Chris Anderson
Editor, Geek Dad
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Wired EIC, Long Tail, FREE, DIY Drones, 3D Robotics, GeekDad, etc. (five kids in there, too)
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Check out the shiny new @adafruit iOS Maker app. Must-have addition to your electronics workbench. http://t.co/ACuTNKpy
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Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that my year-old Nexus S has Android 4.0 and my brand new Galaxy S II only has Android 2.3
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Got first great @makerbot print of largish object EVER. Thanks to @makerblock for house call that cracked the code.
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If you're having trouble with @zeo Mobile keeping a connection, try this firmware update. Worked for me: http://t.co/TgAJ43MF
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Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island crew (proud Berkeley High grads) give $250k to Berkeley schools. http://t.co/yfU1pLuO
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Wanting to try Robot Operating System but scared of the Linux install? This DVD turns it into a one-click deal: http://t.co/Nf373gfU
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THIS is what 3D printing is for! Fairytale Castle and Moonbase printable playsets from @makerbot : http://t.co/DUm71yyX, http://t.co/MjYhx87u
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The New Yorker feature on YouTube is music to my ears: rise of the niche, abundance v scarcity, atoms v bits: http://t.co/KCxeA3cC
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Why broadcast TV didn't die, to my surprise. (social media is the new water cooler): https://t.co/Fmh5H9aV
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One fave example from Chip Conley's brilliant new book "Emotional Equations": Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness. http://t.co/D2xLfOl9
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New @makerbot , bigger and with yet another printing head (MK8). I still haven't finished upgrading my MK6 with my MK7!
http://t.co/8yaE62Vz
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New and improved Thingiverse now includes way to show derivative designs. A good step towards a proper repository. http://t.co/Ovy8S9Oo
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My daughter wanted a jewelry tree but didn't want to buy one. So she found a cool design to laser-cut. http://t.co/jNnejqGy
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After hours of frustrating @makerbot tuning to avoid gloopy blobs, I find out that w/ feedrate higher #s =LESS plastic! http://t.co/61oK5oAk
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Some 2011 stats from my drone sideline: 3D Robotics sales were up 3x, DIY Drones traffic up 54%. UAVs are hot.
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Welcome Wired Taiwan, launching this month! Joins UK, Italy, Japan, Germany. And Wired US is 12mo from its 20th anniversary!
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Another night choreographing Robert Frost poems in interpretive dance as a 4th grade aide memoire. Not pretty but it works.
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Great Amazon sales data from Foner on booming free ebook market. Most sci-fi series offer at least one free, http://t.co/C95CXjAE
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A Parable on the Semi-Powerlessness of CEOs: https://t.co/MR8BlMhQ
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Our Cowclicker story is a game. To win, click all "cow"s. If they block others, send them away to fb friends. http://t.co/3b3IfxNj
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2011 was the year Freemium dominated top mobile apps. 50% of iOS revenue; 65% of Android. http://t.co/WIgywtZ1
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Here's the Wired fave 100 songs Spotify list organized from Groove to Aggressive. http://t.co/REVt2YKK




