Here’s something new I learned today:
Someone asked me today how TinyURL works with respect to PageRank… Like, when you add a TinyURL to a Twitter post, does TinyURL get the Google PageRank love, or does the final destination site get the Google Juice?
Turns out TinyURLs returns an HTTP code of 301 (Moved [...]

I attended the ITP Spring Show yesterday. ITP stands for Interactive Telecommunications Program, and I previously wrote about it when a friend of mine gave me a tour of their workspace (a loft in Tisch).
Here’s a few pictures from some of the more photogenic exhibits.
A number of the projects featured cellphones as remote controls, [...]

Charlie just announced that Voki is public, so I thought I’d take it for a spin. For those who have not heard of Voki, it’s a service that allows you to create talking cartoon avatars and embed them around the web.
Here is the product of my testing this morning. Our nation’s lifeguard: George W. [...]

I attended the Future of Music Policy Day down in DC on Wednesday. My brain is frazzled with webcasting royalty rates and Section 114 regulations… but one thing that really stuck with me was the discussion on net neutrality.
I self-identify as an openness junkie, so when I learned about the issues behind the net [...]

Etsy hosted a night of digital music hardware hacking. People hacked together some beautiful (and some cacophonous) instruments using both common items (computers and keyboards) and less common items (an iron w/ ironing board, black slime, rubber glove w/ tinfoil).
It’s really cool how Etsy Labs is fostering creative expression. It’s an [...]