Posts tagged internet

Social Web c. 1997

poploser:

The modern social web as it would have looked in 1997. They even limit the transfer to dial-up speed, which is funny and infinitely frustrating.

This is awesome. I wonder if I can get a browser plugin to change my Facebook page to look like this.

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The Internet Problem: when an abundance of choice becomes an issue

by Cory Doctorow

My internet problem is the one so many of us struggle with: how do you choose when the constraints of geography, income and circumstance disappear? What goes in a playlist when all the music ever recorded is one click away? Which experts’ thought processes should you tap into when tens of millions of them are on Twitter? How do you choose a book from the millions that you can discover with a Google Books search?

Another great article by one of my internet heroes.

Guardian

rexbarrett: juliasegal: werkit (via juliasegal) Pretty sure that’s what my heaven will look like. Just add some kittens and I’d be all set.

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juliasegal:

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(via juliasegal)

Pretty sure that’s what my heaven will look like.

Just add some kittens and I’d be all set.

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jerry: And Then God Created Saturn [PIC] LOL! I’m actually pretty surprised it took this long for someone to come up with it. Hindsight 20/20, it seems pretty obivous. (-:

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And Then God Created Saturn [PIC]

LOL! I’m actually pretty surprised it took this long for someone to come up with it. Hindsight 20/20, it seems pretty obivous. (-:

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What I have suspected all along.

Cory Doctorow blogs about Cluetrain Manifesto

One of my favorite bloggers, Cory Doctorow, talks about one of my favorite nonfiction books, the Cluetrain Manifesto. It is almost ten years old, and the publishers are releasing a tenth anniversary edition.