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Mike Caulfield

  • Send Bloggers

    One of the absolutely consistent features of website development (at least in my neck of the woods) is that storytelling problems are miscast as technology platform problems. Here’s a typical example. I’m currently working with a department to move them to a third party vendor, and in demonstrating a sample site one of the possible… Continue reading

  • Twittergram Rock: Last Time You Were Here

    So, this was impromptu, but if twitter history is ever written I want credit for writing the first 40 second song explicitly for twittergram. http://tinyurl.com/2s8oee I’ll get better. It’s a new format for me. Continue reading

  • ISA, HASA, and the Inverted LMS

    I’ve been out of linguistics for so long that I don’t know if this is still the case, but it used to be there was a distinction in some branches of cognitive linguistics between what programmers might recognize as ISA and HASA relations. The idea is this: a giraffe “isa” animal. The zoo “hasa” giraffe.… Continue reading

  • Offline thinking

    I get a wave of nostalgia when I read a John LeCarre novel. Not for the simplicity of Cold War politics or for spy novels written with a real sense of literary style, but for the physicality of the world George Smiley inhabits. Trying to figure out a particular thorny problem, he grabs a notebook,… Continue reading

  • The Humanity of Loose Systems

    One of our graphic designers returned from Paris the other day with the most extraordinary set of photographs. Her and I had had a long talk before she went about how the concept of “brand” was overrated in visual design, frequently doing more harm than good. We both agreed our website could tolerate considerably more… Continue reading

  • Universal Grammar, meet the Black Swan

    OK, so I’ve never been that big a fan of Chomskyan grammar: I just never quite understood what one would *do* with it. Besides, sitting around dissecting sentences like “The large gray man fell on the radio stand” just paled in comparsion to analyzing how people actually talk: Oh I w’s settin’ at a table… Continue reading

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  • Twittergram #2: Can we plug Jott into this?

    OK, so it’s obviously Monday. Here’s twittergram #2: Â http://www.mikecaulfield.com/jott.mp3 I’m serious about the question — what if you took Jott and plugged it into Dave’s twittergram idea? I can imagine getting twittergrams walking down the street, and replying by sending a message to Jott. It’s interesting how this kind of relates to my post… Continue reading

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  • Twittergram

    A la Dave Winer, here’s my contribution to the experiment. tgram_caulfield.mp3Â Continue reading

  • Twitter as Identity System?

    Dave Winer just blew my mind. Which is why I still go to scripting.com. Because occasionally he does that. That, and I still haven’t figured out where to get one of those I Facebooked Your Mom T-Shirts. Continue reading

  • Michael Gorman wins Gold Medal for Irony

    The Sphere is abuzz with discussion of Michael Gorman’s rambling monologues about Web 2.0. They are two profoundly confused pieces. While Gorman’s posts will win no prizes for coherence of thought or depth of knowledge, they might just win a Gold Medal for Irony. Why? Because in an article bemoaning the death of respect for… Continue reading