Collecting quotes from the web and books that I think are profound or funny is a hobby of mine. A simple sequence of words can change the way a person thinks. I find this fascinating and I’m not alone.
This absolutely blew my mind, the most advanced symbiois between human and technology I have ever seen. The singularity is upon us.
“She seems more angry and shaken than worried by the intrusion”
Accelerando – Charles Stross
via James Simm
Book Meme:
Happened to have Accellerando in my bag but haven’t actually started reading it yet! I wonder what the intrusion is?
After experiencing FoWA for the second time, I felt it was a bitter sweet conference. The talks were not as compelling as last time around overall but there were plenty of them and a few gems in there. The real suprise for me was Ben Huh. His talk about keeping users interested in your site was fantastic and his interactive choose-your-own-presentation-ending idea was inspired.
It’s that time of year again (I can’t beleive I’ve had this blog for a year and only written 6 things, including this!). The UK’s premier web conference – The Future of Web Apps, is coming back to London in 2008. I was there last year for all the Halo and Diggnation madness! It was brilliant. This year it’s even bigger and better with heavyweight speakers including Kevin Rose, Jason Calcanis, Mark Zuckerberg (!) and even Ben Huh from I Can Haz Cheezburger!. Should be very interesting.
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Some of you may have heard of Stack Overflow, the web app Jeff Atwood over at coding horror has been working on for the past 6 months or so in collaboration with Joel Spolsky and various others. The aim of the project is provide a proper platform for programmers to exchange expert information for specific and general scenarios. If you caught the reference to expert sexchange you may understand that aforementioned godforsaken-hell-hole of a site has a similar premise.
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