Category: internet
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[blip.tv //blip.tv/play/gshVtNIUAg.x?p=1 width=”500″ height=”378″] The next time your parents/friends ask you how you have so much time to write/photo/film/make music on the internet, show them this vid. (Source: https://blip.tv/)
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Visualising the growth of the Internet
Nice graphic on the spread of Internet access since 1998, from the BBC. Notice how countries that serve as undersea cable hubs are high access regions. Would like to see this broken down by type of access, specifically land-based (broadband, etc.) v. mobile (3G. etc) access. I think that would surface a difference in adoption…
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[vimeo 7545734 w=500 h=281] Know Your Meme: Auto Tune (featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic) Via Vimeo’s 25 favorite videos of 2009 More Know Your Meme episodes. (Source: http://www.vimeo.com/)
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JIp3yStpmg?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] WE are THEY Just watched the Lessig “wireside chat” on changing copyright, remix culture and fair use. Yes, THAT presentation: the one that was dubiously silenced by Warner Music Group but has since had its audio returned. Another entertaining and inspirational presentation from the master. I support his clarion call for people to…
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Idea: The Email Abstract Field
I so need this. Though, considering how many people cannot use the Subject field effectively, I cannot imagine how widespread adoption of the Abstract field would damage the Internet. Idea: The Email Abstract Field
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http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History Excellent talk. Great speaker. Here Comes Everybody is the next book queued up on my Kindle. More insightful TED talks on social media from Mashable. (Source: http://video.ted.com/)
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It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah I think there’s one half a mile down, maybe. And you drive half a mile and see a big carwash place, and you park and walk in and ask to speak to the manager. And…
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Japanese web browser preferences
From What Japan Thinks. By no means a definitive sample, but the 31% Firefox marketshare is encouraging. Japanese web browser preferences
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Google: now serving cowardliness Also seen on Pharyngula: Google is being sensitive
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Google: now serving cowardliness Also seen on Pharyngula: Google is being sensitive