Tag Archives: Technology

Tagging Rancho Santa Fe With Geo-Graffiti

By Kurt | Published: February 14, 2010
Last night on Google Buzz my friend and neighbor Sam Afifi suggested that we tag our town with graffiti — high-tech virtual graffiti.  His idea was to use Buzz tags to create a peace symbol around the central village of Rancho Santa Fe, California.  I thought the idea was subtly subversive and agreed.  Below is [...]
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How To Be Remembered As A Famous Blogger in 3009

By Kurt | Published: July 19, 2009
If all of the current web survives the next thousand years, it is likely that many or most of today’s popular bloggers will also be remembered and perhaps heralded in 3009. If today’s data archives are preserved and readable in the distant future, it is also possible that some lesser known bloggers might be [...]
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The Charming Nature Of Human Writing

By Kurt | Published: July 1, 2009
I was reading comments made to items I had posted in my Facebook stream and enjoyed seeing spelling and grammatical errors in some of the comments. It is not uncommon for me to make such errors, as well. I was surprised to experience such appreciation of these mistakes since I am somewhat of [...]
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On This Day In History: Movable Type For The Masses

By Kurt | Published: June 23, 2009
On This Day In History: June 23, 1868 on 12seconds.tv With the help of two partners, Sholes, a printer-publisher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, perfected his typewriter in 1867. After receiving his patent, Sholes licensed it to Remington & Sons, the famous gunmaker. The first commercial typewriter, the Remington Model 1, hit the shelves in 1873. See Wired for [...]
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