If we’ve learned one thing from this week’s massive attack against the very fabric of our social connectivity, it’s that clouds don’t make the best stuff on which to build. Twitter, in particular, has shown how very vulnerable it is—a vulnerability we share as we become more dependent on Twitter for most of our communication […]
Month: August 2009
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The Tweet stuff
From RealTech The Tweet Stuff: When it absolutely, positively has to get there: If we’ve learned one thing from this week’s massive attack against the very fabric of our social connectivity, it’s that clouds don’t make the best stuff on which to build. Twitter, in particular, has shown how very vulnerable it is—a vulnerability we share […]
I’m not sure why the WhatWG folks thought that keeping an open door to the Twitter @whatwg account on the front page of their web site is a good idea, but it’s been interesting watching the *updates. Most are pretty juvenile, but there’s been some interesting snark along the way. Mostly, the posts have been by people asking why […]
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Who are these strange people
A favorite writer of mine is James Fallows at The Atlantic. He doesn’t have comments, but when I’ve sent him emails in the past, he always responds as quickly as he can, and in detail. He’s also been known to republish email comments, with permission, on his weblog—ensuring exposure to both new people and new ideas. James […]
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Twitter’s adverse impacts
I finally installed the Gregarius feed aggregator, even though it is no longer actively supported. I only need a web-based feed aggregator, and so far I’ve not been able to find a single one that is still actively being supported. Not a single one. In fact, most of the feed related software seems to have been […]