Category: internet

Will trade a Dopplr invite for a puffy Garfield sticker.

I know the Internet can’t sustain a zillion and one social sites, but I actually kind of get a kick out of trading beta invites.

If you don’t have anything to say, just keep talking.

There isn’t a single offender that put me over the top, but I don’t think I can bear to listen to another podcast in which three or four people sit around and talk out of their asses about things that they don’t actually know anything about or cared to research at all before sitting down to record.

User-generated semantics.

The more I hear the phrase “user-generated content,” the more I’m convinced it’s doing more harm than good.

Living the I(Phone) life.

Running away with nothing but the clothes on my back and the iPhone in my pocket.

Maintaining your sense of presence.

Instead of having one status mirrored across many sites, it would be better to have all of my different statuses aggregated into a single point, where I can see at a glance what I’m doing.

Signs of the Times: My portfolio.

Replay videos of a three-year-old game that was completely ignored by the press and didn’t sell peanuts? No problem.

UI Planes (and Pownce).

A roundabout way of getting to a very minor complaint I have with Pownce’s desktop app.

Games on the Web on the iPhone?

Maybe we just need a little push to bring games and Ajax together.

Twitter questions and answers.

Answers to some questions about Twitter.

Minnebar 2007.

A game designer sneaks into an conference full of web developers.

Better games than games.

“First, [it] provided me a source for continuous escapism; second, it gave me a never-failing sense of accomplishment; and third, it allowed me a platform for on-going identity construction and reconstruction.”

Culling the RSS herd.

My subscription list is creeping back up towards the 200 mark, which means it’s time to cull the herd again. When did reading become such hard work?

The Web we weaved.

We’ve reached the point where people go around creating web sites expressly for the purpose of slagging on those who dare to stick their necks out and have public lives, and then turn around and act surprised when people use these sites to spread fear and perpetrate violence.

Moments of engagement with games.

When we start thinking about games in terms of their moments of engagement with players, they become much more than a set of rules and fictions bound within in a magic circle.

Cold weekend thoughts.

It’s really cold out, and my mind wanders.

The Continuing Adventures of lonelygirl15.

YouTube’s breakout series has actually gotten more interesting since it dropped the pretense of reality.

The Web on the Wii.

I’m more excited about the Wii Internet Channel than I should be.

Even Beaverton is living in the future.

Now I can have my cake and watch it, too, even when I’m away from home. My parents have broadband access.

You. Or maybe Us.

Time Magazine chose “You” as its Person of the Year.

Obsessions and complusions.

Just a quick test of YouTube.

Saturday morning cartoons.

Now I can recapture my lost childhood and look into the future of broadcasting at the same time — how convenient!

You are not a unique snowflake, and that’s OK.

It should probably bother me to discover that my listening preferences overlap so heavily with those of a 24-year-old Colombian woman, or with the entire readership of Cat and Girl.

Buyer’s remorse.

Explain to me again why I bought a PSP? It wasn’t for the RSS reader, I’ll tell you that.

Lost in the Podcastosphere.

Yes, I know “podcastosphere” isn’t a word. At least, I hope it isn’t.

Signs of an Internet Culture, #294.

I enjoy stumbling onto signs that the Web is more than just a playground for the kinds of people who like to tinker with document object models and CMC paradigms. Case in point: those postcards that sit in little stacks at the coffee shop, next to the alt-weekly newspapers.

Next on VH1: Behind the Webserver.

The Web is no longer this new and shiny thing that I’ve just discovered, but is now enough of an established institution that it can produce “where are they now?” stories.

My friends are cooler than your friends.

It seems like the Huffington Post is banking on the idea that if they get enough famous people to write for them, people will have no choice but to read at least some of their posts.

There’s more to life than bitching about mainstream media.

The whole “bloggers vs. journalists” debate feels insanely remote to me, but it’s not hard to understand why it often seems to be the only topic of discussion.

The Bleacher Bums.

I had totally forgotten that today was to be the “official” launch date for the site until I heard a plug for it on the radio.

Adobe buys Macromedia; GameStop buys Electronics Boutique.

Josh reads way too much into simple business transactions.

Del.icio.us!

Its lack of features is a strength rather than a drawback.

Will blog for food, or, the rise of the blogotariat.

Or, Josh gives in and starts blogging about blogs. Bloggity blog blog.