Archive for the 'General' Category

A World Now Without Steve Jobs

06Oct11

I entered a world in which Steve Jobs had already been born, and was 5 years old. He and I had dif­fer­ent upbring­ing, but I sus­pect that many of our cul­tural touch-points were sim­i­lar. We both first started tak­ing note of the world around us when tele­vi­sion made the leap from black and white to […]

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UXCamp Vancouver Nearly Here

02Dec09

I was going to blog ear­lier this week about the upcom­ing User Expe­ri­ence Camp Van­cou­ver, which Karen Parker and I are orga­niz­ing and hold­ing at the Van­cou­ver Film school this Sat­ur­day, but the event sold out nearly imme­di­ately, and I fear that writ­ing about it here will be frus­trat­ing to so many who can’t get […]

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Will Japan Take Off Because of Broadband Price and Speed?

28Mar09

I noticed a fas­ci­nat­ing cou­ple of graphs in an arti­cle on the blog World Pol­i­tics Review, Top 30 Coun­tries for Broad­band Inter­net Access. One of them showed Japan’s astound­ing aver­age Inter­net speed: Japan shows an impres­sive 60 megabits per sec­ond speed (I’m assum­ing this is for down­load as well as upload?) with Korea not far […]

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