Feb

27

The Tubes Are Still Clogged

February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Update: I’m just reading the actual bill and while the pdf of the bill doesn’t allow copy-and-paste, you can find the language about the whois on page 10. Basically, a domain registrar is not allowed to shield, mask, block, or otherwise restrict access to the registrants name, phone and fax number, physical address and email […]

Feb

11

Books and the Web

February 11, 2008 |

Tomorrow is going to be a pretty big day for books and the web. HarperCollins is going to start giving away a number of free books online and RandomHouse is going to start selling books by the chapter - or at least the chapters of one book, for now.
All of this also comes after […]

Jan

18

Kids don’t know s&*t about computers

January 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

(via Ars) According to a report by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, kids aren’t very good at finding information on the net, even though popular opinion seems to say quite the opposite.
From Ars:
A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite […]

Jul

2

1&1 and Digg Don’t Mix

July 2, 2007 |

Very frustrating weekend after I had a story on the digg homepage on Thursday afternoon. My hosting company, 1&1 couldn’t handle the traffic and the sys admins changed my .htaccess file to point to 127.0.0.1 for all my domains, effectively wiping me off the internet and barring me access to the .htaccess file so that […]

Jun

25

Class Divisions between Facebook and Myspace

June 25, 2007 |

Danah Boyd argues that there is a statistically relevant socio-economic divide between Facebook and MySpace users:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They are […]