We are a baby hivemind spinning our training wheels.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
Ich kenn’ doch meine…
Googleheimer – Markus rantet und fasst die aktuellen Probleme mit/für Google zusammen.
Wie alles anfing.
E-Mails zuhause auf dem ersten eigenen Tchibo-Computer vorgeschrieben, auf Diskette gezogen, im Büro dann verschickt. Empfangene Mails ausgedruckt und mit nach Hause genommen. Machen manche heute immer noch so.
SOPApedia
So, yes, this is happening.
PandoDaily
Subscribed: PandoDaily, the new techblog by former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy.
To the moon!
Remember?
That Chrome extension that turns every “in the cloud” into “on the moon” makes tech blogs so much better.
@dominik
Dominik Schwind
It’s this one here: Chrome Extension: To the moon!
And this Ask Metafilter thread gets just so funny:
FWIW if you are in a job interview and the manager says “Oh yeah, we’re moving everything to the Moon”. No matter how ridiculous you think it is you should nod your head and agree ever so enthusiastically.
- Gungho
Public spaces
Does it really need to be explained why all this is bad? The courts have spent centuries determining reasonable limits of free speech in public settings: we don’t need private corporations absorbing the public sphere, providing governments and themselves easy mechanisms to marginalize anyone unwilling or unable to play nice inside the walled gardens.
Rob Beschizza – Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces
Hipster.
Hipster. Hipster… Hipster!
“the experiment really worked”
It has been a few days now since Louis CK started selling his latest stand-up special online, DRM-free for 5 US$. Today he posted an update on the state of the project:
I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and I’ll certainly do it again.
As a big fan (and who isn’t, these days?) I am happy to see that we internet people did not disappoint. And it’s good to see statements like
The development of the website, which needed to be a very robust, reliable and carefully constructed website, was around $32,000. We worked for a number of weeks poring over the site to make sure every detail would give buyers a simple, optimal and humane experience for buying the video.
because it shows how much care can be put into a site that basically “only” consists of three or four pages. And it shows. Buying the video has been simple and painless.
This is how the web should be: good content, delivered in a simple, useable way. And we the folks who create on the web should ask ourselves why the pages we built are not like that and don’t get the same amount of care and love.
Path and Death
There is an uneasy feeling when you see someone setting their status in Path to “Sleeping in…” and then it doesn’t change back for a long time.
Of course that someone probably just forgot about the Path app, because it’s silly and this someone only dabbles in silliness and is not (like so many of us) a full-time connoisseur of it.
And yet.
So yeah, I like Flipboard a lot. Can I pay for it so it stays around?
Graffiti
You’ve created graffiti, but are keeping out Banksy.
Fred Oliveira’s comment on Why Mixel Requires Facebook Login
The secret of how to make awesome online communities
The funny thing is, no one’s really hiding the secret of how to make awesome online communities. Give people something cool to do and a way to talk to each other, moderate a little bit, and your job is done. Games like Eve Online or WoW have developed entire economies on top of what’s basically a message board. MetaFilter, Reddit, LiveJournal and SA all started with a couple of buttons and a textfield and have produced some fascinating subcultures. And maybe the purest (!) example is 4chan, a Lord of the Flies community that invents all the stuff you end up sharing elsewhere: image macros, copypasta, rage comics, the lolrus. The data model for 4chan is three fields long – image, timestamp, text.
