Changelog

So, I’m taking a break from this blog and am enjoying some time with something more… WYSIWYG.

jacksonfox.vox.com

Juice is better when it is fizzy.

Examples:

• IZZE
• The Switch

Here’s the rundown:

• Bagel egg sandwich for breakfast from one of the 45 delis within sight of the hotel
• More conference!
• Met someone who knew about Lulu!
• Walked over to Central Park
• Taxi to the airport
• Went home

Very late, will be brief:

• Attended conference, not bad…
• Bad ass dinner at Mesa Grill
• Late-night snack with Robert Scoble
• Later-night chat with Scoble, Danny Sullivan from SEW and Matt Cutts of Google

Things seen:

• Times Square
• Pastrami sandwich
• Cheesecake
• Rockefeller Center (briefly)
• 5th Avenue (parts)
• New york Public Library (in passing)

So, I’m in NYC for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and we (myself and co-workers) took the oppurtunity afforded us by our early flight to do some touristy stuff. The first thing we did was hit the MOMA (it was only two blocks from our hotel) to see all the famous pretty pictures. Afterwards we braved the subway and went up to the top of the Empire State Building (where it was bone-chillingly cold). Now frozen solid, we went back to hotel to get some ideas for dinner. On the recommendation of the concierge at our hotel, we had a fantastic dinner at Thalia.

I’m posting photos of the trip on Flickr (I left the camera at home, so I’m using my phone).

Since Anton had to attend a public health lecture, I took over as group notetaker. Josh Staiger, myself, Roy Kim, Steve Cory and Brian Russell got together and talked about

• tagging (Roy wondered if you could add heirarchy to tags)
• Google (and the programming languages they use)
• Google pages (which no one had tried yet)
• StikiPad
• photo galleries (Steve just put his recent cruise photos online along with a travelogue)
• the Firebug plugin for Firefox
• using Yahoo and Wikipedia to learn about medication
• Brian’s quest to regain control of his data
• and more!

Love in the time of TiVo:

Mitch, a 23-year-old tech consultant whose favorites were “Lost,” “West Wing” and “Natalie Portman,” was desperately silly to find at least one of the women on his list by the end of the night. After winning a free TiVo box and lifetime service in a raffle, he yelled into the mike, “Is anyone Alison, Stephanie or Samantha?”

Holy crap, you can get the first part of Battlestar Galactica season 2 on DVD already?! Didn’t they show these episodes like two months ago? I can now watch BSG on Sci-Fi, then download the episode on iTunes, and then buy the DVD on Amazon within weeks of each other. Oh, I do so love technology.

I have too many accounts. I can’t keep track of them anymore. I sign-up and try virtually every online service I find. Particularly weblogs, email offerings and feed readers. Is there a self-help group for people who have 15 email addresses?

A sampling:

• MySpace
• Facebook
• LiveJournal
• WordPress.com
• Tabulas
• TypePad
• GMail, Google Talk
• MyRealBox
• Hotmail, MSN IM
• Yahoo! Mail, IM, etc
• AOL IM, AIM Mail
• And more!

Update: In the past two days I have signed up for (1) a todo list application (2) a hosted wiki (3) an emusic trial (4) another todo list application.

A Survey of Electronic Note-Taking Behavior in Information and Library Science Student :

A survey of graduate students in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was conducted to evaluate the adoption of digital technology for note-taking in classrooms. Previous work has demonstrated that note-taking is an effective tool for information processing. Furthermore, digital tools could increase the utility of notes by allowing students to better organize information, retrieve information, and integrate external information sources. Results of the survey indicate that while students recognize digital notes as possessing positive attributes, adoption of digital note-taking is hampered by immature software and hardware tools.

Not exactly a work of stunning insight, but it’s done! I will say it’s a topic I would like to continue investigating if I go back for my PhD.

Well what do you know, my friend (and former roommate) Bill Woessner has just started a blog called Out of the Box Politics. His first post is on a topic near and dear to my heart — taxes.