Yeah, those free web services that give you so much if you give them your content. A salute to 35 Dead Web Services. I could have added many kore, but I got tired. Who knows where the idea came from? Maybe it was some media making tool someone tweeted named after nuts. And I got […]
Most of the time it’s intentional, but I do not always plan to use a dog metaphor. It just happens. In setting up the trubox multisite as a place for You Show participants to start their blogs, I came up […]
On my 2013 visit to Hong Kong, my friend Nick and his wife Kelly took me on a trip to this place called Stanley. When we were going through the market, Kelly picked out a shirt for me; she said […]
These are some notes from my experience here at TRU running two different WordPress sites that are enabled as multisite, or more properly, networks of sites. Among the reasons for doing this include wanting to have a platform to offer […]
In the process of making my last post I was compelled for reasons not work explaining to generate an animated GIF using as an overlay, the numbers display like in the movie The Matrix. I really do not need to link or embed that, do I? I did find what I was looking for searching […]
I almost missed this tweet. User 740343 | @cogdog | Created Wed Jan 31 21:24:02 2007 — Every User (@Every_User_) February 22, 2015 With apologies to John Entwistle My name is 740343, And I’ve just become alive I’m the newest populator Of the planet we call Twitter Following the curiosity link for @Every_user I find […]
Blame Mike… https://twitter.com/holden/status/568875343165071360 How can I avoid such a calling? AT&T’s 1983 rollout of the Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal hits it all- information overload, online shopping, banking, and school, all with majorly poofy hair, and maybe some of the best eyebrow raises in corporate video history and some background upbeat midi music that […]
Almost a year ago I started a project that has no real purpose beyond my own curiosity and interest in web history (if I were to invent a new dream job it would be something like Web Archeologist). During a […]
Keith Bunting and Kayle Brandon’s project challenged ideas of boundary crossing in the physical world (supposedly made freer by formation of the European Union) as well as the online world (supposedly made freer by open, global access). But this freedom is not equitable, it comes with social and economic privilege, and not for activists or those seeking asylum.
Just when you thought where the You Show was headed (well we doubt you thought that, but it sounds good), something unexpected happens in Episode 5 The idea for this emerged from conversations Brian and had during the latter week … Continued
