Tag: internet

ChatRoulette, from my perspective – apophenia
danah boyd on ChatRoulette as a way to bring the weird back to the internet.
March 2, 2010
Your most vivid fears… – Seth’s Blog
Seth Godin on the difference between in-your face and importance.
February 21, 2010
Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network – Official Google Blog
Google wants to be an ISP.
February 11, 2010
Warner retreats from free music streaming – BBC News
Record label does something stupid.
February 11, 2010
Ars Technica On IP Addresses
IPV4 addresses will run out in less than 4 years.
January 3, 2010
Modern Thoughts On Open Source
Open source is infrastructure for the modern internet and thus really modern computing.
January 2, 2010
Firefox vs. Chrome
PC World yesterday ran a piece on Chrome and Firefox, comparing the two and essentially Firefox was dead and Chrome was going to win the latest browser battle. Run Chrome and Firefox side-by-side, and Firefox is embarrassingly slow. It’s not even in the same league. It’s an old man on the running track trying to […]
March 21, 2009
100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google
Knol is a ridiculous scheme by Google to create a Wikipedia onto it’s own, except one that’s worse. Knol takes the idea that there is actually a single person out there who is an expert on a field and uses them to write an article on it, and through everybody else going, “Hey, great Knol” […]
February 8, 2009
The Case for Web Applications
Recently Neil McAllister wrote a column for InfoWorld making his case against web applications. I want to make my own case for web applications, pretty convenient since that’s what I want to do as a full time job. It’s client-server all over again Scaling small server farms to meet demand can be a real challenge […]
February 1, 2009
Freedom of Speech Means Freedom to Say Anything
Freedom of speech, means the freedom to say anything irregardless of it being stupid or mean. Now granted you do have to have reasonable limits of freedom of speech in order for society to operate, the standard screaming fire in a crowded building clause. But freedom of speech means just that, you can’t operate in […]
July 26, 2008