Twitter added a really cool feature – tracking: You can follow friends on your phone through Twitter, but what about concepts? What if you wanted an update anytime anyone mentioned your name, your favorite band, “NYC,” “earthquake,” or “Steve Jobs?” In real-time? What if you were attending an event and wanted to know who else … Continue reading Twitter tracking
It’s nice to see that pop music is not the only one getting top charts, awards, and noisy promotions: The world’s biggest classical music radio station and the world’s most influential classical music magazine have joined forces to make an already great classical music award even better Particularly, I’m glad to see that people can … Continue reading Classical music voting battle for Valery Gergiev
This post is somewhat related to my previous rant “The mess with notes“. One of the things that I lost control of are my bookmarks. At one point in time I decided that my bookmarks are the same as, or rather a part of, my notes. And I started to treat them the same way. … Continue reading Tagging thoughts
I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog that I am in search for the perfect note taking application. I’ve tried everything and anything and I’m still not satisfied. Some of the things that I tried to work with include: pen and paper, Google Notebook, knotes, TomBoy, Basket, text files, and GMail. Each of these … Continue reading The mess with notes
Back when I was in high school, Russia was going through some serious, and at times sporadic, reforms in education system. We used to have just schools, but suddenly half of them turned into gymnasiums, while another half turned into colleges. New and weird subjects were introduced, such as Latin, rhetoric and philosophy (high school, … Continue reading Cyprus universities double