Andrew Watson posted a note 5 hours ago
house to self... can blast music without any other family member waking up, complaining... music is the best
Andrew Watson posted a note 6 days ago
Book Chapter on WordPress as Mass Customization: http://wp.me/p36q6-xS
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 8 days ago
Now the Day is Really Bright
The coffee machine has broken! Or rather, on Saturday evening, after a busy day, it refused to drip water. Sunday wasn’t too bad. But Monday morning without coffee was tough… until I remember that I have backup, in the form of a French press. I’d actually prefer to grind beans and then use the French press, ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 10 days ago
Listening to Pre-Release Albums at NPR
I’m currently listening to Broken Bells, the collaboration between Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, among other projects) and James Mercer (The Shins). It’s yet to be released, but NPR has the good habit of streaming good albums pre-release. If you click on that link, you’ll be able to see what’s currently available for streaming. You’ll also ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 12 days ago
Wheaton: It’s Tigerific!
How is Wheaton terrific? Let me count the ways, stopping at three for now: It’s poised for a boom. That’s according to city planners and via the local Gazette, so it must be true. Wheaton library hosts Year of the Tiger celebrations this Saturday, March 6 (again with the Gazette-linking). It is home to a branch of DC ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 14 days ago
Google Ate My Picnik
Google acquired Picnik. Liz at GigaOm leads with the fact that this is the latest in a series of deals by which ex-Googlers have been brought back into the fold. I’ve yet to see an answer to my main question about the deal: how will this affect the relationship between Flickr and Picnik? It’s been ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 20 days ago
Google Gears and Microsoft IE6 Ride Into the Sunset
Two cowboys ride off into the sunset. The younger of the two was brought in to do a specific job for a limited time, while the older has been around for what seems like forever. I refer respectively to Google Gears and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. We’ll start with the latter, the browser that would not ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a note 20 days ago
Google Gears and Microsoft IE6 Ride Into the Sunset: http://wp.me/p36q6-xF
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 20 days ago
Barcodes Scanners and Other Playthings
I’m in Interactions in Kensington. There are these helpful labels on the toys. Xx in Silver Spring takes a different, but also helpful and probably more lucrative, approach. Parents can buy the stuff their kids have been playing with. Why can’t I use my Android, or other mobile device, to put a toy in my shopping ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 21 days ago
50 Million Tweets and Nothing On
50 millions tweets a day? It has indeed come to this, as Mashable Ben and many other sources report. The statistic reminds me, as I’m sure it reminds many others, of the Bruce Springsteen song “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On).” But of course, there are things on, on TV, and even on Twitter. It’s just that ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 22 days ago
TrustR: Amazon Ahead; FedEx Follows; Toyota Tries to Tie Tylenol
R is for Recommendation. So TrustR is a metric for Trust and Recommendation: it’s used in a study just published by Millward Brown. On a scale where the average brand scores 100, and anything over 105 is considered good, Amazon wins with 123, with FedEx just one point behind. Then there are four firms on 120. ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a note 22 days ago
TrustR: Amazon Ahead; FedEx Follows; Toyota Tries to Tie Tylenol: http://wp.me/p36q6-xA
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 24 days ago
Did the Lorax Drive a Prius?
I just read The Lorax to my son. Many of Dr. Seuss’ books remain fresh, but this one seems particularly relevant at the moment. Here’s a quote. (Which character? See last paragraph for the answer.) I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 25 days ago
WordPress.com Downtime Lowdown
This blog, like millions of others, is hosted at WordPress.com. I’ve been very happy with the service. I’m still happy with it, despite today’s downtime. I have to applaud Matt’s downtime summary. He didn’t attempt to downplay the downtime. He quantified it, to the tune of 5.5 million lost pageviews (not all of which are mine, ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 26 days ago
Snoburbia: Not Just for Winter
Here’s another map of the USA, to go with the one I posted earlier today. It adorns a t-shirt available from Snoburbia. That’s not a reference to our recent weather, but is the result of: snob + suburbia. I became aware of Snoburbia via a post on its blog, which I in turn found via JUtP. ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 26 days ago
DC as the Heart of the Nation
Washington DC as a big, red heart, pumping life-blood through the arteries of the nation’s body? The quote/link is from/to Strange Maps, a fine blog (and now a book). The map is from PublicOptionPlease, where it won a competition. Congratulations to artist Amy Martin. It makes me wonder which other locations might correspond to other parts ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 27 days ago
Music Journalism is the New Piracy
Good post title, huh? I didn’t make it up. I copied it. It’s fine for me to copy it, as long as I give proper attribution. Even if there were no such thing as fair use, it would still be fine for me to copy “Music Journalism is the New Piracy.” That’s because the Electronic Frontier ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 28 days ago
Widgets and the Web’s Amputation Ward
TechCrunch has a thing,or a place, called the Deadpool. It’s where social media companies go when they shut down. A look at TechCrunch posts tagged deadpool shows two arrivals so far this year: EventVue, and Yahoo’s Shopping API. I’d say that these two closings are rather different things. Although each sees the end of a web ... Read more
Andrew Watson posted a blog entry 28 days ago
WordPress and Google Buzz
Google Buzz is a platlication: it’s both an application and a platform on which applications can be built. It’s been a busy application, seeing millions of people and posts in its first couple of days. It’s also been a busy platform. I have a particular interest in the applications that bridge Buzz and WordPress. So ... Read more
