http://www.compositemedia.com Out of Many / Many More Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:22:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier I argued that the everyday applications that we consider to be the online world are too easy to use.  It was a complicated argument that was lacking for examples as well as a clearer explanation.  The bottom line is that the concepts of interaction are so commonplace they've become ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/02/21/make-the-internet-harder-ctd/ It has been snowing, without a pause, since last night. And I have been trying to fit my dissertation within the limits of a ‘one page only’ application just as incessantly. Well, there has been some pause on my end, namely a night’s sleep, but the endeavor feels just as unremitting. There ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/02/17/dissertation-flames/ The internet is too easy.  Sorry: too broad; let me use a scalpel on my point.  The way we design and define interaction online is too simple.  It's limiting our concept of a connected world and is preventing the kind of breakthroughs that make this medium so exciting. We are barely ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/02/11/make-the-internet-harder/ Editor: This series is written by a IT professional from India.  She transplanted herself to NYC and worked for one of the biggest media companies in the world.  Despite her success, she was lured back home by the opportunities and developments present in one of the world’s fastest growing economies.  ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/02/06/back-home-in-india/ You are learning Spanish and you want to use the web to teach you.  The New York Times broke it down for you on January 27, 2010.  The Web Way to Learn a Language by Eric Taub tells you there are free and expensive options.  There are social networks and ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/01/30/nyt-on-language-learning-websites/ This is from TED. How do I put this constructively?  I need to eat and sleep in my apartment to protect me from the rain and the cold and mosquitoes.  I need my spouse to enjoy the same comforts as me.  Collectively we have utility bills to pay and insurance premiums ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/01/28/how-to-right-this-boat/ I was looking for a specific book but my eyes wandered. Instead of picking up the book on methodology that I needed to read urgently I found myself leafing through Urdu poems. There you go again, Ms. PhD student: so easily distracted; so fickle. But the scandal does not end ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/01/08/dissertation-blues/ Winter I am tired of the way the stale air lies when my radiator rattles and pings and most especially that it is defensive about it. go aheads and hiss the air you give me is used and stiff but I breath it anyway it's not my fault I was just out there... and now I'm back in because winter ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2010/01/05/poems-are-2/ Andrew, I caught a little bit of the Chris Matthews Show on Sunday Morning.  In discussing the chances of a major health care bill passing, John Hellemann backed up Kathleen Parker's skepticism by saying (I'm paraphrasing here) that Kathleen is right; the law might not pass but it might also pass. ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2009/12/23/open-letter-andrew-sullivans-blog/ This is a language spoken by many many human beings on the planet earth that were not born and raised in Milwaukee, WI.  To be fair, I'm sure there are several such people who can contradict that generalization (I am not one of them.... yet).  It is Bengali (Bangla).  It's ... http://www.compositemedia.com/2009/12/01/lingua-what-bangla-on-the-brain/