Category Archives: General

How to cope with live criticism via twitter

Next time Digital Urban gives a lecture or presentation, it might be interesting to project a live feed of related tweets during the presentation.

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Facebook, your user interface is horrible

Lately I’ve noticed several of my friends’ posts on Facebook are tagged with a Twitter icon, and most of the updates I want to post are small, so I figured I’d give it a try. Searched for Twitter on FB … Continue reading

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Why does my iPhone bleep at me when I make a call?

I’ve got a few email accounts that don’t support Push. On the Settings->Mail->Fetch New Data screen, you can choose whether to fetch new data every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, Hourly, or Manually. An uncharacteristically long paragraph of text explains that … Continue reading

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Meta-tweet

Conversation between me, today, and me, circa March 2006: “Hey Frank, it’s me, Frank, but from the future — 2009! I wanted to tell you a few important things. All these Web 2.0, social networking sites, and mash-ups are going … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

We celebrated New Years last night on Rio de Janeiro time so everyone could go to bed as early as they wanted or needed. My mom (Grandi Mac to the girls) isn’t a napper, but she managed a five hour … Continue reading

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