I actually haven't watched more than a couple minutes of any of Lonelygirl15's videos, but I'm aware of what a sensation she has become on YouTube. What I only learned recently is that her whole story is fictional, that she's played by an actress named Jessica Rose, and that her videos are written, produced, and directed by two guys, one of whose ( Read more... )

This TechCrunch article describes how The Big 3 will adopt a new standardized protocol for tracking website changes in their search indexes. Neat idea.

This recent Alertbox article discusses the growth in the number of websites each year since the Web's founding (considered here to be 1991). Jakob Nielsen (pictured in icon with Hoa Loranger) recalls the year 1994, when the web expanded by 16 thousand percent by increasing its number of websites that year from 700 to 12,000 ( Read more... )

What makes this so-called Web 2.0 (i.e. the widespread use of collaborative, web-based tools and applications (usually available cross-platform via any web browser) to organize the world's information and to perform the world's technical computing tasks) powerful, in my opinion, is tagging. When people using the internet (and conducting research ( Read more... )

I've been researching content management platforms for powering ulisten.net, and after selecting the blogging engine WordPress, I discovered that they feature a number of web hosts that are streamlined to deal with their platform and also not very expensive. It also struck me that these hosts are advertising good deliverables for a reasonable price ( Read more... )

This term Web 2.0 (Google | Wikipedia | Technorati) gets bandied about a lot these days, and even though I've been using several Web 2.0 services for awhile (LJ, Wikipedia, Gmail et al, del.icio.us, digg, etc.), I didn't really know what the heck they were talking about until recently ( Read more... )

Ever surf through Archive.org's Way-Back Machine?

Here's their earliest copy of Microsoft's home page from 1996. And here's a description of Microsoft.com's architecture (circa 1996), which says how they have 8.7 GB of software online.

And remember Napster? The original one? Here's Napster's site circa 2000I'm having a block about other good ( Read more... )

Excellent website that writes up articles concerning media and public-interest issues of interest to the largest number of people. This article about the end of oil is a very good read. A quote:Best case: we've got about 45 years until the oil runs out. But be warned: our troubles will start when global demand exceeds readily available supplies. ( Read more... )

http://www.thebeatles.com/

It's actually a pretty good site. Pretty, anyway. And lots of good photos.

Loyola U's Master Muscle List by Region ( Read more... )