Last week, I managed to leave my iPhone in a different building across campus. Boneheaded move, I know. But it was returned to me before I even finished my next meeting (in yet a third building on campus)... before I even realized it was missing! How? I'd gone to the trouble of setting up a custom lock screen for my iPhone (and my iPad; see … [Read more...]
Immigration and the Startup Visa
June 30, 2011 by
A few weeks ago, I was at a Georgia Tech student event, the Convergence Innovation Competition. I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the student entrepreneurs. They were mostly Master's candidates in Computing or Electrical Engineering, While still at the competition, I tweeted: Of the first 28 student entrepreneurs I've met in … [Read more...]
“Everyone wants the next Silicon Valley.”
June 30, 2011 by
Bruce Guile on replicating Silicon Valley: I am certain it would be possible to create a two-hour global video montage composed entirely of short clips of political leaders, government executives, university presidents, real estate developers and even some high-tech executives standing at a podium announcing that their project would create the … [Read more...]
My Comments to Delta
June 8, 2011 by
One of the changes the world is getting used to with Twitter, YouTube, and ubiquitous cameraphones is that one person's experiences can be shared with the entire world, immediately, and unfiltered. … [Read more...]
Georgia Tech Branding Failure
January 23, 2011 by
Georgia Tech's colors are white and gold. It says so in both our fight songs (yes, we have two). Our mascot, the Rambling Wreck, is painted in white and gold. If you look on the official Communications & Marketing website, our gold is Pantone 124. We went through a few confused years when we hooked up with navy blue, but that ménage à trois was … [Read more...]
Renaming Atlanta’s Streets
January 4, 2011 by
Yesterday, the Atlanta City Council voted 9-5 to refer back to committee a proposal that would have renamed two key downtown streets as "Xernona Clayton Way" and "John C. Portman Boulevard." … [Read more...]
Favorite iPhone/iPad Apps
November 26, 2010 by
It surprises people that, as a well-assimilated Apple fanboy, I didn't buy the first generation iPhone. I was in the store on launch day, I had one in my hand, my credit card was burning a hole in my pocket... and I left without one. I used my Treo for nearly another year until the 2nd generation iPhone (confusingly named 3G) was released. I wasn't … [Read more...]
Notes on Vision
November 24, 2010 by
This is going to be a more personal post than usual. Nine months ago today, my life changed. I went in for eye surgery. A lot of people ask questions, usually with positive assumptions like "So your eye is all better now?" It's not, and I hate telling people that, so I decided to put it all here on my blog. … [Read more...]
Redistributing the Future
November 18, 2010 by
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." – William Gibson, science fiction writer Those of us who grew up on The Jetsons may feel cheated. It's the 21st century, and we don't have flying cars, or Moon vacations, or Rosie the Robot cooking our meals. … [Read more...]
Towards a Hypertext Ecology (1987)
November 15, 2010 by
While searching for something else in my boxes of decaying paper files recently, I ran across a couple of articles I wrote for publication in 1987/88. … [Read more...]
