Postscript
Pandora Didn’t Pay Its Employees for Two Years, or How I do Research
When I look at a story, sometimes I have to look past the history that has already been written to find the truth that was hiding behind it. This is one of those times. Continue reading
April 2020 Weblog: Learning to Be on a New Web
Our latest crisis has produced a different kind of web, and for many of us, a different attitude towards our online lives. Continue reading
I Read the Web’s Greatest Soap Opera So You Don’t Have To
The Spot was a webisodic soap opera that was as well-crafted as it was packed with drama. It boomed on the web for several years, and then faded away with virtually no trace. Until now. Continue reading
March 2020 Weblog: Trying to Think about Something Else
March has been a weird month, but the web trudges onward. Continue reading
February 2020 Weblog: We blog, you blog
This month is all about blog posts, from pesonal experiences with the web to the long-term effects of social media. Continue reading
The Tech: The First Newspaper published online
The first newspaper published online is not what you think. It began with the smallest of steps, when a group of students chose to experiment with the web. Continue reading
January 2020 Weblog: It’s a New Year, Let’s Try New Things
Quick personal note. Now seems like as good a time as any to try out a few new things on this blog / newsletter / timeline. So in no paritcular order, here’s a quick of laundry list of stuff I’ll be trying. Let’s see how I do. I want to tweet more. In the coming… Continue reading
December 2019 Weblog: I Hope Next Year Goes Better
This decade was not great for the web… There’s more than a few decade retrospective think-pieces making the rounds right now, but here’s a real kicker from Clio Chang, The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy. Chang’s essential argument is that over the last ten years the web has gotten worse in every conceivable way.… Continue reading
What’s With All the Internet Slang Anyway?
This post starts with a book. This book: It’s called Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms. That’s my copy. It’s a book I stumbled on while researching this topic, and one I’ve come to truly love for a variety of reasons, not the least of which because it’s written by Robin Williams who may but… Continue reading
November 2019 Weblog: Pre-Thanksgiving Wishes for the Web
Join me at Flashback Conference, February 10-11 in Orlando In February, I’ll be in Orlando, Florida giving a talk at Flashback Conference, a conference focused on the development of the web, and how its past has informed its present. It’s the first of its kind, which is going to pretty great right there, plus I’ll… Continue reading
CaringBridge: A Community Grown with Love
Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles and pre-viral word of mouth. We may have large social network behemoths that loom over the landscape and dominate the market these days, but they are a far more uniform and manufactured experience, one that’s… Continue reading
October 2019 Weblog: Changing How We Make the Web
A Great Reckoning I missed this last month, but if you read one thing from this months weblog, I ask that it be Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On by danah boyd, a researcher and technology analyst that’s made an enormous impact on the tech industry over the years. Last month, she accepted the Barlow/Pioneer Award… Continue reading