January 2012
31 posts
“If Google doesn’t like your name, it can block you; if Facebook doesn’t like...”
– How much should we trust our new information overlords? — Tech News and Analysis
“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”
– Pushkin
WatchWhat is Anonymous?
Jeremiah Warren put together this explainer video that dissects the origins of the hacker collective and their increasing blip on the radar of law enforcement and public attention.
William Safire's Rules for Writers
Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put statements in the negative form.
Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
A writer must not shift your point of view.
And don’t...
Wikipedia Will Go Offline Wednesday for SOPA... →
Despite rumblings from Capitol Hill that the recently-defanged SOPA legislation not see the light of day, Wikipedia announced today that it is joining the Black Out protest scheduled for January 18th nonetheless.
Post Secret App: Closed
How an open internet isn’t always that great… the end of a fantastic app.
The PostSecret iPhone App is Now Closed
It pains me to announce that the PostSecret App is now closed. In some ways, this is because of its success. It reached the top-selling spot in the App Store and users shared over 2 million creative secrets. Like the PostSecret Blog, the App was designed so each secret...
Digital Storytelling: meer dan een goed verhaal
Storytelling is booming. Als begrip, als way of life, als cash machine voor adverteerders en broadcasters. Iedereen heeft het erover, sommigen met een extra woord ervoor geplakt (transmedia storytelling, visual storytelling, digital storytelling), anderen gebruiken het als losse kreet (‘een stukje storytelling in de marketing mix’), maar bijna niemand levert er uitleg bij.
The Voice of...
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Excellent article on how the painful truth of...
Paywalls held out the possibility, however illusory, that if all readers could be treated as customers, the organization wouldn’t have to pay much attention to them, except in aggregate. Threshold charges blow that up; a single fee-paying user will generate hundreds of times the revenue of the median, ad-viewing reader. This subjects the logic of the print bundle — a bit of everything for...
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via drinkyourjuice)
December 2011
12 posts
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– Waxy’s Andy Baio on the “No Copyright Intended” phenomenon and the future of remix culture (via curiositycounts)
“Post-digital is not anti-digital. It extends digital into the beyond. The web...”
– Welcome to the post-digital world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/post-digital-world-web?CMP=twt_fd)
November 2011
20 posts
The smaller the attendance the bigger the history.... →
“What is the art of immersion? The focus of the book is on how the internet is changing storytelling; and the idea is really that every time a new medium comes along, it takes people 20 or 30 years to figure out what to do with it, to figure out the grammar of that medium. The motion picture camera was invented around 1890 and it was really about 1915 before the grammar of cinema–all the...
Why Kids Can't Search
“High school and college students may be ‘digital natives,’ but they’re wretched at searching… In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search? Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school. Under 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, elementary and high schools...