I've finally put my finger on what sort of an activity tumblr most encourages, and it is a commonplace book.

One doesn't have to use it as a commonplace book. Something like Fuck Yeah Fanfic Flamingo, which is producing content original to it, is not a commonplace book. But a lot of porn tumblrs, or FuckYeah(pictures of this thing I love which I ( Read more... )

So, internets, I have not posted in a while.

Let's use a linkspam to limber up my fingers.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn, High School Curriculums, and Canon by
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Making Sense of Privacy by danah boyd (
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Buzz changes. They killed auto-follow and have an easy way to kill Buzz and your Google profile ( Read more... )

When one complains that people on the internet are collating links to multiple documents and suggesting relationships between those documents unforeseen by the original writers, or when one is dismayed that something posted to the World Wide Web can garner a world's worth of readers and commenters, I confess that I am put in mind of someone ( Read more... )

danah boyd posted a rough sketch of a talk she gave at the Web2.0 conference in November: Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.

There's lots of good thoughts about how people interface with the online world there, but the last paragraph caught my attention. She said that Monetizing Social Media ( Read more... )

Ways to check if a website is down:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Ping
Traceroute(Either ping or traceroute may be disabled for security reasons. Dreamwidth's ping is, Twitter and Livejournal's ping are active. If you think your ping problem may be that ping is incorrectly ( Read more... )

Why didn't anyone tell me that server side includes exist? All of my problems with menus … gone in a single minor line of text …

Just a whee bit of commentary.

Just a ….

*headdesk*

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Scott Rosenberg comments that Wave looks too busy since its default is a triple column formatHowever, he's got a closer screencap of wave than I could see in the video demo, and I would just note that all of the ?widget boxes? have minimize tabs, and the wave itself has a maximize tab. So, the product already has some methods for moderating your ( Read more... )