For some reason I've been struck lately with how strange the development of twitter seems ( Read more... )

There was an article in wired a while ago talking about the problem with content aggregators and filters on the net. Not as in censorship filters, but sites like reddit, metafilter, buzzfeed, slashdot, google reader, etc.. One of the problems people are faced with on the internet today is that there is so much content it is extremely time- ( Read more... )

Link of the day comes, like many, via kottke.org. The intriguingly named snarkmarket have put together a short book, titled "New Liberal Arts", which you can read in PDF here. Liberal arts isn't a term we use that much in the UK, but don't let that put you off. They define it, from a historical point of view, as "the studies most suited for the ( Read more... )

I got the following email a little while ago:
Hi tiredstars ( Read more... )

The front page of google is about 6,600 characters of html, plus an 8KB image. How much memory does it take to run an instance of IE rendering this page ( Read more... )

This is something I'm considering, though it may sound heretical to some. Make Wednesday a no internet day. A check of email for the evening, nothing more ( Read more... )

And I don't mean all the privacy issues that have been causing trouble recently.

Cory Doctorow expounds.He has a good point, I think. Something the internet makes easy is for people to abandon a 'place' when it gets tiresome - or the people there get tiresome. Start afresh with a choice selection of people. The only people still crazed about ( Read more... )

And we're just walking by ( Read more... )

One of the side-stories to my life is a constant succession of problems with computers. I will narrate the saga of our internets.

( cut for computer ranting )

I don't know what the balance here is between cool and kind of scary.