Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Difference Between Bill Gates and a Chimp

by Mike Levin on February 16, 2010

A fasinating concept to me is the blurred line between a chimpanzee and Bill Gates. With every passing year, it seems a new definition falls regarding what it means to be human. Perhaps the most famous is Jane Goodall’s observation of tool-making in stripping sticks to dig out termites. More recently, the belief that symbolic [...]

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Is FriendFeed for Facebbook and Twitter Necessary?

by Mike Levin on February 16, 2010

Okay, it’s time to think through the whole social media piece. I’ve settled on Twitter as the top of the inverted status update pyramid. Everything trickles up to Twitter–Facebook status updates, Google Reader shared news stories, micro-blogging and photo-blogging from Tumblr, etc. Why not make the Facebook feed the top of the pyramid? It’s too [...]

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Use Your Inside Writing Voice

by Mike Levin on February 16, 2010

It’s snowing outside today (again) here in New York, and because of President’s Day, is going to be a short week. Maybe because of that little slice of spare time, I’m thinking a lot about blogging again. Right now, I’m typing away in VIM at work into an SSH terminal to my home-server. I’m thinking [...]

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