Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
A piece of short fiction written for "My Super First Day" coordinated by @andrhia It felt like a dream. At first, I thought it was a dream. That morning as I awoke in my bed I realized that...well, that I wasn't actually in the bed. I was above it. Floating. In the air about four … Continue reading That Morning
Friday's announcement that Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop had left the Redmond company to assume the position of president and CEO of Nokia has elicited a range of responses from industry observers -- some encouraging, others less so. Writing for BusinessWeek, Aaron Ricadela, Diana ben-Aaron, and Peter Burrows point out that Elop "brings a … Continue reading Stephen Elop’s Quest for ‘Unparalleled Customer Experiences’
Melissa Dunphy's Gonzales Cantata, a choral work based on the Senate Judiciary testimony of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was recently given a new production at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. The program also included Jeff Myers' one-act opera The Hunger Art. The event marked the debut of … Continue reading Burning Bayreuth: The Gonzales Cantata and The Hunger Art
The Fault, Dear Reader, Is Not in our Users, but in Ourselves This past week, ReadWriteWeb published a post titled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login" about Facebook's plans to use Facebook Connect to integrate users' Facebook friends with AOL Instant Messenger. This would have been little more than a minor tidbit of … Continue reading The Facebook Login Fiasco
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