Tag: Internet
QotD
The ubiquity of Facebook plus the end of Net Neutrality plus the conversion of the open internet into increasingly walled off proprietary information delivery systems is turning the public sphere into a much less free place than it ever has been and people seem to LOVE IT. — jeffrey on nolablist (walled off proprietary information […]
Read More → QotDCollaborative Story Assignment
A photo I took in 2005 was recently used to spur a collaborative writing assignment. I have no idea where the class was even located. I only found this through Flickr’s referrer logs. The students used EtherPad to collaborate, allowing me to see the final product. Here are their instructions. As a group pick one […]
Read More → Collaborative Story AssignmentDisconnected, Part III: Attack of the Spambots
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice: Your account […]
Read More → Disconnected, Part III: Attack of the SpambotsDisconnected
I seem to have been consigned to the deepest circle of Internet Hell. Pity me. Actually, I am typing this post in my own home. I’ve got internet on a computer here for the first time in over 15 months. And yet I’m not happy. And therein lies a convoluted tale of woe.
Read More → Disconnected50 Questions
Some members of my extended family have been playing one of those “getting to know you” e-mail games, where you answer a bunch of questions, some serious and some silly.
Read More → 50 QuestionsInternet
On the one hand, it’s been good for me, not having internet at home since the flood. It’s been good for my tendonitis. Typing and clicking all day at work and all night at home isn’t good. Confining my internet access to the office has helped control my online habit. On the other hand, I’m […]
Read More → InternetInformation Hole
Yes, we’ve got basic utilities: water and gas and electricity. But we are still sadly lacking basic information services. We have no phone, no cable, no internet. The newspaper won’t deliver to this area yet. Even the Post Office isn’t delivering to our neighborhood. (At least there’s radio. But my favorite station, WTUL, seems to […]
Read More → Information HoleGrokster
I’m rooting for Grokster, of course, in the case being argued at Ye Olde Supreme Court today. I mention this mainly because I make use of the peer-to-peer Gnutella network for a “substantial noninfringing use” — namely, to distribute ROX videos. I keep Acquistion running most of the time on my home computer. But I […]
Read More → GroksterFor the Record
I sent the following query to Computer Chronicles via the contact form on their website: I am trying to research the question of the first television show broadcast on the Internet. I have found a number of references indicating Computer Chronicles went online in 1995. Is any more information available regarding this event? In particular, […]
Read More → For the RecordThe Time Has Come
J just pointed me to this article on c|net, “Study: Broadband leaps past dial-up.” This means that for more people, watching video via internet will be easy, or at least less painful. Maybe it’s finally time for the World’s First Internet Television Series to hit it big.
Read More → The Time Has Come