Showing posts with label This Internet Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This Internet Life. Show all posts
Sunday, July 09, 2023

I'm Now Writing Elsewhere, Come Read Me There

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To put this all in one post for the top of this page: I've moved. If you want to read my essays and link round-ups—the sort of thing I u...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

"You can't give evidence if you're stuck with concision"

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In an interview in the 1992 film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media , Noam Chomsky says in an interview: The U.S. media are...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Everything You Need To Know About Internet Comment Sections, In One Picture

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(From this article )
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Facelift

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So if you're reading this on a computer, not an iThingie or rss-gorge or what have you, you'll notice that the place just got a new ...
Monday, April 08, 2013

Given My Recent Obsessions, I Think I'm Legally Required To Quote This

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We lost the blogosphere. It was vibrant and rich and ever changing and filled with interesting design and BlogAds and PayPal and Amazon wis...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Resistance was Futile: I Have Been Assimilated

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I was following the whole !@#$% election on Twitter and got tired of having ten windows open, so I signed up: https://twitter.com/StephenFr...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

No, Click Here and Drag Instead

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Gerry is right : sometimes XKCD is better than it usual brilliance.  Today was one of those days . You have to click through to the main p...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Cool Factoid of the Day: Googling "mre uptl"

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I just saw this in this Making Light thread , and I thought it was really cool. What do you get when you Google 'mre uptl' ? (Check ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Quote of the Day: One Genius Admires Another

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Doctor Horrible is unbridled genius. -- David Simon (Link not in the original.) That, by the way, is from the comments to David Simon's...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

This Post Which Will Be 30 In the Year 2041

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Teresa Nielsen Hayden links to olduse.net: a real-time historical exhibit * , which presents "usenet, updated in real time as it was t...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Rule of Thumb

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If a google search for a book title and author's name (from a fairly full one like Stephen Jay Gould The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magi...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Quote of the Day: On the Fragmentation of the Internet

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...when people struggle to describe the state that the Internet puts them in they arrive at a remarkably familiar picture of disassociation ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Zeynep Tufekci on Wikileaks, the "Tax on DIssent" and the Internet as Privatized Public Space

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Via the same Zunguzungu link roundup I got yesterday's quote from, here is Zeynep Tufekci on the lesson of L'affaire Wikileaks : ....
Friday, October 29, 2010

Quote of the Day (Andy Warhol Never Saw *This* Coming)

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...on the internet, everyone is famous for fifteen people. -- Shaenon K. Garrity