Posts filed under “Internet”
Goliath vs Goliath.
One of those periodic David vs Goliath Internet arguments has gone viral. You know the type. An “ordinary” person is targeted by a “powerful” person, company or enterprise. They are bullied, ripped off or treated badly. The “ordinary” person writes about their side of the story on a blog. It goes viral. A crowd – [...]
The Medium
I’m following Joe Haldeman on Livejournal.You may know him as the guy who wrote “The Forever War” – one of the finest SF novels of the last century. Also, it’s one of science fiction’s many allegories for contemporary war- with the caveat that that this feels wholly real. Haldeman is a Vietnam vet, so he [...]
The Three Google Plus Features I Want Today
The Three Google Plus Features I Want Today I have a confession to make. Even though it’s becoming fashionable not to, I still like G+. I like the flexible Circles metaphor that enables me to organise content and friends. I love that these can be shared. I really like the posting tools. Simply editing and [...]
New news? The jokes on you.
New news? The jokes on you. It’s often observed that online journalism and social media are quicker than traditional forms. They report first and fastest, with eyewitness accounts tapped out in situ, visual evidence gathered by a million glass eyes. But what we don’t often take into account is that online journalism is persistent, connective [...]
When I started using the web
When I started using the web – which was when the web was born, in 1992, my usage patterns were what I would describe as “rhizomic”. It was branching and organic. Hypertextual, in short. One link would take me somewhere new – then to another somewhere new. Now I find my web use is clustered [...]
A curious thing I noticed about this article…
A curious thing I noticed about this article (aside from the fact that it misses out some really obvious tunes) is that it appears to be using YouTube videos for audio playback only. Took a look at the CSS and there’s a custom class called “youtube” that positions the embedded video object so that the [...]
The new Storify interface is looking much cleaner.
The new Storify interface is looking much cleaner. Less a Mom and Pop start-up and more like the thing-of-the-moment curation tool we all need. Still, unless I’m completely mistaken, Storify lacks user search for Storified content… You can search for Storify content when creating a story, but not when landing on the front page as [...]
3. Profit.
Made-up statistics suggest that 43% of all Internet communication is the simple recitation and repetition of catchphrases, script snippets and sketches from popular TV programmes. I’m not taking about random usage either – there are specific scenes, phrases, words and even syntactical structures that attain totemic significance. See my previous entry “Banned Phrases of 2008” [...]