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New Tech Toys

By ~LS~ On November 26, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Droid, Tech Toys

I’m posting from my new Motorola Droid. It’s frustratingly wonderful. Or wonderfully frustrating. The WordPress app seems to be working well and I’m getting the hang of the keyboard. Immersion seems to be the key for me. I typically type 125-150 words per minute, not as fast as I think of course, but fast enough that I don’t get frustrated. Blogging on Droid is painfully slow. It is helping me improve my texting skills. I am a latecomer to that game. But I saw some iPhone commercials and decided to give up my granny phone and enter the new century.

What I saw in particular was an ad for an augmented reality app. You hold up your phone to a street sign and it tells you where you are (useful if you are lost in a new city), what’s around you, and how to get where you’re going. At first [...]

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Gratitude for copy machines

By ~LS~ On November 13, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Gratitudes, Technoculture, Technology

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The World 2.0

By ~LS~ On September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Technoculture

* I can’t remember the last time I heard a busy signal.

Busy signals have disappeared due to voice mail and call waiting, a phenomenon that happened somewhere in the 90s. Perhaps we could think of it as an early step in the direction of 24/7 accessibility and connection via new communication technologies. Although, looking backward, I suppose we can say the same thing for the invention of the telephone, telegraph, printing press, and writing itself. Still, the loss of the busy signal bespeaks a “jacked-in-ness” that I don’t think those older information technologies share.

* The Guiding Light has gone off the air after 72 years. I used to watch that show with my grandmother when I was ten.

Soap operas are disappearing left and right, something easily explained by a double dynamic of [...]

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Telephone Exchanges ~ NYC Nostalgia

By ~LS~ On September 12, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Chelsea, Media Ecology, New York City, Technoculture

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Migrating to a New Computer

By ~LS~ On May 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Computer

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Second Life

By ~LS~ On April 4, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Pop Culture, Technoculture

About a year and a half ago, someone told me about Second Life, the mmorpg. I got a character there and I even bought a new video card to play there. I was very psyched about joining. I spent a couple of weeks learning how to get around and building my character. But after that, there was nothing to do except go shopping or build things, and if you’re not into code, building things is kinda boring and frustrating. So I stopped going even though I have several VR friends who go there. It seemed to me that people don’t really RP there the way they do on mushes, so I just wasn’t interested. It reminded me a lot of Furrymuck. But now Second Life is really huge and I keep seeing stories about it popping up in the press. For instance, someone named “Stroker” just sold his “Amsterdam” [...]

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