Tag: Internet

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| October 23, 2009

escaping

It’s interesting that the NYT today ran one story about people who refuse to have cellphones and another story...

| August 20, 2009

Lessig on GBS

A video of Larry Lessig's talk on the Google Book Settlement — and its legal and technological background...

| August 13, 2009

war is over, if you tweet

Last week I finally got around to reading Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet, his history of the telegraph....

| August 5, 2009

an assignment

In relation to my earlier post on academic genres, here’s an assignment that I’ve been thinking about...

| July 21, 2009

accept my cyborg self!

Danah Boyd doesn't just want to be a cyborg, she wants to be accepted as a cyborg. Recently at a conference she was...

| July 14, 2009

antisocial bookmarking

Via Daring Fireball I just learned about Pinboard, which describes itself as “antisocial bookmarking.” I am...

| July 13, 2009

his tiny life

I often think that all stories about the relations between online gaming and real life are just footnotes to Julian...

| July 10, 2009

living in the clouds

The Newshour with Jim Lehrer last night did a story on cloud computing that was rather comical at times —...

| July 8, 2009

why do I bother?

. . . writing a post about Google's plans to build their own OS, when I could have just waited for Fake Steve:...