life online, litl, nascar, Technology, the matrix, trim:key=fj_redpill

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The augmented reality view in Brightkite’s mobile app.Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding this past April.In recent months I’ve found...
Topics: brighkite, Economics, foursquare, Life online, location, Philosophy, Technology, trim:key=fj_target

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Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original.Update: These basic “tags” have been christened “slashtags” by Chris Blow. They are also now supported in Atebit’s popular Twitter client Tweetie 2 on the iPhone.Since...
Topics: hashtags, jmp:key=fj_slashtags, Life online, microsyntax, pointers, slashtags, syntax, Technology, The Web Arts, trim:key=fj_pointers, twitter

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