“For more than a decade, the consumer electronics and technology industries have awaited the collision of media that would bring television, the computer, the video-game console and the stereo into one tidy convergence box.|Turns out, we’ve been looking in the wrong place. Convergence has already happened — inside the minds of kids who’ve grown up…
“Writing for the Web requires careful planning. Your content needs to fit well within the context of your website. When a reader finds your content, they need to be able to scan it quickly. That’s what metadata is about. In order for your website to be found, you need to write for how people search.”…
“No there is no page here. There is no page within a hundred kilobytes of here. I am not worried. And neither should you be. In fact, as we speak, viruses are committing suicide outside the firewall of this server, and we encourage them to continue doing so.” —Error 404 — File Not FoundBush World…
“One of the first scientists I spoke to, a highly decorated nanochemist, confessed in the most forthright way that he felt he had been duped. It turned out that his candor was typical.|But these physicists were more than helpful. They were downright friendly. They often had to stop to explain concepts that were elementary to…
“To an amazing degree, the Baghdad-based press corps avoids writing about or filming the friendly dealings between U.S. forces here and the local population–most likely because to do so would require them to report the extravagant expressions of gratitude that accompany every such encounter. Instead you read story after story about the supposed fury of…
“The Baltimore Sun essentially accused me of pretending to witness an incident of friendly fire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. When I explained that I had made an honest mistake in the heat of combat confusing that incident with another we videotaped in Tora Bora, the paper countered that there was no friendly fire incident in Tora…
“The decision to make the cafeterias into ‘no pay zones’ spread through the 40-acre complex like wildfire. Soon, the hungry patrons came running. ‘It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene,’ said one Aramark executive who was present. ‘They took everything, even the silverware,’ she said. Another witness from U.N. security said the…
“What can one say to a writer who thinks he’s arguing for the existence of our very essence? Thanks, but, uh, your timing is bad? That you have the misfortune of living in a time of exponential technological growth, where miniaturization is colliding head-on with genetics, where technologies may so on have the potential to…
“What the heck is Jakob Nielsen doing goofing around with a lightsaber? Or is he conducting a useability [sic] study of it, perhaps?” filmgoerjuan —Star Wars KidMetaFilter) Be sure you watch the original first, and then the remix. Similar:I am not in the splash zone but still definitely out of my comfort zone. Support the…
“Thanks to the forthcoming changes to the law on marriage, you will soon be able to ‘tie the knot’ wherever you wish……….YOU decide, we will provide a church for you !!” —Inflatable ChurchInflatableChurch.com) Words fail me. Similar:Carolyn Gombell Is Not a Real Person: #JusticeforCarolyn Is a Campaign Against Twitter Ref…Fascinating use of social media. To…
First, take the survey; then read the results. —Roper Geographic Survey 2002National Geographic) An intersting tidbit: “Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.” Similar:When Is Asking the Question Part of the News? (Rarely.) We mostly only encounter the phrase “whe…EducationDon't hide your online…
“It’s about making sure an employee is doing the job he was hired to do, not getting caught up in some overgrown, overly opinionated diary/hobby that unfairly treads on his association with his employer and has the potential to damage his employer’s reputation.” Eric Meyer —Meyer: Employers have Right to Ban Blogging (CyberJournalist) Similar:I was briefly…
“To suggest, then, that a newspaper has the right to force a newsroom staffer to kill his weblog is tantamount to saying the newspaper has the right to prevent newsroom staffers from publishing any personal website, or perhaps even from posting comments to an online-news mailing list. Woe to ye who enters a newsroom —…
[An article I wrote on Vannevar Bush is second on the list of 23,800 hits. It’s just a fluke, really — the word “George” is in there because of hypertext theorist George Landow. But that’s part of what makes it so amusing. Thanks for the chuckle, Elwyn. –DGJ Update: Added vidcap.] —Who Blogs Better Than…
“We studied several of the best bloggers and their styles. The best blogs, we found, are not those that actually get the most page views in a day, or that get the most links. In fact, the blogs that get the most links are the ones who find the best blogs and then point the…
“The first federal antispam bill was introduced in 1997, and after six years of closed-door wrangling and repeated delays, Congress still has not acted. But consumer outrage and complaints from legitimate businesses have been keeping pace with the growth of bulk e-mail. Now it’s open season on spam in Washington.”Dellan McCullagh —Lawmakers: It’s Open Season…
The Digital Revolution Oh my goodness gracious, What you can buy off the Internet In terms of overhead photography! A trained ape can know an awful lot Of what is going on in this world, Just by punching on his mouse For a relatively modest cost! — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld —The Poetry of…
“One could spend less time and money and gain employable skills in other ways. Too many people who do not really value learning or respect academic accomplishments are in college classrooms, and this cheapens the experience for everyone…. [O]nly go to college if you really want to become an educated person.|That means learning to use…
“Online advertising software vendor Unicast is introducing a new kind of Internet ad that doesn’t just pop up over a portion of the browser but rather fills the entire screen of the computer user.|The New York-based company described the new unit as a ‘full-screen, 15-second, 300k online ad.’ Unicast promotional materials suggest the new format…
Play the part of the famous lovers with this customized version of the classic Shakespearean drama. Relive the thrill of classic lines with you in them. “Oh Brad, Brad. Wherefore art thou Brad?”“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Helen is the sun.” What’s more, if you choose the…