December 2011
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“Down in the blinding light
It’s gettin cold
I’ve been worn out by...”
– Candil De La Calle, Apparat, The Devil’s Walk
November 2011
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“Whisky, properly savoured and not grossly gulped, is essentially a pensive and...”
– IVOR BROWN, Summer in Scotland
September 2011
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“I think they’re insinuating themselves between all of us, and...”
– Scripting News: September 2011
Summer 2011 in posa.
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August 2011
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May 2011
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Not Evil, Just Hungry: Will Android make it over...
A bro of mine sent over an email of the above artwork from Google I/O commenting on how scary Google is becoming in this space. Below is my response back.
I keep playing this whole thing out in mind. I’m not sure how long it will take for Android to either have complete mobile dominance or for it to all fall apart. The platform is great for geeks looking to do custom imaging and rooting,...
October 2010
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RE: Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund's blog →
A note of caution on this one, there is a lot of colour below and I appreciate your patience on my delivery. This post represents my thoughts shared privately with friends and personal mentors on what lessons can be taken away from the Wesabe story. Am excited about this reflection and so wrote my answer with some fucking chutzpah. ### This shit is about 1)insight and 2)speed. From a philosophical...
September 2010
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“By observing what you’ve recorded, you can come to a decision to modify your...”
– Cirillo, F. (2007). The Pomodoro Technique. San Francisco, California. pp 38.
I think I am putting this up here more as a reminder to myself, however the value it has offered me is worth sharing.
The above quote is from the generous Francesco Cirillo via his free e-book (hot download link in the...
August 2010
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Those Who Add Value Never Stop Designing (cc...
Download now or preview on posterous Notes.pdf (184 KB) Have been reflecting a lot lately about the value of design/designers in my life. As much as I want to write about this idea, I suspect that the image above says it all. @joshdavey drew it with his finger using Penultimate for the iPad while our University crew headed up to @andrewlarosa’s cottage...
July 2010
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Re: Engadget's Microsoft Kin Inside Story
Ken: Whatchu think?
Jaime: Fuck that Lee guy. It's sad to watch. People's egos and emotions ruining such a cool organization.
Ken: It's whack that anyone with any integrity would release a project just to fufill a contract knowing it was flawed.
Jaime: Fundamentally dude. And not actually achieving the objectives?! It's gross and unethical. The bullshit is that these guys have fiduciary responsibilities to the "shareholders" and so they justify cannibalizing innovation because it deviates from profit for shareholders.
Ken: ...
Jaime: Every big company fails or transforms into something irrelevant...
Ken: But i dont think it does the shareholders any justice in the long term--even in 4-12 months...
Jaime: It doesn't -- they're just focused on very immediate returns...
Ken: ...Using 2 years of development to release a failed product and buying a company to do so = very poor resource allocations.
Jaime: That Lee guy should be fired and/or jailed.
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Why Digital Media Sucks: Entrepreneurship vs. the...
A colleague recently linked me McMaster’s press release on the launch of Eight: The Hamilton Institute for Interactive Digital Media. The announcement was plastered all over the Unversity’s website with each partnered org offering up your typical sound bites. Mac’s President Peter George had this to say:
We want to be known as the ‘8th-art’ university, but to achieve that distinction will depend...
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“[Electronic media] have become an essential feature of modern life because they...”
– Volti, R. (1995). Society and Technological Change, 3rd Edition. Chapter 12: The Electronic Media, p. 205. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is...”
– David Starr Jordan
June 2010
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“[Technology is] the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more...”
– Bigelow, J. (1829) Harvard Lecture Series: Elements of Technology.
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“There is interpretative flexibility both in the understanding of technologies...”
– Sismondo, S. (2004) An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Chapter 8. MA: Blackwell Publishing.
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“When driving adoption and proliferation of any system in a society, in addition...”
– Sorgente, J. (2010). Reasons For Success: The American Manufacturing System, Tutorial Assignment — Scientific Technology and Society in the Twentieth Century, Ryerson University.
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“These [scientific engineering] microhistories, however, cannot overrule the...”
– Hong, Sungook (1999) ‘Historiographical layers in the relationship between science and technology’, History and Technology, 15: 4, 289 — 311
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Re: But to everyone else I would recommend... →
A quote (now linked at the top of this post) on Malcolm’s Tumblr really got me thinking and I was compelled to write a response. Here it is:
Eran Hammer-Lahav, the author from the original post, is spot on in stating that users don’t give a damn about a product’s openness. To many users, the web is simply another consumption vehicle; history has shown us that consumers are...
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Objectives, Audience and Making Events That Work...
The community is hungry (demand is way high). With social media shining a light on what’s happening there is a big opportunity to reach a large audience quickly and freely. We need to ensure everyone—both organizers and attendees—are getting what they bargained for. We also need to remember the objectives, quality [authenticity] and audience precedents.
Let’s return back to the original...
“…resilient, agile, tenacious and passionate…”
– The four most common traits of any class of entrepreneur « Steve Blank
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Objectives, Audience and Making Events That Work...
A couple months back I read an entertaining post, followed by some even better commentary. Some dude contributed to the story’s comments and one remark really stuck with me:
“… [social media is] predicated on this notion that marketing and saturation and content (gotta have content!) are more important than quality.”
No one—not the audiences that matter anyways—gives a damn about saturation,...
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“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a...”
– J.C.R. Licklider (1960), Man-Computer Symbosis
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Objectives, Audience and Making Events That Work...
A colleague recently challenged me to solve an interesting problem: how do you attract the “knowledge workers” of the Internets to a place where they can learn, share and grow with peers. I want to share some of my recent thought-crumbs; if not only to clear my head, but also raise a flag with hopes to find some more friends who are thinking about solving the same problem. Before introducing where...
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Chats on Leadership
Malcolm: I think it's bureaucracy a bit. People have all these roles, administrative assistant, marketing coordinator, and they get pushed into directions doing work that doesn't matter, then they get all obsessed with more shit that matters even less!
Jaime: Haha. Man, I don't get why it is so hard for them, like this shit—it’s simple. Create a vision; articulate it with open dialogue, get people's ideas out in the open…
Malcolm: Yup
Jaime: Use your vision as vehicle that empower/drives everyone; empower them to believe it’s their vision too; create performance metrics; and, crush it! If anyone gets in the way: fire ‘em or use the obstacle. Simple. Meanwhile, to your point, we're busy f*cking around with make-work and countless emails about pointless stuff that simply disrupts focus.
Malcolm: You need some Jason Fried/Steve Jobs leadership.
Jaime: Word.
“Both are creative processes that ultimately lead to self-discovery and greater...”
– Jamie Sorgent (@jsorgent) (via datingdesign)
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May 2010
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“Ironically, the decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as...”
– King, C.J. (October 2008). Facebook Suicide. Adbusters Media Foundation.
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“If I were to do it all over again, the only thing I would change is to be less...”
– Sorgente, J. (2010). Reflective Paper. Applied Feasibility Analysis, Bachelors of Business Technology Management, Enterprise Sys. & Org. Coop. Ryerson University.
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Ryerson DMZ: Quit Facebook Day →
It’s a lack of fair choices and best intentions that has been the reason why 12,341 have committed to leaving Facebook on May 31st.
That, according to Quit Facebook Day organizers, Joseph Dee and Matthew Milan, is what Facebook isn’t doing a good job of. The event and website are a…
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“Microsoft’s compensation moves have created a haves-vs.-have-nots culture....”
– Troubling Exits At Microsoft
March 2010
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Testing
Testing writerous to see if I can publish to my posterous using WLW. via Writerous Posted via web from jaime sorgente’s posterous | Comment »
December 2009
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Exploring and Using "Patentable" Technology
Am currently researching for my liberal course Politics: Power and Change in Technological Society where we have been assigned a research paper/case study of a specific technology. I am writing on the Patents and Power of software.
In my research I found an essay written by Paul Graham three years ago, entitled Are Software Patents Evil?. In this piece Graham proves how little power patents play...
November 2009
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SIFE Ryerson: Exec Dev Program Pitch (DRAFT 1)
October 2009
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Possible breakout session for #CIT10: BMG
New business models permeate our economy and customer experiences. Over the last decade, commercial and organizational landscapes have radically changes. As a disruptive force, novel business designs remain poorly understood. For individuals and enterprises looking to embrace new ways of creating value, Business Model Generation: The Next Wave of Innovation proposes new ways of framing your...
“The perspective of technology optimism idolizes technology as “both the engine...”
– Jeffcote, R. (2003). Technology@Utopia. Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies , 3, 4.
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