Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And […]
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Blippy: too much information
By Mark Evans Confession: I’m a social media junkie – an enthusiastic blogger, active Twitter user, reluctant member of the ever-growing Facebook empire, and YouTube watcher. I like to share my thoughts and interesting content and online services. The chances, however, of me using Blippy are zero, nil, nadda, nunca. Why anyone would give a […]
Twitter’s vicious circle
By Mark Evans An open letter to Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter: Dear Biz, I’m sure you appreciate the intense, burning interest that people have in how Twitter is going to make money. After all, you’ve got more than 50 million users, which has caused the monetization buzz to get more increasingly feverish the more popular […]
Citizen Kos
By Frank Moher You might suppose that as the editor of an online magazine, I’m glad to see the collapse of the old-school, dead-tree print guys. You might suppose wrong. I say that partly because I still write for what we used to quaintly refer to as “the papers” (ask an anthropologist near you), but […]
Newspapers: no going back
By Frank Moher We are beginning to see the outlines of the newspaper industry’s survival strategy, and it’s going to be this: since what we’ve been doing doesn’t work anymore, let’s go backwards and try something else that didn’t work. Namely, charging for online content. The signs are everywhere. When John Stackhouse succeeded Edward Greenspon […]
@H1N1
By Frank Moher By guest blogger Dave Carpenter Word of the swine flu’s global reach travels so quickly across the web, it’s enough to leave the pandemic-aspiring virus itself a little green with envy. Yet our shiny, digital message machine becomes a double-edge sword when enlisted as weaponry against the outbreak. To wit, the Twit. […]
Facing up to Facebook
Several months ago, following in the reluctant but curious footsteps of my significant other, I hopped on the Facebook bandwagon. Explained to me as “. . . a bulletin board that all your friends can leave notes on” and “. . . a yearbook and a scrapbook and a diary all crammed into one,” the […]
All me, all the time
By Dave Carpenter Consider the hour you’re in the middle of right now. Do these 3600 seconds overflow with experiences demanding an impassioned report from the nearest available rooftop? Pretty run-of-the-mill hour, yeah? And you probably don’t need another digital distraction — say one that requires you to stop doing whatever has you occupied and […]
