CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-23 16:38:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wish I could just migrate my Google Music collection to Amazon, whose player actually works, whose apps are available on all my platforms. I have some good music essentially beached on Google's desert island. 

2013-05-22 16:56:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'd love to use Google's voice-powered search on my Acer 1410 laptop, but one of the recent Ubuntu updates has broken my microphone connection. Again.  Audacity has no problem getting microphone data, but PulseAudio is a big fail.

2013-05-16 23:28:12 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Is there a Chrome extension that disables this silly multicolumn display?

2013-05-15 22:37:33 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

No, Google, it's not "simpler." 

2013-04-21 13:47:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is happening at "old media" companies across the country: creation of autonomous digital marketing units that sell SEO, SEM, business websites and network-delivered behavioral ad targeting, independently of the "old media" sales force and often in competition with it. I think there are something like 250 digital products in the portfolio. Life in newsrooms has become a lot more complicated in the last decade with reporters shooting video and filing from the field with smartphones and continuous updating and social media and databases and so on, but that's nothing compared with the complexity of life on the sales side. This is happening at companies that are serious about adapting to the new digital realities. 

2013-04-11 16:03:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The "paywall" debate suffers from 20th-century mass-media assumptions.

2013-04-10 22:34:39 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looks like the party's over. 

2013-04-10 17:05:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

No cellphones? No problem ....

2013-04-08 14:16:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New revenue sources are creating a brighter, more complex outlook for the newspaper industry. I know our revenue folks are highly focused on local digital marketing services, which previously weren't even being counted. 

2013-04-07 19:58:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Practice rounds start tomorrow, but http://www.augusta.com/ is up and at it today. 

2013-04-06 17:03:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Great work from the Chronicle.

2013-04-04 00:31:40 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nothing to see here. These are not the dead birds you're looking for. Move along.

2013-04-03 21:19:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This gives me an idea. We could fix the deficit overnight by passing a crackpot tax. 

2013-04-01 16:59:12 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Google Translate detects rot13 as "Icelandic." For extra fun, click on "Listen" ... sounds like the prawns in District 9.

2013-03-27 14:03:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Newspapers love tradition, and Savannah loves its history, but the Savannah Morning News is focused on building a future with multiple products on multiple platforms and an array of digital marketing services. 

2013-03-23 12:36:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Everywhere else in the tech field, prices drop and quality improves over time. So why is Comcast immune to Moore's law? Are they giving all their employees big raises this year? (cough)

2013-03-21 17:06:46 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

What's the deal with https://drive.google.com/keep/? Why isn't this a Chrome extension?

2013-03-20 17:09:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Florida's other sinkhole.

2013-03-19 17:24:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's a long way from Savannah to Hollywood, not to mention Bollywood. But a company based in India is building a $90 million studio to take advantage of the creative community that has grown around the Savannah College of Art and Design and expand its footprint in the United States. A look at their film catalog suggests they're not exactly a producer of Bollywood musicals. 

2013-03-18 17:40:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hundreds of thousands of people partying all weekend ... and only 33 arrests for disorderly conduct. And 17 for public urination, but if you saw the line that I saw at the porta-potties you might forgive that one. Only one DUI. Hard to imagine. Perfect weather, too. 

2013-03-18 14:56:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Google Play" was a terrible name to begin with. This is what it leads to. Sounds like a Little Tykes play newsstand set.  Is this why Reader had to die?

2013-03-15 19:44:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

People are already mugging the camera for our #savstpats  app. http://bit.ly/W0Q75s The big test is tomorrow. We'll see if the mobile phone operators can handle the load of a couple of hundred thousand people at the parade. 

2013-03-14 16:57:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Green people from the era of black and white in Savannah. 

2013-03-13 23:06:39 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

So, is the G+ notifier broken for everybody, or just me? 

2013-03-11 23:19:17 (21 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

It's cool that Netflix is streaming HTML5 video to the Chromebook, but what about the rest of us? I've seen recent references to Netflix running on Ubuntu but nothing useful (as in "here's how to do it") ... am I going to be forced to walk across the room and turn on my Roku?

2013-02-28 15:16:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Rush hour on Liberty Street.

2013-02-28 14:46:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Renaming Augusta State to "Georgia Regents University" was controversial enough before it got caught Photoshopping insignias out of team photos.

2013-02-24 20:37:09 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Sign of spring in Savannah. 

2013-02-22 01:03:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Chromebook Pixel naysayers are missing the obvious. Google is now big enough to constitute its own market. 

2013-02-21 21:47:20 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The guy who stored a Glock magazine in an oven wasn't charged. Being a moron is still legal.

2013-02-20 21:21:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Company meeting in the Savannah Morning News Rotunda. We do have nice digs. 

2013-02-15 12:42:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Plussers!  I wanted to share with you a new webseries I launched today on demystifying wine tasting.  The premise is I take a bottle of wine that's been wrapped in a brown bag out to the man on the street and we do a wine tasting and then talk about it.  What I make them do is describe the wine in terms of their occupation.  For example a teacher may describe the taste is A+ or an F!  The first episode is with a woman who owns and runs a handmade shoe store.  See what she has to say: Brown Bag Wine Tasting: Bare Sole

2013-02-12 20:51:44 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And another one. Solo bloggers making stupid errors is one thing. A major institution is supposed to backstop its writers to keep this sort of thing from happening. 
"Correction: The original version of this article said the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden was uninsured. He lost insurance coverage after leaving the military and now purchases his own plan."

2013-02-12 18:15:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Don't do this:
"CORRECTION:  An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Sarah Palin had signed on as a contributor to the Al Jazeera America news network. The blogger cited a report on the Daily Currant Web site as the basis for that information without realizing that the piece was satirical. "

2013-02-07 15:36:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Ugly as a videogame monster.

2013-02-07 00:14:44 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

These are not pretzels. http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1718,156181-241198,00.html

2013-02-05 23:42:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Guy on the radio was speculating about whether Dell will have enough cash to continue innovating after going private. I'm thinking: Continue?

2013-02-05 21:24:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

(sigh.)

2013-01-20 19:18:54 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

"What Olson's deputies found in the home was chilling: 13 guns, including semi-automatic rifles, an AK-47, a Tommy gun, assorted shotguns and handguns, including a .50-caliber Desert Eagle.

"Even more disturbing was the letter Oberender had written recently to his late mother, Mary: "I am so homicide,'' it said in broken sentences. "I think about killing all the time. The monster want out. He only been out one time and someone die.''"

2013-01-19 21:19:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Yes, boomsticks are dangerous. It's not their fault, they're drawn that way.

2013-01-13 14:19:32 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

In 14 homeless camps beneath bridges and wooded areas near downtown Savannah, they live amid trash and clutter. Some earn a few dollars as city-licensed artisans, crafting palm fronds into bracelets and crosses that they sell for donations on city streets. Some are criminals, but many are victims. http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-01-12/police-providers-fight-homeless-issues

2013-01-10 14:17:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Dog driving a car ... 

2013-01-04 15:06:12 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Dogbert explains the new journalism.

2012-12-31 16:11:36 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Article on Journalism, Software Code & Open Source by +Dan Schultz  includes excerpts from an interview with me: 

2012-12-20 15:32:44 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

This had me saying "oh, wow," and I don't say that very often. Best (and sanest) use of HTML5 in journalistic storytelling. 

2012-12-20 13:29:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is for those of you up in the North who are shivering and shoveling snow this morning: the front page of Monday's newspaper. Thought you'd appreciate it. Cheers!

2012-12-19 22:53:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"The Fire HD is more like the 1930s Ford Model A that you see in old gangster movies. It's a real car, and you can use it to smuggle whiskey from Canada."

2012-12-15 18:28:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

I think mapping is one of the great breakthrough technologies the Internet has enabled, so I grabbed ForeverMap2 this morning for my Kindle Fire. I was surprised that it quickly geolocated me (based on my cable modem's IP address).

The UI is simple, clean, uncluttered -- unlike Mapquest, which also is available for the Kindle Fire. Maps are a bit slow to download and initially render, but very fast after that -- they appear to be SVG or something similar, not blocks of bitmaps.

Routing from the condo to work was extremely fast but offered only one route (as does Mapquest).  Google and iOS maps offer three. The route it offered is close to what I drive, a bit counterintuitive, as it goes through Savannah's historic district, but actually the fastest. Mapquest wants me to drive through Thunderbolt, which gets very congested.

The map database considers tidal salt... more »

2012-12-13 18:00:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Linus turns his back on the Intel '386. That's how I got started -- a frankenbox with a 33-megahertz heart, running SLS Linux. I downloaded weeklies from Finland and recompiled my own kernel. But all that code just went up in smoke. The frankenbox went up in smoke over a decade ago.

2012-12-13 17:37:08 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I agree wholeheartedly about the value of reporting. But a pundit is supposed to be a well-informed analyst -- hardly a "useless" role, and one that Silver himself plays. Sadly, what we mostly get (expecially from cable TV) is bullshitters and political scam peddlers posing as knowledgeable experts. It's not the role that's useless, it's the performers.