178 Posts Categorized "Rants"

In which I bark and growl about things that get under my fur.

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<3 Google

They may “Do No Evil”â„¢ but they can “Take Away Web Stuff That Works For No Credible Reason”. There is goes. Bye bye Reader. #GoogleNot4Life pic.twitter.com/2Yt4X7xuje — Alan Levine (@cogdog) April 6, 2013 If Google cannot afford the expenditure or running a web service, how are they funding the raft of experimentation? This is but […]

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Shrinkwr-APP-ing the Web

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sharyn morrow Will the open connected web as we once knew it be some quaint artifact we will only peer at as we swipe through apps on our mobile devices? Probably not. But still… I was enamored by a nifty technology from Wibbitz that […]

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The Things We Talk Ourselves Out Of

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Felipe Skroski So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he should do it. — Spinoza Lately I’ve been tuned into how […]

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Google Personality Disorder

I might be the last one left still using Google Reader. Why not? Although banished from the menus, it will work through July, 2013. I’m in no hurry to join the Mad Rush To Find The Perfect Reader Replacement That Does Not Exist. But I was surprised when tonight reader announced that a newer version […]

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The Back End of the Donkey

I’m bored of cows as a MOOCy metaphor; I found a new one: Isn’t he cute? The inspiration comes from a wise one — Neil Young — in The Donkey and Digital Music: The Full Dive Into Media Interview. Neil was on his stump, in grand ripping form, about how the digital music format that […]

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Web Makers / Web Breakers

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by concretecandy The web is a fabric we weave and wear together or tear apart. Posterous yesterday announced a new feature- the web they wove back in 2008? Thrown away in 2013. To you read URLs? I bet they changed the title of the post from […]

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One Day of All This Will Be Yours

When the world is full of things that don’t make sense, make a GIF. When you get tired of all the repeated echoes off the chamber walls put down that copy of The Chronicle, and make a GIF. When twitter is full of bird crap, make a GIF. Well… it’s a strategy that works for […]