Gordon's Notes

Six years ago I wrote about browsing the blog blacklist and the need to resurface content from old blog postings . Today, even in the suppos...

I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...

Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...

I joined App.net  ($5/month or $36/year) about five months ago . Although it's fundamentally a messaging infrastructure it's curren...

Once every few days to weeks I write a short essay, from a few paragraphs to a few "pages" (remember the page?).  Every few minute...

The geeks of my tribe share two obsessions. We are obsessed with managing and extending our knowledge. We are obsessed with communicatio...

Reconciliation for May 2011 ... Elderly Drivers Fail a Test (NYT) and Some Older Workers, Pressured to Quit, Fight Back (NYT): Why raising...

I get emails when a reader (infrequently) comments. The author deleted this comment, so I'll keep it anonymous ... Say, is it not odd ...

Buzz has been a great disappointment . It's not all bad though. Google built a lot of Buzz on the Google Reader Shared Item experiments,...

A typically erudite post on great software by James Fallows linked to my old page on GrandView, MORE and other lost software gems . James r...

I’ve interacted with three social network systems. Two get a lot of media attention, but the most interesting one is currently invisible. He...

I had a relatively decent physics education for a non-major, but I'm pretty sure it didn't include discussions of the Lagrangian and...

I have knacks, but not for language. I still remember a bit of the old country however. Which is why it's neat to try to read a blog p...

Despite my IOT habit , I've only today rediscovered iTunes U in iTunes 9... This still brings tears to my eyes. As I (incorrectly - B...

Microsoft may yet fall to the ghost of Netscape Constellation . That would be a good thing if Microsoft is merely shattered, and returns as ...

Last July I wrote that I really wanted Blogger to support backlinks . Well, Blogger still hasn't done anything. Meanwhile, I'm seein...

This is a strange loop story. It began unremarkably. I was finding my own blog posts when I searched on various topics. I felt a bit chuf...

Among Jon Udell*'s Interviews with Innovators is this one with Evernote's Phil Lubin ... ... Phil Libin was the CEO of CoreStreet ...

[Firefox 3 and Blogger are wreaking havoc on my posts , so I'm now using Safari 3 and Blogger-In-Draft. The original version of this pos...

I demand an investigation. I demand an inquiry. I want to know why the %$!$ I've never heard of the Mundaneum Project ... The Mundaneum ...