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Tag Archives: web
I would have preferred “Infovore” to “Informavore,” but still…
An essay at Edge.org called, “The Age of the Informavore.” We’ll get to my thoughts on the essay in a minute. My first thought was, “Wow. This guy doesn’t make up new words very often.” He is German, and English … Continue reading
Our (possibly) scary future: two data points
In my RSS reader today, I came across two (seemingly) unrelated posts that ended up colliding in my mind and making me feel, well… a bit troubled about certain aspects of our glorious, technofuture. The first is a video, “What … Continue reading
Happy in Lala-land
Just signed up (a few days ago, anyway) for the service Lala. This is an online music service similar, at first glance, to Pandora, which I have now loved for years. Lala, though, may be my new best friend. Pandora … Continue reading
The cure for panic is action
Great Bruce Sterling speech/rant at Wired.com. It’s his speech from Webstock, and it puts a lot of grumpy, gnarly, interesting, scratchy, vaguely troubling ideas into a human zone. I do love me some Bruce. Go read the whole thing, but … Continue reading
“Entertainment Shopping:” Grand Theft Lotto
[Alternate sub-titles for this post were: "Social Betworking," "Stoopidity 2.0," "The Venality of Crowds," and "Nothing for Money and Your Clicks for Fee."] In line at the cafeteria this last Wednesday, I heard a couple guys I don’t know talking … Continue reading
Text every 9 minutes
According to a new Nielsen poll (as found on cnet), Americans now send more text messages than make phone calls. And 13-17 year olds send 1,742 text messages a month. Assuming an eight-hour sleep cycle, that means they’re sending a … Continue reading
Dis connection, dat connection
“Connect” is a big word. At my place of work, it ends up in our tagline: OCLC. The world’s libraries. Connected. From last Sunday around 4pm until Thursday around 3pm, we were disconnected by hurricane Ike. According to the weather … Continue reading
Zeitgoogleist
Wonderful XKCD comic today: On the other hand, “shouldn’t have eaten that” gets 14,000 hits while “should have eaten that” gets only 2,200.
Gamerspace is somewhere between the size of Granada and Croatia
By way of Terra Nova, I found the Development Informatics (DI) working paper, “Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on ‘Gold Farming’: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games.” Quick definition for y’all non-grognards: gold … Continue reading
EOM
Good post at Lifehacker about using the “Subject” line as the entirety of an email message, and ending with <EOM> to signal “End Of Message.” I do this at work when the message is, really, one sentence long or less. … Continue reading
Public then edit
I was on vacation last week. The beach in SC. Lovely, thank you, but very windy the last couple days. Good for surfers, bad for families with kids. I try to read one non-fiction book while on vacation (along with … Continue reading
Comment imbalance
I had an interesting epiphany a day or two ago, based on a couple notions: I blog more when I get comments. Which makes perfect sense, and the writing might either be in reference to a comment, or just make … Continue reading
Birtannica gets over and gets clever
I used to really like the Encyclopedia Britannica. By “used to,” I mean of course, “before Wikipedia.” It’s a fine reference work, and I never had anything against it until they, and others, started getting smarmissimus about how Wikipedia sucks … Continue reading