Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Orphaned Tweets
After examining some 300,000 Twitter accounts, a Harvard Business School professor reported last week that 10 percent of the service’s users account for more than 90 percent of tweets.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Google: We’re Actually Really Small
Three times in the last month, government agencies have targeted Google (GOOG) for antitrust reviews.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Like a lot of people, I’ve been trying to trim expenses lately as I settle into leaner financial times.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Kill Your RSS Reader
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t
We’ve been waiting a long time for political upheaval to follow in the wake of technological change, and on April 7, it seemed to have arrived.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Don’t Get All Huffy About the Huffington Post
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Worm That Ate the Web
Last week, I pulled out my Internet cable, unplugged my USB drives, and searched my Windows machine for Conficker, the astounding computer worm that threatens to wreak global havoc once its latest version begins to phone home for further instructions on April 1. Well, maybe: While security researchers warn that the worm’s creators may be planning on conducting fraud or even “information warfare” aimed at disrupting the Internet, nobody knows what terrible deed Conficker will ultimately pull off.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Speak, Atari
Born in the early 1970s, I’ve experienced only a few world-changing events along the lines of the automobile, the telephone, and the television.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Stop Whining About Facebook’s Redesign
Do you hate Facebook’s new design? Do you find the homepage too noisy, with important updates from your friends getting buried under a stream of banal comments from high school classmates and other people you pity-friended? I bet you think the site’s confusing, too. I’ve got news for you: You’ll get over it soon enough.
Monday, March 23, 2009
I Can Has Internet Millions
For the Web’s cognoscenti, the lolcats fad is so over. I Can Has Cheezburger, the site that sparked captioned-cat-picture mania, launched in January 2007. The online world’s early adopters learned about the phenomenon that February, when Boing Boing first linked to the site. Over the next few months, lolcats showed up in Gawker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and Time. Last October, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, the site’s founders, published “I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun,” a book that spent 13 weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
In Bloom
Last week, when the hardcore gamers of the world were supposed to be firing up The Lost and Damned, a new, downloadable episode of Grand Theft Auto IV, I instead decided to spend more than $400 for the privilege of playing a $10 game.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jurassic Web
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today: It’s 1996, and you’re bored. What do you do? If you’re one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you’d do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are–”Welcome.”
Friday, February 20, 2009
Not All Information Wants to Be Free
The idea that people won’t pay for content online has become such a part of the Web orthodoxy that New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller risked getting lynched earlier this month for merely musing about paid models for the online editions of his paper. But some successful paid sites hint that free content need not be the model the media are forever stuck with.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
No Carping. We’re Bloggers!
The founder and CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, announced that five blogs in his “community” critical of Web personality Julia Allison have been taken down because they were “derogatory” and constituted “harrassment.” … I suppose Karp can kick whomever he wants off his site–but that’s exactly what seems to be going on here. It certainly smells like a CEO protecting a friend.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Green Monster
GMO refers to “genetically modified organisms.” A genetically modified crop results from the laboratory insertion of a gene from one organism into the DNA sequence of another in order to confer an advantageous trait such as insect resistance, drought tolerance, or herbicide resistance. Though there has been a backlash to such “Frankenfoods” among some, merging genetic engineering and organic farming could provide for increased sustainability in the future.
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