Archives for the 'web' Category
Identity : Anonymity :: Community : Network (?)
Monday, September 5th, 2011
There’s been a fair amount of discussion around Google’s “real names” policy on Google+ in certain circles. Most recently in my stream, Fred Wilson pointed to Corey Doctorow’s post on the topic, and the discussion around that post crystallized some of what I’ve been thinking on the issue. To be specific, the crystal is: The [...]
On Making Stuff
Friday, July 1st, 2011
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been spending whatever time I can spare on a little project: building kisttr, a Kickstarter Backer Tracker. It’s a pretty straightforward hack that allows you to “track” (or “follow”, if you prefer) a group of Kickstarter users and see what new projects they’re backing without having to visit each [...]
Aggregation and Accretion
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Aggregation: a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. Accretion: the growing together of separate parts into a single whole. Bonus definition! Excellence: the state or condition of being excellent. Step One: Aggregation I begin with the proposition that aggregation has been one of the key concepts of the past five years [...]
Anatomy of a Better Twitter Bot
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
So you may recall that I put together a Twitter bot for the lyric of the day club a few months ago. You may also recall that I mentioned that my co-conspirator Daryn Nakhuda has the ability to write code that doesn’t, you know, “fail mysteriously and silently” and such. Well while it’s taken us [...]
Gedankenexperiment: Here is the Internet
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3. A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later. A digital native might refer to their new “camera;” a digital immigrant might refer to their new [...]
Anatomy of a Twitter Bot
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Update: If you’re here in search of sample code for a Twitter repost bot, I would strongly recommend going to the Anatomy of a Better Twitter Bot post, which has a much-improved iteration of the LOTD bot code. Update: Since Fred Twittered this post, it has reached a somewhat larger audience than expected and I’ll [...]
FCC: US Broadband Doesn’t Suck If You Squint Just Right
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
This via Dave Farber’s IP list. If I tell you that the big news that that the FCC has finally decided to increase the definition of “broadband” from 200Kbps (in one direction) all the way up to 768Kbps, and that “availability” will no longer be determined at the ZIP code level, does that give you [...]
Source Materials for the Identity API
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Read Joe Lazarus’ musings on the MyBlogLog API. Give some thought to Kim Cameron’s work regarding identity, paying particular attention to “delegation coupons”. Run through the writing that Dave Winer has done in the last couple of days on user generated content (UGC). Consider the evolution of online community, with specific reference to the model [...]
APIs Good. Crappy Web Hosts Bad.
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
So I’ve been thinking a little more about Tumblr. While it’s interesting (to me, anyway) to see what has accumulated in my Tumblog without any effort on my part, I still want to play more actively with it. Now as I noted a few weeks ago, even though most of my Tumblr content is just [...]
Twitter, Tumblr, and Me
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Prologue About three and a half years ago I wrote a post entitled Feed Splicing, Shell Scripts, and the Internet, giving voice to my enthusiasm for the ease with which I could combine the two shiny new toys I had just started playing with: del.icio.us and FeedBurner. In that post I noted that: By taking [...]
