Posts in: Internet life
- On the internet as surrogate meeting place
- From Saudi women revel in online lives on GlobalPost: In a country where about one-third of the population regularly goes online, the internet gives women “a place to vent out our frustrations and our dreams,“ said Reem Asaad, 37, a professor of banking and finance in the Saudi port city of Jeddah who blogs at reemasaad.blogspot.com. This [...] [4 Feb 2010]
- How big is a zettabyte?
- I’ll be honest: this is the first time I’ve ever used the word zettabyte. I’ve heard of petabytes and even exabytes, but zettabytes are a whole new level of bytes. If a zettabyte is beyond your comprehension, too, it’s essentially one billion trillion bytes: a 1 with 21 zeros at the end. To put that [...] [9 Dec 2009]
- Unicorns, Chupacabra, Sasquatch and Bandwith hogs?
- Flickr Creative Commons photo by noahbulgaria In his post Industry analyst Benoit Felten questions whether the telcos are B.S.-ing us with this notion of “bandwidth hogs” From his post: Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, the way that telcos identify the Bandwidth Hogs is not by monitoring if they cause unfair traffic congestion for other users. [...] [4 Dec 2009]
- Google launches Public DNS
- UPDATE: A post by David Ulevitch, founder of OpenDNS: Some thoughts on Google DNS (Via jbrotherlove) From the Google Blog post Introducing Google Public DNS: Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we’re launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out. Most [...] [3 Dec 2009]
- Lynne d. Johnson on social media and digital content
- From Social Times, an interview with Lynne d. Johnson, Senior Vice President at the Advertising Research Foundation and a beloved member of my blog family. The interview begins with a look back at Johnson’s career and ends with some of her insights about social media marketing. For example: Even more than social media, digital content gives [...] [19 Nov 2009]
- danah boyd on limited attention and information streams
- boyd posted notes from her Web2.0 talk, “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media” As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get content to anyone else. With the barriers to [...] [18 Nov 2009]
- Big Boston Warmup: Interactive Infographics done well
- Via @gsetser: The Big Boston Warm Up, an infographic presentation whose goal is to get you to donate a coat and help keep homeless people and families a little warmer this winter. The experience begins on the home page with a series of graphics that show the circumstances of Boston’s homeless. It’s a broad demographic profile, [...] [13 Nov 2009]
- “Continuous partial attention” and “email apnea” from the CBC’s “Spark” podcast
- The CBC’s Spark podcast is one of my regular listens. One recent episode featured an interview with Linda Stone, a longtime tech thought leader. She coined the term continuous partial attention, to describe our new way of multi-tasking and always-on communications. Now Stone has coined a new phrase: e-mail apnea. Stone first described e-mail apnea in [...] [8 Nov 2009]
- Recommended viewing: “Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy”
- From the TED web site: We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. [6 Nov 2009]
- Hunch.com: a review after 60 minutes of tinkering
- Earlier today, I received an email from Caterina Fake, team inviting me to check out her latest web venture. Fake, as you probably know, was a founding member of the photo-sharing community Flickr. Flickr was sold to Yahoo! in 2005 and last summer Fake left Yahoo!, presumably to start her Next Big Thing. Well that [...] [28 Mar 2009]