INTERNET: THIS IS KIND OF MY CATCH ALL FOR ONLINE STUFF THAT DOESN'T BELONG ANYWHERE ELSE OR IS TOO GENERAL.
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AOL Responds to TOS Issues
A few days ago I wrote about some questionable language in the AOL Terms of Service. Well, it appears as though AOL has decided to ...
March 16, 2005 |
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Athens 2004: Stupid Hyperlink Policy
Here's another in the long list of WebPages with stupid hyperlink policies. The website for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics only allows you to link to them if you write for permission and you use the term ATHENS ...
August 11, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Awareness Online
"The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products." Sounds like the quote of some kind of cultural/technological theorist, b ...
November 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Best Community on the Web
As far as communities on the web go, I think Metafilter takes the cake. So it was with great interest that I read <a href="http://suemedha.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/conversation-with-metafilter-founder-matt-haugh ...
February 8, 2010 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Contradicting the Web and Politics
This post over at Crooked Timber about the possibility of Obama's internet crowd turning against him articulates quite nicely one of the major issues I have with people who ...
January 11, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Diverselessness
A few months ago I was having an email back and forth with Chandler from The Barbarian Group about my <a href="http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2008/10/baudrillard_economic ...
April 5, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 14 COMMENTS
Domain Name Graveyard
Last night I had burritos with Amit Gupta. One of the topics of conversation turned to domain names we'd purchased and n ...
January 31, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 11 COMMENTS
Dropping the Capital 'I' in 'internet'
Today Wired News announced an important change to its style guide: It is dropping the capital letters at the beginning of 'interne ...
August 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Exposing the Network
I was sitting outside at lunch today and I had a kind of crazy though pop into my head. Maybe there's nothing new about the internet, it's just more transparent. Now hear me out because I am working through this idea as you read it. I think ...
May 4, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Fear of Efficiency
I've been wondering for a while when it became socially acceptable to meet people from the online world in meat space. Way beyond the small likemind and <a href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/coffee_mor ...
December 5, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS
Four Thoughts
1. The idea of celebrity is changing. Steven Johnson is one of my favorite writers, the guy brilliant looks at trends and extracts the deeper implications. I've read his books and now <a href="http://www.stevenberlinjohnson ...
July 22, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Getting It
It's the idea that the content is no longer valued by where it stands, in what neighborhood it lives. What matters is what you put out there, not its location. I think that's what people have come to learn from the Internet - it doesn' ...
September 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Hyperlinkology
After reading this incredibly lengthy history of Suck.com and the chapter on "links" in Steven Johnso ...
August 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
If You Read ESPN.com, He'd Like to Know
I ran across the blog of Kareem, an ESPN.com employee. Kareem wants to know what people think about the site and specifically a ...
November 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Making Stuff Online
I've been spending a lot of time learning PHP/MySQL lately (which is part of the reason I haven't been blogging all that much). I've managed to teach myself to be somewhat proficient with the stuff fairly quickly and I thought maybe it would be fu ...
April 25, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Making Stuff on the Internet: Passing Data and Databases
This weekend I gave a talk at Interesting New York titled, "How I Learned to Make Stuff on the Internet (and You Can Too)." Even though I was a bit rushed (it was supposed to end at 6pm and I went o ...
September 15, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Metcalfe's Plateau
At this point most of us in the geek contingent have heard of Metcalfe's Law. For those that haven't, Metcalfe describes the law named after him like this: "The network effect says ...
July 6, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Opening Up
[Editor's Note: This piece is a response to my entry on "The Dangers of Exposing Yourself. ] By Rob Mitchell No longe ...
September 21, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Pet Peeve: Buy a Domain Name!
I was reading Wired this morning and I ran across a promotion between HBO Video and F.Y.E. The link to the promotion was deep within the Conde Nast site (http://www.conden ...
December 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Rating Systems and Personal Rules
Rating systems are something I find myself discussing fairly frequently. Partly because the idea shows up in a lot of projects and partly because I usually end up relating it to the rules people set for themselves within different social networks. ...
February 25, 2009 | EMAIL | PRINT | 13 COMMENTS
The Brand of Me
Blog networks are all the rage. 9rules just asked for another round of submissions and recieved 700 entries. That's a pretty big number for a geeky blog network. What makes 9rules special is who you're associate ...
May 19, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
The Danger of Exposing Yourself
You ever think about what's going to happen in 5-10 years when the internet generation starts looking for jobs? All these kids who are posting the intimate parts of their lives on Myspace and the such will be left completely exposed. Every potenti ...
September 20, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
The Many Skins of Web Data
As I've said in the past, I really love making stuff on the internet as much for the thing that's created as watching and learning from the reactions to it. This was most certainly the case with My First Tweet ...
November 26, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS
Theory Objects
You know those things you read and think are interesting, but kind of throw on the back burner? Then like two months later you find yourself yourself quoting it constantly and have to pull it out again and read it? I've had one of those moments wi ...
June 21, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Trying to Fit the Net in a Shoebox
I was listening to the radio the other morning (imagine that) and I heard a story about Current TV. I knew the name and that they were targeting 18-34 year-olds, but didn't really know much about it (except for the ...
July 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Unemployed Friday Thoughts
In my reading today I ran across a few distinct, but interesting quotes that I had to post. The first is from Joe Gillespie at Web Page Design for Designers. In his <a href="http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd1204new ...
December 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Why Curation is Better than Filtering
Don't mean to hang on the word tip for another entry, but this is something I've been thinking a lot about lately. For a while we've been talking about what all these bloggers and companies are doing online as 'filtering': They are helping ...
October 27, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS