I’ve always loved reading and have over the years accumulated more books than I really know what to do with–meaning that I’ve run out of bookshelf space. And yes, I have seriously considered buying an e-book device, but I’m still not sold on any of the major brands on the market today.
The [...]

A little while back I listed a few of the web 2.0 platforms I found most interesting / innovative / useful (out of the hundreds, thousands that have sprung up across the internet). Here are a few more that I’ve discovered recently.

Planet Eye: Interactive travel guide where users contribute pictures, reviews, and [...]

Since the dawn of web 2.0 (the term was coined in 2004 though the phenomenon it describes has been around for longer) there has been an explosion of internet tools aimed to facilitate information sharing and interaction among end-users. All in all, the choice is amazing.
Unfortunately, it’s not a given that in [...]

The internet is a vast, mostly unexplored jungle that’s expanding rapidly with each passing day. Users all around the world go online to send email, chat, meet other people, watch multimedia, play games, catch up on the latest news, etc. But although the internet itself is global and its content (baring censorship) is [...]

Senario: You’re walking down the streets of Tokyo without a cellphone, and you need to make a call. How do you locate one of the dying remnants of a bygone era: the public pay phone?
Well, fear no more. This website conveniently maps the location of over 17,000 pay phones in the Tokyo metropolitan [...]

Interesting websites are easy to find but harder to remember further down the road. Here are a few that I stumbled upon recently:
COLOURlovers: Describing itself as a “resource that monitors and influences color trends,” this site allows users to upload pallets “essentially combinations of colors” for other users to download. Never have to [...]

Reading back through my last few months of entries, I realized that I’ve lost touch with what’s happening locally. Maybe that’s why the Washington Post keeps sending me advertisements asking for my subscription…. But joke aside, I really haven’t been doing all that much around the WMA this fall. Somehow I intend to [...]