Category Archives: Technology

Is there a peak to user-generated content? Wikipedia contributions are on the decline in an age of decline

By Daniel | Published: August 11, 2009
The ecosystem of Wikipedia, and probably other wikis in the Wikimedia group, appear to be suffering from an over-vigilant team of editors who are increasingly quick to revert changes from less-active contributors. The newness and community-driven aspect of Wikipedia is suffering, in tandem with a decrease in fresh registrations. Let’s not be rash here, but [...]
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Announcing whatsonyourthing.com

By Daniel | Published: June 13, 2009
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

By Daniel | Published: June 10, 2009
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]

By Daniel | Published: May 8, 2009
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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Web Trend Map [data vis]

By Daniel | Published: April 7, 2009
‘Web trends‘ put out by Information Architects (.jp) is always a treat. Their map of the movers and shakers of the web are laid out like the Tokyo subway with a surprising amount of dimension: rank, reliability, site type, and key figures…. The layout is currently in final beta stage, so head on over there [...]
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Symptoms of the techno blind

By Daniel | Published: April 1, 2009
Music by genre, not artist, Tweet, then archive those in case. Beta invite code! Missed call from mum, After the status update from that friend who Just got RSS working. Tap keys and Brush off the dust— Reminds you of outside. This poem is not hosted on S3. But it’s probably redundant..
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Infantilizing the mid-21st century mind

By Daniel | Published: February 24, 2009
Via this article: “Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity” and “real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal [...]
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Seasteading, and the Ivory Tower [alternative societies]

By Daniel | Published: June 10, 2008
Now that I have buckets of free time to explore in my post-college life, I’ve become fascinated with the Seasteading institute. Their mission is to establish offshore communities as a sort of nation-less [read groundless] society. The trouble is, all they have is ideas and money–no willing groups or appropriately disgruntled and motivated libertarians to [...]
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PROMOTION of something (skype)

By Daniel | Published: March 21, 2005
Skype. It’s new, and it’s hot. It lets you make free calls to anyone who has the Skype software. Your eery voice travels across the interweb, and freaks the hell out of anyone who works for a telecommunications company. Freaking the hell outta the telecommunications industry is not what I’m about. I’m about free calls. That’s [...]
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