unstructured structure.

Rainy morning walk with dogs and @molmckay (at Potomac Overlook...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:18:10 -0400

Rainy morning walk with dogs and @molmckay (at Potomac Overlook Regional Park)

tbridge: parislemon: shortformblog: expressafterdeadline: Met...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:25:10 -0400

parislemon:

shortformblog:

expressafterdeadline:

Metro, re-imagined as a Super Mario landscape. Twenty points to anyone sending us pictures of themselves doing Super Mario cosplay on the Metro.

Automatic Mario reblog for the DC folks.

I bet it runs better than MUNI in San Francisco.

Not so much, no.

Awesome.

Dandy’s.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:03:21 -0400

Dandy’s.

Breakfast tacos and sunshine. (at District Taco)

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:32:00 -0500

Breakfast tacos and sunshine. (at District Taco)

on Flickr.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:39:56 -0500

on Flickr.

Laura Tsaggaris (at The Hamilton)

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:56:13 -0500

Laura Tsaggaris (at The Hamilton)

Sunrise on the Potomac. on Flickr.

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:57:14 -0500

Sunrise on the Potomac. on Flickr.

#selfie (at Central Michel Richard)

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:31:25 -0500

#selfie (at Central Michel Richard)

Donaldson Run #sunrays

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:14:06 -0500

Donaldson Run #sunrays

Not my first tweet, but an early one.

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:20:00 -0500

wondering if AP alerts would work on twitter
— Joe Webster (@jweb) July 1, 2008

Retail's Big Show curated on Storify

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:04:00 -0500

Retail's Big Show curated on Storify:

Following or attending Retail’s Big Show? Then you should check out social content stream being curated on Storify.

#fog (at Potomac Overlook Regional Park)

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:10:59 -0500

#fog (at Potomac Overlook Regional Park)

archiemcphee: How many times have you thrown something at your...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:38:34 -0500

archiemcphee:

How many times have you thrown something at your waste basket only to miss completely or have your bit of trash rebound off the rim? What if your waste basket was smart and could meet your trash halfway? What if it could see and catch your garbage?

That would be, in a word, awesome.

In this video someone tosses a blue ball halfway between their book shelf and their waste basket. By the time the ball gets there the waste basket will have moved into position to catch the ball perfectly.

“Apparently it’ll do the same for just about anything you throw. We’re unable to read the captions but it looks like this may have been made as part of a commercial which is shown in the first few seconds of the video after the break. From there we see the development of a locomotive mechanism which will fit into the bottom of the bin. It start as a single swivel wheel, but gets more complicated quite quickly. Once the low-profile three-wheeler is milled and assembled it’s time to start writing the code to translate input from a Kinect 3D camera and extrapolate the position for catching the trash. The final result seems to do this perfectly.”

[via Hack a Day]

First of AP's sponsored CES tweets.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:54:34 -0500

SPONSORED TWEET: Stay up to date on what’s trending live from CES 2013 at bit.ly/V4uqA0 #SamsungCES
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 7, 2013

corybe: A mobile approach to news in New Orleans: I watched the...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:42:02 -0500

corybe:

A mobile approach to news in New Orleans: I watched the “60 Minutes” profile on the Times-Picayune, the New Orleans paper that recently cut staff and reduced its old-tree edition to three days a week. The story focused on the cutbacks and the complaints, all but avoiding any meaningful discussion about the paper’s digital products or even a single mention of the other fine news organizations in town.

I’ve grown weary of reports like these, which fail to introduce new ideas and merely point the finger back at a dying model. (It was even more apparent when the next segment on “60 Minutes” profiled Ideo, an idea consultancy.) But I thought of an idea, so I thought I’d share:

One of the key points was New Orleans is one of the nation’s least-wired cities, and without a daily paper, this population is not being served. While many have focused on subsidizing broadband access to the city’s poor — unsuccessfully in most cases — I would love to see similar efforts to subsidize smartphone access. This is where news consumption is shifting, and why limit news access within just the home itself?

Imagine, for example, a commercially-sponsored effort (i.e. Pepsi and Verizon) to offer deeply-discounted rates and free, older-model Android smartphones to low income New Orleans residents. These phones would have the Nola.com (Times-Picayune) and WWL’s apps pre-installed. In return, both news organizations offer free advertising space for both sponsors to promote the program. Simultaneously, both Nola.com and WWL could apply for grant money to improve their mobile experience, being careful to sustain these older Android editions.

This is just an idea, and I’m not an expert on New Orleans’ digital divide. But looking at it through a mobile lens — instead of a print or broadband issue — may open up some new opportunities.

Great vintage sales motivators from the 20's.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:00:17 -0500

Great vintage sales motivators from the 20's.

archiemcphee: One of our favorite comedians, Maria Bamford, is...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:29:00 -0500

archiemcphee:

One of our favorite comedians, Maria Bamford, is selling a couple of t-shirts with quotes from her standup special, The Special Special Special. She recorded her special (special special) in her living room with just her parents and pugas the audience. This particular quote about the power of celebrity, paired with an illustration from Priscilla Wilson, is especially awesomely weird.

Get your own shirt here

Bird feeder. #slr

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:46:03 -0500

Bird feeder. #slr

Party at inbox zero.

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:55:46 -0500

Party at inbox zero.

My sister gets a White Christmas. (at Laytonsville, Maryland)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:21:44 -0500

My sister gets a White Christmas. (at Laytonsville, Maryland)