Last weekend, I attended and spoke at CyborgCamp. It was a helluva thing. It’s incredibly energizing to get a bunch of smart and thoughtful people in a room together for a day to talk about the intertwinement between people and technology. Ward Cunningham was a joy to watch and see how he visualizes massive data. Lia Hollander spoke passionately about her bond with her insulin pump. And I could watch Hideshi Hamaguchi diagram on a whiteboard all day long. The biggest thanks of all go to Amber Case , Bram Pitoyo, and way more for conceiving CyborgCamp and pulling it off. When’s the next one?

My own talk surprised me. It came together frankly in the few previous days, but I like the angle. However, it led to a discussion that I really loved and had not expected: how various people use the symbols of our common punctuation to mean different things.…