It was not that long ago that people did not think the internet mattered to the economy as a whole. Now it seems the internet IS the economy. This has created a lot of interest in trying to control the internet from multiple different directions. These attempts to control that which is at this stage uncontrollable now threaten the internet
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The last couple of weeks have been embarrassing for anyone who calls themselves a “gamer”, so much so that I am disassociating myself from that title. Maybe I’ll call myself an “Online RPer” or something, I don’t know, but the “gamer” culture is over. For a couple of decades now there has been this ongoing joke about the existence or
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream (part 4) This is the 4th in a series about the affect of Internet on society. Part 1 was the new mass media, part 2 the new politics and religion, part 3 movies and TV. Today’s topic: social instability brought on by technology. Andrew Niccol is a screenwriter/director who often makes films with the
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The opposite of a golden age is a dark age. When it comes to design and visual imagery, I believe we are living in a dark age. The last dark age was the 1970’s. I sometimes like to go to the Plaid Stallions and laugh at what people thought was cool back in the 70’s. From today’s perspective it is
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? (Part 2) Something I almost never do in this blog is talk about politics and religion, and I am only going to talk about it in the most generic terms here. My thesis for today is that the wealth of information available through the internet is having unexpected consequences on what should be the
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Since the tragedy in Connecticut, a lot of people are crying that we should do something, and I think we should do something too. But since reports have come out that the person responsible for this tragedy enjoyed playing hours of Call of Duty in his basement, they are blaming video game culture for this. That would be a mistake.
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Telling the world that the internet is not destroying society is probably not going to get me a ton of hits, because who wants to read an article that is stating the obvious? So I thought I’d draw attention by misspelling internet. If I really wanted to get hits, I’d lead with some bald face lie like “‘The Demise of
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A little bit of departure from my usual stuff. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Arizona as a state, and being someone who lived here most of my life, I’d thought I’d share a little bit of history of the place. Basically, I’m hitting the top 12 highlights, with links to wiki articles for the full story. So where
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I have spent the last 15 years employed in the internet industry. Not with one particular company, but with multiple companies, supporting pretty much every aspect of the web. I did modem support, wireless support, search engine support, DNS support, domain name support, web server configuration, and I have run half a dozen websites, including forum administration, design practices, and
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I have never actually done a book review before on this blog, but my previous two blogs I did them all the time. After reading Reality is Broken, I felt compelled to write a full formal review, as its contents are perfect fodder for this blog. In fact there is enough here to fill a good half a dozen blog
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