adriancooke + internet   28

Douglas Rushkoff and Program or be Programmed [Future Tense]
Antony Funnell interviews Douglas Rushkoff about the importance of technical literacy. Air date: February 24, 2011.
technology  interviews  radio  theweb  internet  software  computers  programming  education  society 
february 2011 by adriancooke
Net Index by Ookla
Ranks various locations (from cities to countries), and service providers, on Internet bandwidth.
bandwidth  broadband  data  international  internet  speed  performance 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Dynamo takes on YouTube for indie film rentals [Wired]
New startup to be announced at SXSW that will allow independent film-makers to rent their movies online and customise the user experience.
independent  film  internet  business  sxsw  user  experience 
march 2010 by adriancooke
FCC survey of Internet use [Free Government Information (FGI)]
Data shows that about one third of US homes lack broadband Internet access.
accessibility  internet  service  broadband  consumption 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Internet Vices [Patrick Moberg]
New awesome from Patrick Moberg. MySpace is my favourite.
illustration  social  site  wit  internet 
november 2009 by adriancooke
Is the great eMusic pricing experiment over? [LA Times]
E-music signs a deal to sell Sony music and is doubling its prices.
business  digital  independent  internet  mp3  music 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Old growth media and the future of news [stevenberlinjohnson.com]
Steven Berlin Johnson on the changing nature of content and implications for the news business.
media  information  newspapers  business  internet  journalism  news 
april 2009 by adriancooke
The shape of things to come [The Guardian]
Tom Teodorczuk, back in January, gets Clay Shirky’s take on the media landscape and the future of news.
media  internet  newspapers  journalism  news  future 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable [Clay Shirky]
This is one of the great pieces of writing on and about the Internet, focusing on the web’s impact on the newspaper business, which seems not long for this world.
media  internet  publishing  newspapers  journalism  history 
march 2009 by adriancooke
The kindness of strangers [Schneier on Security]
Bruce Schneier on how strangers usually help one another.
security  internet  culture  trust  social  psychology 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Why Newspapers Can’t Be Saved, but the News Can [NYTimes]
Eric Etheridge with a round-up of opinion on the future of newspapers.
media  internet  newspapers  journalism  print 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Is it wise to replace local IT services with, say, Gmail? [Ask Metafilter]
It's a good question since it keeps coming up: should you run your e-mail services in-house or adopt free or cheap third-party hosted solutions. Many people commenting in this thread seem to see the former as more work than it's worth, and have liked the experience of moving to the latter.
email  internet  service  google  information  technology 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Twitter from 1937 [mental_floss]
Apocryphal Twitter accounts based on old diaries.
twitter  internet  culture  historical  archives 
february 2009 by adriancooke
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Tweet [ReadWriteWeb]
Paul Smith is raising money for charity on Twitter by asking people to sponsor him to travel as far as he can using only rides and accommodations offered by people following him on Twitter.
internet  twitter  problem  solving  fundraising 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Do We Need a New Internet? [New York Times]
John Markoff on whether the Internet needs to start over to make it more secure and more scalable.
security  internet  architecture  networks 
february 2009 by adriancooke

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