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06 September 2006
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:57:00 GMT Let Us Not Pretend We Do Not Like the New Facebook.via Kjell Olsen1980 days agoIt is intrusive. It is voyeuristic. It is bliss.
I’m with this guy. If you know about facebook, you know that it’s kind of scary. And I swear to god, just the day before this came out I was thinking about how facebook had to be tracking all this stuff, what if 20 years down the road they started selling off people’s databases to the highest bidder or something. But now it just all goes right out there into the open, for you and everyone else to see. Brilliant. Now if it only came as RSS. (To let you in on how big a fucking deal facebook is, 2/3 of my friends have recently updated profiles (3 days), 1/8 have updated in the last 8 hours.)
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13 April 2006
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:13:12 GMT Why face-to-face still matters!via Kjell Olsen2126 days agoMan, do I hate IM. And email is great for informational exchange, but not keeping up with people. I hate talking on the phone. I’m glad to hear that we won’t stop talking to each other any time soon.
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02 December 2005
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:15:00 GMT The MySpace GenerationKjell Olsen2259 days agoPlease, dear god, don’t let my generation be dubbed thusly.
But real interesting article about how the internet works socially for kids these days.
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16 November 2005
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:52:42 GMT my facebookKjell Olsen2275 days agoEveryone in college uses facebook. I’m slowly starting to like it.
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10 November 2005
Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:24:05 GMT Wired News: Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Dievia Kjell Olsen2281 days agoJust because technology makes it possible for us to work 10 times faster than we used to doesn’t mean we should do it. The body may be able to withstand the strain—for a while—but the spirit isn’t meant to flail away uselessly on the commercial gerbil wheel.
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14 September 2005
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:48:00 GMT How to Go From Introvert to Extrovertvia Kjell Olsen2338 days agoNot that I’d really want to, but not bad tips. My favorite is consciously develop your social skills. Not that mine are all that slack, mind you, but I probably couldn’t pick anyone out of a roomful and twist them around my finger. Which I think represents a pinnacle of social ability, and might even come in handy at some point
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28 August 2005
Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:06:12 GMT BBspot - Geek Overcomes Social Anxiety By Turning Life into RPGvia Kjell Olsen2355 days agoNot a joke!
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:10:00 GMT
Facebook | Welcome to the Facebook!Kjell Olsen2355 days ago
I couldn’t have imagined how big a fucking deal facebook is with college kids – but having just uprooted, it’s oddly compelling to sift through and find your friends and acquaintances.
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23 June 2005
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:43:16 GMT Supernova '05: "Apps. for a Mobile, Connected World" (plasticbag.org)via Kjell Olsen2421 days agoMena really brought memories to the fore. She stated that she wished she had a record of everything that had happened in the first twenty-seven yearas of her life like she has since she first started weblogging. She revealed that she takes a picture of herself every day as a hook to hang her memories around – saying that she could see immediately her mood and her background and her surroundings and very quickly get a sense of what she was feeling at that precise moment, even years after the fact…
This is the kind of thing that really floats my boat – I’ve always wanted to keep a journal, but never could. I think about all the fuzzy memories I have now, things I would love to remember but just aren’t really there, and wish that there was some way for me to get back to them.
How long will it be until theres a chip behind our ears that broadcasts and records everything we see, hear, do, and think? And what intermediate technological steps will there be before we get that advanced?
Coates’ full notes from the session.
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01 May 2005
Sun, 01 May 2005 12:46:27 GMT Social GPSvia Kjell Olsen2474 days agoA map of wherever you are is laid under a map of the gps signal from you and your buddies gps enabled cellphones, allowing you to know where they are even when they’re out of sight. God this is cool.
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11 December 2004
Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:25:00 GMTThe Personal Intelligences
Launa Ellison
This was a fairly interesting book to read for me, because it was written by my teacher during a sabbatical she took while I was in her class. I’m sort of surprised I’m not mentioned more then the time or two I was, lots of my old friends are in there. Regardless, it’s really interesting to go back and read about two of the best years of my education ever from a very different perspective.
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