BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Any one of us only knows those in a small slice of this environment. How else? We can’t spend all day and all night reading weblogs. That way lies madness. As an example of knowing only a small selection of the voices, I was only recently made aware of the […]
s I edited the book today, while the snow blew in an oddly unendearing blizzard–alas, we missed the copper moon–I watched Joost. Specifically I watched a nice show on sleeper sharks, several episodes of National Geographic, and explored a bit with the other channels. A television network hosted entirely through the web (Internet Protocol TV […]
Seth Finklestein provided great coverage on the recent controversy over Wikipedia editor/community manager “Essjay” (one, two, three, four, five, and six). The gentleman in question misrepresented himself as a tenured professor, both in an interview and in Wikipedia. Rather than show him the door, Jimmy Wales defended him–boys will be boys or some rot. It was only when Wales found […]
I watched my first movie last night through Netflix’s “Watch Now” feature. I learned via Gizmodo that this feature is available for everyone, just by clicking a link in the accounts page. This is an effective way to roll this feature out, until it’s available for all accounts automatically in June: if you know what it is, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here’s a perfect example of how the computer field is broken: In a post at Coding Horror, based on earlier posts at Imran on Tech and Raganwald, the author parrots what the others state, that programmers can’t program. With lots of exclamation points. Why make such a breathtakingly grandiose claim? Because of what happens in […]