I'll get to it

...one of these days, at any minute now, just as soon as I...

Yes, procrastination is a drag on productivity. But might it be more than that?
After some days I got around to reading this New Yorker piece on the subject (the irony is certainly not lost on me), based again on a book

Why do we put things off?
Is it just because we don't want to do them? Or because it gives a feeling of power to control and postpone?
Is it bad to keep things nagging at you, or good to enjoy your selected option all the more since it is "forbidden time"?
Let me get back to you on that... Tomorrow, or maybe next week - by New Year at the latest.

- ...and the sun Is sorely missed, as it has just turned around from the darkest and coldest nights of the year...

Once upon a time a new technology cut the price of books by 90%, flooded the market with many times as many as before crowding out the real classics, and supposedly cut into the quality and care given each book.

Ebooks?

No, still just the Gutenberg and moveable type innovation.

The literate classes experienced exactly the kind of overload we feel today — suddenly, there were far more books than any single person could master, and no end in sight. Scholars, at first delighted with the new access to information, began to despair. “Is there anywhere on earth exempt from these swarms of new books?” asked Erasmus, the great humanist of the early 16th century.

[Boston globe]

And yet we still read. In fact most people can read in the Western world, even if they chose not to buy prose books all the time.
So the market is "flooded" with readable content;

296 newspapers in 2003. These account for a combined circulation of more than 3 million.

Wikip

Would the world suffer if there were fewer printed options?
Is online and digital a viable substitute? For news? prose? Poetry? Facts?

Apparently it might look like the politicians here in Norway will have to make some educated guesses along those lines - the main ruling party (labour, social democrat) is more or less pushing for sales tax to be applied to electronic books (but not printed) and the discussion is on for the future of media support (currently newspapers get no sales tax added, magazines do get the full 24%) in general and for digital in particular.

Fun times ahead. Might just need to look into an US or online based payment solution for my Kindle needs.

Paint me a picture, sing me a song

Amongst other things the evening has been given partially over to reading up on some blogs, and a great post from Mitch at Six Pixels sparked of some ideas of my own;


When The Definitions Are Wrong

One of the biggest disruptions you may have noticed since the pervasiveness of Social Media is our definition of things

So what is a blog?

For me it is mostly a personal journal, that is available to me at anytime and any place. Yes it is public, but mostly only technically so as there are few links and prompts for readers.
It is a place to reflect, gather up links, insights and ideas. To make things clearer by putting them into writing, and to challenge myself in terms of concepts and ideas that need a bit more thought.

For a lot of people it is a way of life - the teen blogs and fashion blogs spring to mind. It is how they interact with their peers, how they define and shape themselves. It is about communication certainly, but also about building an image (or a brand?), shaping the story.

Above all it is everything it has ever been - meaning archives by date, tag or topic - a repository of collected posts, comments, links and media (images, video etc)

So what is a website?

Simply a subset of content, structured and presented at a certain time to a certain user. On a blog everything is (in principle) there for everybody, whilst a website might adapt to the user (dynamic content, personalized) and vary over time with out storing the older versions.


Just those two words give so much meaning and so many expectations when we navigate the web. Will the page be there tomorrow? Will it look the same, and will it give us the same information?

I took some time put to watch a video on MTV - in and of itself a rare occurrence these days, as the music videos have almost all moved to the sub-channels that are premium paid - namely Runaway by Kayne West (YouTube).
No doubt a video that stretches the definition and scope of music video, more like a mini movie or the visual equivalent of a concept album. Yet it was still clearly a music video. The visuals tied into and built around the music. The story was there but served mostly to lift the different segments (verses?) into their own setting.

Would it have been better at five minutes?

Maybe, but sometimes to change and evolve things we need to push it beyond the natural limits, cross into a different but related realm in order to get a new frame of reference. Disruption and discomfort breeds innovation and change. You don't change by looking closer at yourself, but by looking at other things, other fields, other industries, other people or cultures.


Or like a short but thoughtful post put it (talking about people first, then companies):

Brand-driven businesses are of necessity mired in the competitive trap of trying to be somebody. To be the biggest, loudest, bestest somebody on the block. Innovation-driven businesses are trying to do something: they win by making better, doing better and being better.

(unfinished business)

So if you are trying to BE a blog - how is that working out? And just what is a blog - for YOU?

- ...and the sun is so far away, and sorely missed - ten below for weeks now...

Storytelling, what is it really?

Interactive book
Doesnt work out so well, according to N.carr's post, inning off another 'story' on interactive storytelling.

"As soon as the reader begins to fiddle with the narrative - to take an authorial role - the spell of the story is broken"

But isn't that what immersive games are all about? And they are certainly "designed by comittee", yet the time apent with games for youths would seem to surpass the lovely old linearly novel.
So, it is possible to do way more in terms of story and involvement, butmere word are not really enough to "keep the spell" - it takes a full experience, and even then it is hard to do (but then again so is writing a really great novel as opposed to just airplane fare...!

Another angle I miss in the post is the bardic / fairytale angle, when an oral story was told and retold countless times and over a length of time - with the Teller adjusting to fit the audience reaction and sentiments.

- ...and the sun gives scant comfort, with solid ice and show on the grpund and 8-10 below, 'tis winter time again...

Navigate to your level, or beyond?

Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart - post by Seth Godin

The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition;
1. Novice
2. Advanced beginner
3. Competent
4. Proficient
5. Expert

Made me think about navigation models for web and tablets, do we give the different types of users the means to explore to their level of comfort? Are we aware of the differences, or simply settle for a common ground based on an assumed average user?
Can we offer several paths, while still giving the edited overview?
Are rss and other auto feeds one step? and social sharing or filtering on facebook or twitter another path, partially outside our "control" as such?

-...and the sun hid away behind nightshowers ...

Because we can

Cost reduction for high-end markets:

People who can afford to pay for service often choose to pay for service.

Another Seth G. golden nugget - there are a lot of markets where products don't cost anything proportional to their cost - call it branding or fashion, sometimes there is just a little bit extra there that makes it a comfort purchase more than anything else. So don't squander that on making "yet another" product. Make something special.

Books? Who needs them...

The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things? (boston.com via Nieman Lab)

Great read on the history of print and publishing, and how it evoloved - lots of interesing similariteis to the cahnge towards digital now; business leading the way with internal documents, lots and lots of classics reprinted / repurposed, and slim odds for authors expecting to make it big.

And one more thought from this weekend, as I've picked up a couple of magazine for the iPad - at 20-30 NOK ($ 3-5) the digital version is going for ~20% of the retail price here in Norway. And pretty close to the coverprice for a daily newspaper (at least weekend editions)

What does that imply short to medium term for those selling magazines at retail in Norway? 

And for those translating and re-issuing localized versions? Suddenly there is a very direct and very cheap competitor right there. Would you rather have the latest fashion trends the same day as 'everyone' worldwide, or at best a week or three later when the print editon is in the store - or the local version is out?

Learning? No so fast

Picked up a NYT piece a while ago from a tweet by Tim O'Reilly;

Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits, By Benedict Carey from September 6, 2010

Summed up; a disconnect between science findings and popular opinions (no! say it ain't so....)
But there is more; it is better to vary - both in terms of content/subject and place of study. And repeat.

Seems to match up pretty good with the way my own studies were set up - doing four or five different courses at a time, each with a mix of lecture, assignments and projects - spanning roughly four months and then a month of deep diving before final exams. Preparing for the exams by doing the previous exams - thereby mixing up the types of tasks and focus.

But still a nice read and good to know now that junior is in kindergarten, looking ahead to "learning games" and other boost to give him a solid foundation

- ...and the sun hasn't been out in view over the weekend, fall is here and the storms are making themselves known...

Never the twain shall meet?

After jumping past some other stories and book ideas I came across a good short essay on Mark Twain, but also or more importantly, on writing and self insight

There is a fascination about writing, even for my waste-basket, which is bread & meat & almost whiskey to me—& I know it is the same with all our craft

Mark Twain

Sometimes you just have to do it because it needs to be done, more than for any hope or glimmer of recognition, readership or even impact. And if that drive takes you, then at least you are taking the steps forward, honing the skills, the craft and the willingness to create more and better work over time.

Twain did, even if the The Prince and the Pauper (amz) failed miserably in terms of economics, readership and tech according to the essay


Just do it.

And then do it again
And again

Make it or code it?

Fair overview piece from the Economist, on the webversion / extension of the Intelligent Life Magazine; Whats with Steampunk

A bit shallow on the analysis compared to what I recall from the print side, haven't read lately so it could have changed...
Would have live to read a bit more on the digital vs real angle, linker up to sites like boingboing and the Make direction. Steampunk is cyberpunk brought back to something you can (imagine / visualize) being able to create yourself. While cyberpunk gives you a bit of ressonance if you program, most webusers really don't. So steampunk mixes in the tangible rather than a complex and encompassing digital realm, whilst still retaining the flair of the fantastic.

steampunk is clearly not just a look, but an embrace of a nearly mythical era of mad science and weird contraptions

The visual style and the golden age (1920'ies careless or carefree...) has been used to great effect both for movies like Sherlock Holmes (pre-steam...) and games such as Bioshock.

Is it the feeling that everything was simpler, understandable yet still outside your control?
Sure you could fit together the pieces of a diving suit, but the dark waters were still scary. But now it is close to magic, packages flying at literally the speed of light around the world with thousands of servers, switches and cables involved in the simpelst act of wathcing a video or writing a text.

...and the sun has probably set behind the grey clouds...

Learning by doing?

Along the way, kids demonstrated the very definition of creativity: alternating between divergent and convergent thinking, they arrived at original and useful ideas. And they’d unwittingly mastered Ohio’s required fifth-grade curriculum—from understanding sound waves to per-unit cost calculations to the art of persuasive writing.

 The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek piece on the downward trend in the scores on the (E. Paul) Torrance test used to measure creativity


So what is the best way for kids to stay kids - in terms of asking questions, finding (their own) answers and running with it?

Do we need school programs that use the mechanics and tools, frameworks for creativity and learning in teams? Or does the problem arise as much in the years leading up to it? Kinder garden or playtime at home - is it the "old" tv and games are bad argument with a twist? 

And if so, can we expect to see a break from the trend (since the 90-ies, downward) now with the digital world rapidly expanding both the access to information and  opportunities for expression? Are we heading into the shallows or expending our surplus of generosity? (Amazon links)




On a small aside - I find it rather annoying that Clay Shirkys book is not available on the Kindle in Europe - the Penguin site has a digital version for £20, while the US hardcover is retailing at $17 and the previous book in paperback is at $10 - guess I'll stick with the Shallows for now thank you very much

News draft

Reflections of a Newsosaur: A tale of two very different journalism start-ups:

Crovitz "late 1990s, one-year WSJ.com sub. cost $49, the incremental cost to serve a new subscriber was $8, By 2006, the price was $99 while the cost had dropped to 85 cents."

Publish2 - Karp, the venture’s CEO:
"Google and others have taken over distribution. And newspapers are at the tail end, which is the least profitable.”
“Collecting links should be a work product, Newsrooms can use and publish those links instead of throwing away that research.”

combine those two views with
"The Next Twitter or Facebook is the Open Web" a blog post from micropersuasion

"Marketers need to really embrace the fact that it's peers and their data, rather than brand, that will become the primary way we make decisions."

Reccomendations first from your friends, then from their network, then from everybody?
circles of trust, weight and degree of match (people like you thought this was a 4.1 - ref. netflix challenge - see older post)

what does that amount to for news?
journalists we trust?
editors as stars?
the return of the personal anchor?
blogs and gateways - and using a cross section to get our overall picture?

???


??

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Getting Money from Readers Who Won't Pay for Online News

"I'm sorry, but on the Web -- with 15 years of free news already in the bag -- the reality is that it's not worth much coming from most non-niche daily newspapers. So learn to sell something else to support the journalism."

Membership - because it is worth it... think crm, think overall relationship and insight, added value for members and for 'sponsors' (aka advertisers giving something more as member benefits)

Then, to finish off - head over to brogan for some thoughts on 'The Next Media Company' - nothing less... way general, way first draft (at least it was back then), but good list to get the mind moving in new directions and challenge the assumptions we currently hold.

muse

want gives inspiration?
a picture?
a song?
a sound?

the view out the window
a cup of latte
an article

curling up on the sofa with a book

or just a random flash in the back of the mind?





(initially an old draft, not sure why it never made it - but here it is - cleaning out the closets!)

Together alone - westpoint commencement speech

This little musing was triggered by reading the piece called Solitude and Leadership, which according to the page from American Scholar was initially given as a commencement speech at the army academy, Westpoint

By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn’t turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing.

(full)

The quotes are out of order, but it semmed fitting to start of with the idea that fits a sort of theme here lately, how do we match inspiration, exploration and development? What is it that triggers those great ideas at times, but leaves us staring blankly into space at others?

Sometimes the very act of getting started triggers more ideas, in a stream of consciousness kind of way, rambling along on slight tangents in the vicinity of the issue or the solution. This is actually one of the main points in Art of War (yes, finished it, will re-read in a month or so, it was that good, quick and inspirational) - the muse comes when you actually do work, not when you sit around thinking about it or complaining about all that has to be done.

We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them

(full)


And the second points brings us right into the world and ideas of Linchpin - and also one of my personal regular quotes; "life is to good in Norway, we don'thave to make tough choices". The main point being that it is adversity that shows us our true limits, that expands the horizons and makes us thinking the really new thoughts. And most of all, it is the same list for something more that makes a few of us go the extra mile, put in the effort and push forwards.

One of the most rewarding learning experiences from basic officers training was (in hindsight, then and there it really sucked) the all night patrol, in the winter, with set snow, snowshoes, a heavy Pulk to be pulled up and over a ridge. Going in there was no way I would have belived we could get it done.half way up there was no way I could see that we would make it to the top, never mind carrying on along and back down. But we did it, because when you really have to, there is so much more energy and determination driving you onwards than when you are sitting quite comfortably on the couch considering headong out for a walk. Yes we can, as someone said a short while ago.

If you never face true challenges, you go a bit soft, and if you are constantly rewarded for staying within the lines you forget how to explore. Does it mean the end of the world? Probably not, but it might mean the end of the improvements we are acustomed to, and most certainly it will mean a shift in where ideas come to life (which might over time also change the economic powerbase)

- ...and the sun wants to come out after a rainy night...

Kindled bookshelf

Seriously impressed with the latest update for the kindle.amazon page - now it offers not only a full collection of amazon books you have bought (pr added to the cart or wishlist), but also flashcards for reviewing books or quotes on a regular and decreasing schedule

This is the 1220th most highlighted book on Kindle - links to lists for comparison, taking interaction a few steps beyond just buying and rating - can just imagime the next few iterations of the reccomendation engine, "people who highlighted this also bought this, and they especially likes the third chapter on....

Now to block off some time to go over the 511 books suddenly in my collection!

Remember that book, the feeling, the ideas?

n Defense of the Memory Theater, Solid and interesting piece thanks to arts and lettere daily, in itself a great break from the normal rss streamlined focus or cluttered pages.

Books are more than just the content, they are an experience, reflecting both the writer and most importantly the reader and the corcumstances.
That is one of the things that Impersonally found quite good about iBooks, the bookshelf interface with the ability to trigger ideas and memories just from the covers. The latest kindle update (on the actual kindle) with collections goes a long way towards the same increased value of the books over time. And the online annotation site for kindle is also quite nifty - almost a hidden secret... And it also seems to be taking a fe w steps in terms of ease of use and design.

As I look over my own shelf, I see my life pass before my eyes. The memories grafted onto each volume become stirred and awakened by a glance at the spine, which presents itself to be touched, opened, and explored. Without the bookshelf’s landscape to turn to, that manifest remainder from a lifetime of reading, how would one think? What would one write?

So keep the improvements coming, and maybe i'll even get around to "digitizimg" my offline library, care of services like goodreads - might be fun to contrast and compare

iMagazine, iVideo or iPaper?

Playing around with the iPad it is fun to read and see a lot of different experiments and approaches to presenting content, both in terms of packages, user interaction models and of course payment models ranging from totally free, via ad supported to direct paid or subscription.

The Wired app was a break-out hit in its first incarnation - and judging from the Adobe promo video, there is still a ways to go within their planned scope. And while it has taken a bit of flack for being mainly an early 90-ies style interacitve cd-rom style solution it is a good read. My major gripe is the lack of clear indication of reading direction (ie is there more content down below, or should I swipe sideways to move forward - can't be to hard to add in a couple of options for this; 1. default - as now, 2. full - swipe sideways takes next page no matter what, 3. fallback - swipe down takes next if no content, sideways still skips)

Naturally as a long time reader of Wired I'm a bit biased, but the idea that magazines in general might be better suited for taking advantage of the tablet style solutions is interesting none the less. They already have a modest to long cycle with their readers. They have a lot of focus on flexible fullpage and multi page layouts. And the content generally is intended to stand on its own.

At least that seems true in terms of dedicated apps - while the "webapps" space seems ideally suited to more normal news-oriented organizations, where having direct access, instant updates and pretty much full control over both content and technology is an asset. Especially with frameworks like Sencha Touch (or iUI) taking a bit of the "grunt work", the road to an extended experience seems feasible.

- ...and the sun might break through the clouds any moment ...

Dont just do it, own it

Great post by seth a few days ago, on taking things to the next level in terms of projects

Committing to not simply managing the process, but actually owning the results, running instead of reporting from the sidelines.

There is something to be said for taking the metaphorical bull bythe horns, wrest control of something that just seems to thunder along on its own and actively shape it info a usefull outcome. And this afternoon just before leaving the office I finally git around to preparing for just that - wirting up two project overviews in terms of how I'd like to see them go - which probably means that I will in fact have to actively run them to a certain degree... But come xmas time that will probably make me more content overall

I'm "blaming" parts of this on inchpin, it is an inspirational read, and i'm now spending a bit of time with War of Art as mentioned. Just finished part two, so onwards and upwards. Seems like the summertime is a good time for reading this year, with a bit of a lower speed at work there is energy left over for reflection aswell.
- ...and the sun beta a short break as well today, showers in the afternon...

Endning the day on a meta note

Well, 2010 is set to shortly surpass 2009 in terms of posting and production... in general the first five months of 2009 had at least on post per month. Then junior came along, and during the summer I attended Bloggcamp - got a free WP suitable hosting, set that up along with a free WP install, a Tumblr and a bit more time on Twitter. So I shared content, and I wrote a bit - but a lot of it in Norwegain, some of it "just" retweeted rather than commented and expanded on, and none of it here.


Now the assorted Norwegian blogs and experiments have all lapsed and been migrated into one common, free and hosted Wordpress.com blog (really good things happening with the 3.0 version, and merging MU back into the main branch) - and the Tumblr is set a temp storage for tweets and ideas in general. Sort of an extended draft box.


That means that after basically a full year hiatus (one comic and one book initiated post not withstanding), the time has come to get 3-3-3 back up to speed.

Seven years and close to four months have passed since the initial posting [pre post titles and page per post even], one of 12 during that first month, but the total for the year petered out at 37.

Then came the "golden" years of '04 and '05 both with 100+ posts - followed by two years of 50+, before '08 just inched past 40 after a big finish (15 posts in December, lots of ideas needed to drain and sort through)

First goal for the year is at least one post per month the rest of the way - and a total above 25. 

Considering the stack of Wired mags, and the possible goldmine in the "shared" feed in Google Reader (197 and counting), it should be pretty feasible.


And the big dual shout for actually kick starting this goes to mr Seth Godin (laying the groundwork via Linchpin, my first iBooks book) and Steven Pressfield with the War of Art (just got 20 pages in, so I guess it works - hard copy, doodling and lining my way ;D)

One more for the road

Still the same issue, but the last post for now - fitting as the battery is running down, hp 2530p with Win7 - generally good battery life, but a bit worse for wear on wifi now...

And the overall topic of the issue was atoms as the new bits - how DIY is moving back out from the digital realm and into the "real" world. One company that was mentioned was SparkFun - offering a wide selection of products, like the 'get started' SparkFun Inventor's Kit along with blogs like Another Maker Faire? Don't Mind If I Do and 126 tutorials to get you going (and going and going... Duracell joke)

At times I'm both very glad and really sad that I don't live in the US, but in a country "guarded" by a $30 import barrier (ie taxes and fees above and beyond) and a lack of local alternatives as would be expected with a base population approaching 5 million (less than NYC, on par with LA) spread across a stretched out piece of land from 58' to 78' [well, technically 71' for the mainland, Svalbard is a bit further]

There are to many fun things to read, do, write, code

- even with just a few packages inbound 

Madden Madden ho

Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes was a major piece in Wired on how Madden in particullar was changing the way football (or american football in these World Cup 2010 times) is played. Because all of the players now competing grew up with second generation games consoles (PS2, xbox) and most of them probably have one or more third gen (PS3, xbox360, wii) - and the Madden franchise is so pervasive, the mindset changes - and the raw understanding of the game also changes

The same general ideas were discussed On The Media, were Bob G. interviewd the author of the piece, Chris Suellentrop in a segment called Field Guide February 05, 2010 (full transcripts online as for all OTM segments, transparency and "checkability" in effect)

I have no problem seeing the case for this, during the 99 cent sale from EA among other things I snagged the Madden iPhone app for use in 2x mode on the iPad. And it is just so increadibly immersive, escpecially for someone over here where NFL broadcasts are a rare treat - often shuffeled around on the program, and the few live matches are filled with overhead images of the stadium whenever there is a commercial or other break.

Maths is everywhere

Found Functions is a project by Nikki Graziano, that was mentioned in Wired 18.02 - where a variation of functions is superimposed on photos of nature after returning with promising snaps. The image to the left is the third on in the series right now.

Really inspirational, as there is a lot of both variation and repitition in nature, the possible avenues of development or investigation is rather large. I've got a couple of books in the library related to the crossover - currently unread is "Curves of Life" (unavailable at Amz now, whilst Elams book Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition is a great read - as it combines the academic with the everyday.

btw, the amazon search widget needs some serious speed help, no wonder there is a separate "optimize" selection in the info - @blogger

Mo'money?

Yes, I've jumped on the glorious bandwagon - a double whammy of corporate inducements joined the ride as I jumped onto a new template based design for the blog (and finally got around to getting it wider, nice touch with slider for both total and sidebar widths)

First off I added AdSense to get some first hand experience from tweaking it and adjusting the settings - not that the current or historical traffic numbers give me too much to work with...

The second thing that has been on the todo list for a while, was to try out the Amazon Affiliate integration that was being touted. As a mild Amazon Addict myself, it seems like a good fit - and also a good excuse to actually write up a few short posts on some of the books I've flown through after getting the Kindle Global Edition.

I now have the Kindle software on my Touch (used mainly for listening to podcasts and podiobooks), my personal laptop (less and less in use - see next item), the iPad (great for watching web video, playing games, twitter, mail and general news overview) and on my iPhone.

But still I read on the actual Kindle device and love it - for a lot of the same points raised by JES in his post 
"Kindle – my perfect vacation companion" - this afternoon I was outside in the sun while junior was splashing in his tiny pool and running around the terrace. So the 'book' was in the side pocket of my cargo shorts, and I could get a couple of pages at a time when he was occupied. Lightweight, stays "on" and great in bright light? Perfect summer reading.

Fun distractions

The last shall be the first, so in order to work my way back through the pile of blog ideas, notes and clippings - I thought it would be easiest to start of with the newest stuff

And one of the newest items is in fact one of the oldest - Wired Reread is a blog going through back issues of Wired, presenting ads that might not have stood the test of time; like the book ad for Windows 3.1 Bible - because faith was required. So far the total is up to 36, with more sure to come as Mr. Søndergaard keeps on browsing.

The other fun concept seems to be either gone or down. 'twas a MacBook cover made as a book - hence the BookBook. The cached page is still at Google, sans the images. They have some products listed on Amazon, but no BookBook.


Then for the gripe of the day, @blogger; apparently either the new compose editor has "forgotten" a few shortcuts (ctrl-shift-a links yes thank you) - or Google Chrome feels the need to override them. 'tis a wonderful life - bold and italics work fine though

- ...and the sun just went away for some evening showers, still summer and warm so no complaints...

Going for broke, atomic or bust

There is room for one more test, this time after updating the blogger editor (now it actually says that it cant handle compose mode...) - and using the Atomic tabbed browser as the means of multitasking across the way of the web.

VeryShortStory It never really seemed right killing perfect strangers, but having come from a small family, I'd run out of options.

- twitter ultra short stories, and even automated thsirts over at the website

Another fun source of content is the twaiku, using twitterto send haiku poems around the world

So far the fans here in atomic actually do seem a bit smoother than the dual view of duet, especially with a custom search box for instant wikipedia goodness

Sing me a sing - with Duet

Trying o a new browser for the iPad, namely Duet,
Which should allow me to use the blogger interface along with the other window for grabbing and inserting links... Or thats the plan anyways.
And it seems to work pretty well, the link above is to an article in the New Yorker, on dystopian childrens books, supposedly a new trend or at least a bit more prominent than previously.
With this app it might actually be possible to get some writing done here again, with a small boy in the house pulling out the laptop just isn't as feasible, but a few minutes on the iPad is doable.
-...and the sun shines brightly still, 'tis summertime in Norway for sure...

May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010: "

oh yes - google reader has finally made a share function - chances of a small re-vival is good to moderate.

"

-...and the sun stays in the sky, bringing thoughts of summer and lazy days...

Fictional dimension

Dimensions in Mathematics - a phantom, a chimera

Readers who will have snagged a copy of Stieg Larsson's newest thriller The Girl Who Played with Fire ... HUP blogpost de-bunking the book - a shame since it sounded like a great read. As is the Millenium Trilogy by the afore mentioned mr Larsson (Stieg not Steig as the have it), crime with a twisted backstory and a bit of tech thrown in more or less likely.


As for the more meta dimension on this blog - I've been blogging a bit in Norwegian on two different WP blogs (consolidated them last week) the last six months, as well as playing around with Tumblr and WP in general to get a feel for the systems. Also Twitter has been eating up a fair share of time - skimming tweets, reading articles and re-tweeting rather than reflecting a bit more in-depth. But today being 2-2-10 (or binary 2 ;D) it was time to get some thoughts flowing again for the new month, year and decade

...and the sun shone somewhere behind the clouds today - as the snow kept on falling...

Soundtrack; Gareth Emery podcast, epi 87 - bit of backlog there as well