Category Archives: Metaphor

Freedom and Google

By Shana | Published: January 15, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Normally I avoid the subject of freedom at all costs. But the Google/China standoff has made it really important to say something, because I’m watching this in more bated breath than Haiti. Most people, upon meeting me, don’t realize that I burn with certain questions, one of them being “What does it mean to be [...]
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Critiques In Tech

By Shana | Published: October 10, 2009
Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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Two Disparate Veiws of Tech

By Shana | Published: September 22, 2009
Two Stories.  I’ve been thinking about them a lot because I recently finished “In The Beginning was the Command Line.” (Which is slightly more apropos for two weeks from now, but never-mind.) (The 2004 response from Slashdot, also great.) I highly recommend the essay, which can be gotten from Neal Stephenson’s website, here.  It is a [...]
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The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

By Shana | Published: August 4, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a matter of [...]
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The Internet is the New Computer

By Shana | Published: July 10, 2009
Most denizens of the Internet often fail to realize that, compared to the many machines we run the Internet on, the Internet is very young.  To give a fair analogy- the Internet in human age could be the child or the grandchild of the first computer, the Zuse Z3, made in 1941.  The Internet, in [...]
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Machine/Human/Beauty- A series on interfaces, art, design, and humanity

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2009
Image via Wikipedia As an art student with a great interest in the human figure, I’ve recently come to recognize that there might be people who have not dwelled on what makes for compelling software and hardware objects. As both a beginner to the coding side of life, but at least an intermediate student in the theories [...]
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Great Art is Stealing

By Shana | Published: July 6, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Why is it that the most successful work out there seem to be refinements of what already is? It seems mysteriously difficult to come up with something unique. Defining ones uniqueness in a market of competitors is among the most difficult tasks placed on anyone who is an entrepreneur.  It doesn’t matter what kind of [...]
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