The Internet Hour
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As you may have figured out, my name is Matt Griswold. This is where I think aloud, tag the trappings of the interwebs, and rant about all things interesting and ridiculous. You can reach me at mgriswold[at]gmail.com
Simple, to the point and ultimately awesome -- check out the crafty behind-the-scenes as well!
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Steve Jobs - April, 2010
Some interesting science about the way we learn and retain information via this self-promoting clip from http://smart.fm, an online learning center.
Intuitively, it makes sense - "practice makes perfect" - but I have to wonder further: is intelligence an act of persistence (continually testing and re-activating 'latent memories'), or rather representative of a more shallow decline in the "forgetting curve" of Ebbinghaus' design? Alternatively, are intelligence and memory even related at all? If Einstein forgot the theory of relativity the following day, would it (or he) be any less intelligent?
