by Rob Cottingham | Dec 6, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
Here’s one for all you holiday shoppers out there, fresh from ReadWriteWeb. I said over there that stores have good reason to worry about customers walking in clutching their iPhones, Androids and Blackberrys: Which means customers are bringing the competition... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 3, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
Do people actually do this in bars, and not just on TV? This is the first cartoon posted on our sweet new webserver (all hail the mighty Linode!). I’m getting plenty of hand-holding on the sysadmin front, and wanted to mention: if you’re looking for... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 30, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal, Online Community
A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn’s somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. (“I vomited on their shoes at the office party” isn’t on the list, for example.) We had a back-and-forth on her blog, and I... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 26, 2009 | Cartoons, Conferences and workshops, Noise to Signal, Online Community, Technology
Probably no need to mention that this cartoon was inspired by the Web 2.0 Expo debacle involving danah boyd, a Twitter backchannel projected onto a giant screen behind her, a speech that faced an uphill battle from the get-go, and a few audience members with some... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 24, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
Is there anything more fun than drawing a rampaging robot intent on destroying civilization? (Answer: being a rampaging robot intent on destroying civilization.) Update: Alex reminds me that the idea for this one came from her recap of Jer Thorpe’s amazing... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 23, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal
This came to me while reading Dave Eave’s post about the challenges of turning the promise of crowd-sourced quality control in open-source development – the idea that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”. (It turns out the challenges are...