Tag: Internet
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In which you can hear the Internet breathing heavily on a hot day
PBS hacked, new Twitter stuff, new Google stuff, new Apple stuff, constant flow of new Facebook stuff, that guy who had that other guy’s computer, a thousand horrifying tornado photo galleries, continuing viral revolutions in the Middle East, Instagram. It’s too hot for this, Internet. (I’d link, but I don’t want to break anything.)
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Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’
The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity
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WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange
Reading the New Yorker’s piece on WikiLeaks, it’s hard to decide whether I’m reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, both. Without looking too deeply, I believe in what WikiLeaks is trying to do, but I’m profoundly worried to see here, for example, Tor server traffic mined for data. That’s…
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Riders on the Storm
David Brooks on how recent Internet use research continues to dismantle Cass Sunstein’s original “Daily Me” thesis. Riders on the Storm
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Back to the Internet’s Future
Once in a while, I take a look through some of the links I’ve been saving, sharing, and publishing in the sidebar of my blog, Twitter, and a few other places, and try to scrape the pixelly cream off the top to immortalize (until the links break, anyway) a little bit of the Web, hung…
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The Internet? Bah!
Clifford Stoll’s 1995 predictions included “…no computer network will change the way government works.” The Internet? Bah!
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Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009
I continue to be fascinated by the busy intersections where the physical world and the Internet overlap. Here’s a solid roundup of products making that happen in 2009. Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009
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The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
Pew study (looks like a survey of influentials/”experts”) with some relevant findings: Future of Intarwebs = mobile, and will not save the world for you. The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
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Unscheduled downtime
“Sometimes, you eat the bar. And sometimes, the bar eats you.” And sometimes, something blows up at a data center in Houston and your cool new Web host has all its servers shut down for 36 hours while fires are quite literally put out and power is restored. I imagine things might be up and…
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Order your very own 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-62-56-88-c0 hex colour t-shirt!
Because the Internets are just way, WAY faster than you. via Information Aesthetics. Order your very own 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-62-56-88-c0 hex colour t-shirt!