Posts in: Internet life
- Electronic Frontier Foundation releases net neutrality software package
- In light of reports that Comcast and other Internet service providers are tinkering with traffic on their networks, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released software that lets users test whether their own ISP is tinkering with data and violating every principle of network neutrality. From the EFF’s web site: Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Switzerland is [...] [1 Aug 2008]
- Recommended: “How to create a female-free geek dinner” by Tom Morris
- On the heels of Molly’s post Hooters: Not A Fair Place to Speak Geek, we have the how-not-to post from Tom Morris on women and geek dinners. What with the smoking ban and the fact that Hooters (etc.) is not everywhere, you cannot rely on the venue alone to make sure women don’t turn up. The [...] [17 Jun 2008]
- Plurk.com: Twitter on a timeline
- Meet Plurk, another Twitter-like microblogging service. It’s a fairly new addition to a space that also includes Pownce and Jaiku. After using it for a few hours, I’m torn between loving Plurk’s take on the 140-character update and thinking there’s just too much interface. Plurk does some things beautifully — the Getting Started Guide — for [...] [2 Jun 2008]
- Recommended: “Ugly Violet”
- Quoted from the piece: I just write and talk about sex. But every woman on the Internet gets called slutty and ugly and fat (to put it lightly) no matter what; all we have to be is female. In dinner conversation, my friend Lori reminded me of the Oscar Wilde quote, “Give a man a [...] [29 Mar 2008]
- Jay Smooth on Ashley Dupri and the Music Biz
- Original post [17 Mar 2008]
- SxSW 2008: On Loren Feldman and Black Tech Bloggers
- This year’s Black Tech Bloggers panel at South by Southwest was a response to the furor caused by Loren Feldman’s “Black Tech Blogger” An Internet Opera, broadcast last summer. I did not watch it then. I tend to get very pissed off and physically affected when folks make broad, offensive generalizations about me and mine [...] [15 Mar 2008]
- Aww junk! I been BoingBoinged! (Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?)
- Yeah, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing.net was at the South by Southwest “Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?” — a panel I was asked to join at the last minute (but not the very last minute. That honor belongs to Cheryl :-). ). So Joel wrote about it, and the comments went straight to typical. Which, of [...] [14 Mar 2008]
- A Thursday three-fer in case you missed it
- WordPress 2.3.3 WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information Google Docs now lets you create custom forms to collect information [...] [7 Feb 2008]
