Antonella asks Where did you get your news today? and explains how, after the 7/7 bombings in London, the truly visceral understanding of the news was to be found on the greater ‘net rather than in ‘official’ news channels like CNN.

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Main Page - Wikiquote
I just found this (again, running my requisite year or so behind everybody else). Terrific trove of quotations — a wiki-based commonplace book!

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The Buzz Report: Five reasons social networking doesn’t work - CNET.com
I think this article kind of misses the point. Sure, social network websites as distinct businesses are dying off — I’m surprised anybody thought they’d make money doing it to begin with. It’s like selling ice in the Arctic.
The phenomenon of Social Networking isn’t dying […]

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Evidently the two book reviews I’ve written for Boxes and Arrows have been rated as “Good” here:
EServer TC Library: Authors: Hinton, Andrew
I never got reviews before!
Even though, really, these are reviews of reviews … which is kind of meta-ish. Fitting, I suppose.

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This is my experiment in coining a Technorati tag.
We’ll see if this works.
I like this term “metafatigue” — it started out as “metaexhaustion” in a previous post, but I like ‘fatigue’ better, and it kind of sounds like “metal fatigue” which fits somehow.
I’ll define it here as “the feeling of enervation and […]

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I’ve been trying to tweak my weblog to make use of all the various meta resources that seem to be cropping up like chickweed. And I have a confession to make … I’m sick of it.
I know that in order to be a part of the true enlightened blogigarchy, I should have RSS feeds in […]

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The Internet: Past, Present and Future - Internet & WWW History — an excellent history of the birth of the Internet.
Also see this timeline.

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Article in Business Week, The Power Of Us, explains how Skype is the latest major example of how the vast organism of humanity that is the Internet can rise up and form emergent systems and infrastructures.
I like the language used here — it’s appropriate, I think, to the magnitude of the phenomenon. It’s […]

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You may or may not have already heard of PostSecret, but I only just learned of it.
It’s fascinating to me both because of its function and its format. The function isn’t that different from many blogs where people post their secret thoughts, exhibiting them anonymously… some journal communities do this on LiveJournal and elsewhere. […]

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Many-to-Many: Yossi Vardi on Social Software
Yossi Vardi, the founding investor of the company that created ICQ (which is now up to over 400 million users) spoke at the Les Blogs conference in Paris. He made the point that there are three to four major forces on the Internet: self expression; communication; sharing; collaboration.
Notice none […]

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For a net-head, I’m pretty slow at discovering and adopting new Internet stuff … one thing that’s taken me forever to get around to is to set up any knd of aggregator for RSS feeds of favorite blogs and such. But now I’m totally digging Bloglines.
I can’t wait to play with some of its […]

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I upgraded Movable Type to their stellar new version, and reactivated comments, now that the engine enables me to review them before they post. (It also has a nifty feature that allows anyone who’s registered at TypeKey.)
Read all about the lovely new engine here:
Movable Type Publishing Platform
Installation isn’t for the novice, however. If you […]

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