At first glance, it seems like a regular blog. But look closer and you’ll see there’s something very odd about the blog’s content: It’s very familiar. Too familiar. That’s because you wrote it — six months ago on your own blog. The rest of the content doesn’t make sense: The same word repeated over and [...]
That’s Twitter
I am fascinated by Twitter; I can’t explain why. I was a little surprised by some of the stats in today’s New York Times story about Twitter: “Nearly 1.2 million users visited Twitter in December, a 223 percent increase over the same month the previous year, according to comScore Inc.” And Hitwise, which measures site [...]
Google Maps Follows Microsoft …
The inimitable phenomenon known as internal combustion is responsible for many unappealing things that plague the globe. Industrial waste. War. Virtual torrents of angels’ tears. But none is more a challenge to the progress of the human race than the creeping, crawling, abhorrent thing we call roadway traffic. Yes, bumper-to- bumper is in fact the [...]
The world’s 50 blogs
(((Just looking at these makes me ache for a hammock and a faintly mold-smelling antiquarian set of Robert Louis Stevenson essays. Yes, walking through old rural France, under the unclouded stars, with a mule, and without a telecommunication device of any kind…. Surely it would almost be worth dying young in Tahiti to have such [...]
Net Neutrality
How many readers really understand the debate raging about Net Neutrality? Don’t count on me to explain it in this post. However the lead singer for the band OK GO, Damian Kulash Jr. wrote a terrific Op-Ed piece in The New York Times the other day that concisely and graphically outlines the issues in Net [...]
