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Episode One Hundred and Eighty Nine: Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review
January 25, 2015
0.0 Station Ident 7:32pm West Coast time, on a flight down to San Francisco for the week. I've been - uncomfortably, I think - on hiatus from the newsletter...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Eight: The New Normal
December 15, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 11:25am on Tuesday 16 December, sitting in Kenny & Zuke's with something of a splitting headache, ploughing through the email that's collected...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Seven: Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now
December 10, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 4:18pm, Central Standard Time on 29 November on the way to London Heathrow, from Kansas City via Mineapolis St-Paul, leading a Code for America...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Six: Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government
November 19, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 8:42am at a Starbucks in suburbia, getting the suburbia Giant Car fixed because the magic eye that lets us see out the back of the car gets fogged...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Five: The Ritual of Dying; The Mission
November 14, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 6:46pm on a Friday night, over a week after my last episode. I think it's pretty fair to say at this point that it's become difficult to write...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Four: Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo
November 6, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 6:59pm in Las Vegas. There are at least 16 slot machines in my line of sight. A day trip this time, to see how things are going, and they're,...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Three: The Thing About Brand Advertising
November 3, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 7:50pm on a Monday night after having arrived home from Sydney yesterday. I've realised I have two habits: one is always going to a farm within 30...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty Two: The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital?
November 1, 2014
0.0 Sitrep A ground speed of 608 miles an hour. 31,000 feet or 9,448 meters high. 162 degrees, 9 minutes, 35 seconds east, 26 degrees 47 minutes 48 seconds...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty One: It's Too Hot; Monitor This
October 31, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 10:19pm in Sydney, Australia on the hottest day of the year so far, a sort of 93 degrees fahrenheit hot. And then a surprise (pop-up? flash mob?)...
Episode One Hundred and Eighty: Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds
October 30, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 9:02am, Friday 31 October in the Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia. I arrived in Sydney on Wednesday morning local time - having misplaced Tuesday...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Nine: It's The Money
October 28, 2014
0.0 Sitrep Monday October 27, 8:23pm at the Delta Sky Lounge at LAX before a 15 hour flight to Sydney for Web Directions South[1]. I'm speaking at the end of...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Eight: Who's Afraid Of Infrastructure; White Hats; Utopias; Chinese Room Mobs
October 19, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 5:27pm and perched at a table at the Code for America office. I didn't write last night, and I think I'm okay with that: I have things that I'm...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Seven: We Will Sell it To You Wholesale
October 12, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 7:07pm on a Sunday, about 10,000 feet above Oregon on the way down to San Francisco again for a few days in the office. I didn't write on Friday -...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Six: Not Missing Out
October 9, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 5:17pm after having sat through what's felt like a whole day of Google Hangouts. 1.0 Not Missing Out One way of looking at social networks: ways...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Five: Housekeeping; Private In Public; It's The Basics
October 8, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 8:20pm in a coffee house next to a Chevron in Oregon City having dropped off my father-in-law to a square dancing night to which I now know far...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Four: Depth, Not Breadth
October 7, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 8:08pm on a Tuesday night and it's still warm in Portland. There's a giant moon outside. Thinking about Alien: Isolation and Shadow of Mordor, two...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Three: Names; The Condition
October 6, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 8:29pm on a Monday night, and it's inexplicably 77 degrees fahrenheit, 24 degrees celsius nearly two hours since the sun went down. I'm writing...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy Two: Week One; Universal Basic; Karen
October 3, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 11:08pm on a Friday night and after an unplanned hiatus due to, amongst other things, illness. I have to admit: I tried starting this episode a...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy One: Empathy, Continued
September 26, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 2:15pm, at least 10,000 feet in the air, and flying blind if by "blind" I can mean "without internet connectivity". It's not like I need internet...
Episode One Hundred and Seventy: Small Pieces, Loosely Joined; The New Slang
September 25, 2014
0.0 Sitrep 4:17pm in the green room at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, watching the feed of the main stage in a place where I can listen and but also...
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