Category Archives: Internet

HTML5 without words: Flame

If you’re not excited about html5 (a new protocol for rendering magic in websites without Flash) try out ‘Flame.’ Below is an image I made with it:
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Donate to the Creative Commons

If you have a few dimes to spare, Creative Commons.org is running a campaign to raise some bread. Gaze into this specially remixed logo by Shepard Fairey, and consider. Then donate.
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“I Love Lunch”

Check out the new performance by Improv Everywhere, “I Love Lunch” See more at Improv Everywhere… And my rant on Flash Mobs (and why Improv Everywhere does it right because they’re not selling anything except fun) For more visual fun, check out ‘Robot High School‘
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The death of blogging

I’m elsewhere: http://thefatanimals.com http://whatsonyourthing.com http://twitter.com/danielmorgan Neither is better than the other, though thefatanimals.com would hope you thought otherwise. Recent image making:
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43 Alumni – The Alumni Association of GWbush

Been hanging out on the web, wishing I could call myself a member of 43alumni. Sadly, I cannot. It’s magical to me that people would want to re-associate themselves with the worst presidency ever.
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Facebook acquires Friendfeed to become FaceFeed

An interesting set of comments on the recent Facebook acquisition of Friendfeed Filed in: Recently acquired gems
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Announcing whatsonyourthing.com

I started whatsonyourthing.com for a number of reasons I find it disturbing when people unwittingly carve out a huge chunk of their day to interact on a small screen, whether it be for text messaging, web browsing, or for playing games. This is a lo-fi behavior in a hi-fi world. We can do better than this. We [...]
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Army opens Mil internet access to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Vimeo

Photo by tcmhitchhiker Today was the day that Army bases were ordered to stop blocking social media sites. No Youtube, yes Vimeo. No Myspace, yes Facebook. Seems arbitrary, but those are the sites I prefer anyway, so I would be happy were I in the mil. It’s interesting what remains banned… The list includes: (a) YouTube, http://www.youtube.com (b) 1.FM, [...]
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Post to Friendfeed, Twitter, and the “realtime web” in 3 seconds flat from your Wordpress blog [tutorial]

To make a realtime Wordpress (self hosted) blog: Two plugins and one checkbox on Friendfeed: 1) Get Wp-sup. SUP is the protocol that updates Friendfeed, kindly developed by Friendfeed. It’s an instantaneous ping the moment a post goes up (one second) INFO: Check out this FAQ page, where you can also test the manual update of [...]
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From the Archive: “Open source revolution means more Internet” [4/8/2005]

I wrote the following article in 2005 after finding that there were few articles in my college newspaper that had anything remotely to do with the Internet. I was going to go through and edit it to fit my sensibilities of grammar and correctness, but I’ll let it stand. In April of 2005 the internet [...]
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