I remember spending an afternoon studiously plonking out my GC [1]. I may have even included it in an email signature at the time. Man….blast from the past. Brought to you by a light discussion at work of creating a unique identifier for every developer based on their positions in the various geek religious wars…
Editors do make a difference. The trade-off for getting all of our news instantly delivered to us by a peer-to-peer network is that we have to be our own editors. Not everyone is aware of this or willing to take on that responsibility. I think we’re where we’re at as a society because of that.
Overheard in re: a Metafilter conversation [1] about the original cross platform web browser; a line-mode application which is essentially a TTY [2] interface. Imagine that… a typewriter that types by itself like some kind of terrible player piano. You read what it’s writing while it chatters away. And then once in a while it…
This is why we can’t have nice things. I really think we need to renew our commitment to anti-trust legislation and the current presumption in favor of mergers.
I know it’s a topic I come back to now and again, but only because it is one of the most useful “technologies” to come out of my WorldWideWeb experience. The ability to essentially bookmark something of interest and then have that thing tell you when something happens to it is a remarkable way to…
So you want to get your message out to the masses. You want a soap box from which you can teach the world a thing or two about the world. You want to make a difference, foster change, foment revolution. You’ve got two birds in each hand having scoured the bushes and you’re ready to…