Monthly Archives September 2005

Tech Update 5

SixApart to launch blogging platform
Said to bring blogging into the mainstream, kind of like Blogger mixed with LiveJournal. Wordpress is also starting something similar. I do wonder how bringing “blogging” to the masses will help matters? Blogger sucks, as we all know, but still, how will this help? I can see a few scenarios when [...]

Tagging and complexity

in response to this
To me, tagging is about emergent behavior and complex systems. Tagging to me, and the folksonomy lexicon around it is about taxonomies born through emergent behavior rather than from top-down segmentation. Complex systems are complex because small level interactions at a micro-level have causal effects on the system as a whole. It [...]

Crucible of Innovation

The so called information age is pissing me off right now. My silly mobiles screen went insane today and I can’t Google Earth for a decent map of Kosovo. Might as well be the stone age when your technology fails you. Sometimes I really miss the age of direct communication through pen and paper instead [...]

Tech Update #4

News

On Music and the Death of the Artifact

This is in response to this post
There has been the death of the artifact of music. The sanctity of that artifact (album/song) is gone to the point where the media is inconsequential, and it is the content around the music that matters more.
It is the idea that the CONCEPT of a band, and the product [...]

about the glasses

Pre-BRG’s. Mills inspired me.
I am Ethan Kaplan, 27 years old. I am the Senior Director of Technology for Warner Bros Records, where I find cool things and help a big record company act on them. It is a fun job with loud music. I also own and operate Murmurs.com in a sort of collaboration with [...]

Watch Yourself Die (and other notable links)

Watch yourself die
-Jet Blue passengers view their onboard emergency live via inflight satellite tv.
Carnivore for Processing!
- now you can spy and play with the Carnivore library to make it better.
Earbud clips for tangle-free iPod earbuds - 10$ for a 4 pack…so spread some love.