It’s Complicated
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Introducing… TPN Visa
Do you like my new TPN Visa card? Coming soon for everyone… the first product from our TPN Cards division. Buy stuff with your TPN Visa card and get benefits like…. discounts on your favourite TPN podcasts, the ability to chat with your favourite TPN hosts online… oh and we make a couple of cents every time you use it. What do you think?
White Party
Anyone else going to the White Party in Melbourne this week? I need someone to drink with. Otherwise I’ll have to… yknow… actually talk to people I don’t know. Ugh.
Marc Orchant tribute
As many of you will know, blogger Marc Orchant died today from a cardiac infraction he suffered while working in his home office last week. Marc was one of the earliest hosts on TPN and a very early guest on G’Day World back in Feb 2005. A few weeks after that I got to hang out with him and his lovely wife Sue for a little bit at DEMO in Scottsdale Arizona. Marc and I also sat on a panel together for a video podcast wrap-up of the each day’s sessions which is the photo below. I haven’t spoken much to Marc over the last couple of years but I’ve always thought of him as a genuine gentleman and blogging pioneer. You’ll be missed mate.
L – R: Jason Calacanis, Cameron Reilly, Marc Orchant, Buzz Bruggeman, DEMO, Arizona, Feb 2005
I’m with xkcd
I still feel this way too. Like I’m living in some kind of sci-fi novel.
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Blogged with Flock
Introducing TWITTORIES.COM
Exactly 90 minutes ago I had an idea. My wife and I were putting our kids to bed and we were doing something we have done with them since they were about two years of age. One of us starts a new story by telling a few lines and then the next person picks up where they left off and so on. I thought “gee, this is like a Twitter conversation” and started to wonder what it would be like to have a bunch of folks on twitter collaborate on a short story – 140 characters at a time.
After I put the kids to bed, I quickly googled to see if anyone had already done something similar and couldn’t see anything (although even if it isn’t 100% original I don’t care, it’ll still be fun), registered the domain name TWITTORIES.com (a twittory is a twitter story), threw together a wiki using wikispaces, and exactly 90 minutes later I am launching it to the world.
The basic idea is that each twittory will last for 140 entries and each entry can be a maximum of 140 characters. Twittory #1, which I have already entitled “The Darkness Inside”, will commence as soon as we have 140 people signed up here and will conclude, no matter where the story is up to, when we have the full 140 entries. 140 x 140 is… a story with a maximum of 19600 characters.
I always knew Marshall McLuhan was onto something…