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September 2019 Weblog: Communities and Where They Sometimes Go Wrong

Published: September 26, 2019

The Darker Side of Blogging We web folk tend to look at the olden days of blogging as a simpler […]

The O.J. Trial Comes Online

Published: August 26, 2019

In Chapter 2 of what I’m calling my complete history, I traced one of the most massive shifts in the […]

June 2019 Weblog: IPO’s and the New and Old Web

Published: July 1, 2019

IPO’s Old and New Slack had its so-called “non-IPO” this month, which seems to have gone pretty well and came […]

May 2019 Weblog: Ask Me Anything!

Published: May 31, 2019

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through […]

April 2019 Weblog: Giving the Web Its Spirit Back

Published: April 30, 2019

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through […]

Special Announcement Edition: The Web Turns 30 and Time for a Big Change

Published: March 12, 2019

TL;DR I’m changing things up a bit. I’ll still be sharing history, but that history will look a bit different, and […]

The World Wide Web Recap, February 2019

Published: February 25, 2019

Each month, I send out a list of links from my research or around the web. Here’s the very best […]

Alt.zines and Memories of a Media Transition

Published: February 11, 2019

By Emerson Dameron In the late ‘90s, tiny magazines were having a moment. The popularity of underground punk and indie […]

Warring Editorial

Published: February 4, 2019

By 2000, Salon had made quite the name for itself with their quick, pithy headlines and stories that posted all hours of […]

The Web Recap, January 2019

Published: January 28, 2019

I like to cap off each month with a few links I’ve found from my research or around the web. […]

A Toast to Some Great Blogs

Published: January 7, 2019

The web has been… unpredictable. We usually think it will go one way, only to see it go another. Case […]

What Does “Public” Mean in the Modern Online World

Published: November 26, 2018

danah boyd has studied social implications of our digital lives since the very beginning of her research career. In the […]

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