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33 Microlog entries tagged with ‘webculture’
13 ways of looking at Medium
Finally an explanation of the thing, which is not explained very well on the Medium site itself. I still don’t get it. I mean I understand it now, but I don’t get it. Permalink ·
The Final ROFLCon and Mobile’s Impact on Internet Culture
I usually rear up when I read about things like this as they always strike me as faux-elite, cliquey hipster guff pretending to be far more important and influential than it really is. So it’s easy to be cynical. But Baio raises some highlights some worthy stuff and raises some excellent questions, even if he does slip a little into the mobile-is-changing-everything fearmongering. Permalink ·
Waxy.org Turns 10
Andy Baio celebrates a decade of his pioneering weblog. Congrats! (Also, it’s weird to think that my blog is older than his.) Permalink ·
This is what online harassment looks like
On the deplorable treatment being meted out to blogger Anita Sarkeesian for having the temerity to express her opinions. Even the comment thread on this post is depressing; where did all this sexism and misogyny come from lately? Or did these fucking frat bros only just discover the internet or something? Permalink ·
Evolving Blogging
A discussion about the state of blogging today with some of the early blog pioneers. There’s a lot of talk about comments, which is kind of beside the point — the big point as I see it — that blogging really died off because of Twitter. People like me must have been thinking ‘Man, blogging is hard work, but this Twitter thing is easy.’ And then Tumblr came along and that was it. But is blogging completely dead? Of course not! I’m writing this on a blog, aren’t I? It’s just that the audience and the culture are different now, if they even still exist. But were they ever really that relevant? They didn’t exist when the earliest bloggers started and they still did their thing. Permalink ·
Where are the judges fit for the internet age?
“The web is making what was local global. It makes that evidence of faults, which once would have been forgotten, permanently available to the malicious and small-minded.” Indeed. Permalink ·
No Copyright Intended
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.” I half agree with this; remix culture (fan edits, supercuts, etc) is one thing — and a good thing at that — but the apparent misapprehension of copyright among young people (that it’s just a means of attribution, not of protection of artists’ livelihoods) is another matter entirely. Permalink ·
Louis CK answers fans’ questions on Reddit
Dude is really embracing new technology, and he understands more about the web than he thinks he does. I ponied up for his stand-up special too; looking forward to watching it (can’t laugh now, throat’s still too sore). Permalink ·
The Video Remix ‘Supercut’ Comes of Age
Andy Baio’s brief history of this web video phenomenon. It’s the kind of creativity that bullshit legislation like SOPA would kill stone dead. Permalink ·
Robottke
A robot blog emulating the style of Jason Kottke. It was bound to happen at some point. Permalink ·
On first glance, it’s just a blog post on dummy credit card numbers for testing e-commerce sites…
…but scroll down to the comments and things start getting insane. Only on the internet. Permalink ·
The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle
I made the switch to just my own name pretty quickly — it’s unusual enough on its own — but only recently removed the last vestiges of ‘mac2pointoh’. Sigh. Permalink ·
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs
The big problem here is that it’s never been easier for web novices to learn about the web, but their patience has dwindled by the same degree. It’s the same reason why people don’t read manuals. Permalink ·
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet
That third one? That’s me, that is. Permalink ·
The Blog in 2011: More Pictures, More Words
Nine years on, and I’m still trying. Permalink ·
WebCollage
Eleven years on the interweb and this totally passed me by till now (possibly NSFW). Permalink ·
Should you build your own home?
Why not? I built this site from scratch (though I use MT to manage it). It’s my home online, and I want it to reflect something of myself; it’s hard to do that with a theme or skin that a thousand other people are using. Permalink ·
Wikipedia’s list of emoticons
The breadth of subtlety these things can convey is frankly astonishing. Permalink ·
Irish High Court gives entertainment giants the power to disconnect whole families from the net
It’s bullshit of the highest order, of course. But at least our ISP isn’t willing to play along. Permalink ·
Serendipity Killed the Cat
For Dave Pell, ‘controlled serendipity’ is more like an uncontrollable addiction. In my view, guess it depends on whether those doing it are doing it for others or themselves; the difference is significant. Permalink ·
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