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if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan Kay had just become the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work with him to continue the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the idea of an Intelligent Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the (future) encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to render them. The captions also date from 1982.

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5 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Everyday Internet Miracles « : Illustrating the Power of Open - Many Possibilities

That’s why it is so important to live out loud on the Internet, to leave a breadcrumb trail while you work, because you just never know who is going to find your work valuable or who is going to have the answer to your problem.

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10 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Guidance regarding a tween's internet usage - internet tweens children | Ask MetaFilter

I am seeking ideas on guidelines for internet usage and privacy for a 12-year-old girl. She is pretty internet-savvy but not publicly sharing info yet (just email), and I'd like to guide her well as she begins to do so.

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11 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard

This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it’s just pathetic and sad.

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january 2012 by fjordaan

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…My heart’s in Accra » The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech

Based on my Tripod experience, I’d offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism. Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media – it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test – if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable.

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november 2011 by fjordaan

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The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry - Techland - TIME.com

And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too.

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november 2011 by fjordaan

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Internet Story | Adam Butcher - Writer. Director. Filmmaker

A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across country.

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october 2011 by fjordaan

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Warrick - Recover Your Lost Website

Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files. Please read our disclaimer.

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august 2011 by fjordaan

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African Undersea Cables « Many Possibilities

For a history of African undersea cables, have a look at this presentation. If you’re interested in seeing how these cables are changing access, Stanford University’s PINGer project is monitoring the impact of Seacom and other east coast cables as they come online. Also check out the UbuntuNet Alliance’s map of terrestrial fibre in Africa. Finally, for a more comprehensive look at undersea cables, check out Greg Mahlknecht’s map of undersea cables.

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july 2011 by fjordaan

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Greg's Cable Map
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july 2011 by fjordaan

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Sent From The Moon - Before the Internet…
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july 2011 by fjordaan

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Enormously moving speech on the way the Internet transforms lives - Boing Boing

one talk, by Jim Gilliam's "The Internet is My Religion," brought the house down. Jim worked in many early and influential Internet firms, went on to produce Robert Greenwald's extraordinary films, and do many other notable things. Among them was surviving two bouts of cancer and a double-lung transplant. The story of how he went from a Jerry Falwell born-again to an Internet advocate and film producer ended with a standing ovation and not a dry eye in the house. Watch this, please, I'd consider it a favor

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june 2011 by fjordaan

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Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief - storify.com

A man's laptop is stolen, but he's able to track it remotely and with the help of social media, recover it. (NSFW language. More story links at bottom.)

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june 2011 by fjordaan

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Seven ways to think like the web « Jon Udell

# Be the authoritative source for your own data
# Pass by reference not by value
# Know the difference between structured and unstructured data
# Create and adopt disciplined naming conventions
# Push your data to the widest appropriate scope
# Participate in pub/sub networks as both a publisher and a subscriber
# Reuse components and services

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march 2011 by fjordaan

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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme

Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation

To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time!

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may 2010 by fjordaan

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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)

Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

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february 2010 by fjordaan

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On HTML 5 Drag and Drop « alert debugging

HTML 5 is shaping up to be quite an impressive step up from the capabilities web developers are currently constrained to. One of my favorite new features provided by the spec is support for native drag and drop.

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september 2009 by fjordaan

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Slowpoke Comics: A Pixelated Past

"Tell us about the olden days!" "Yeah, what was life like in 2009?"

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may 2009 by fjordaan

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April Fools' Day RFC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 entitled ARPAWOCKY, which parodied Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky.

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may 2009 by fjordaan

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It's Really Just a Series of Tubes - O'Reilly Radar

Molly Wright Steenson hit the Ignite jackpot at Etech this year with her explanation of the steam powered network of pneumatic tubes of the 1800s. If you're someone that, like me, has a somewhat obsessive relationship with Internet Infrastructure, you must watch this talk.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.

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march 2009 by fjordaan

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fork handles: Back In Your Boxxy

The same internet machine that could propel you to the top of the Youtube charts and hand you online fame will happily chew you up and spit you back out just as quickly, with zero remorse or consideration for the consequences. This is the reality of the internet today, this case is not the first, and surely not the last. Catie, at least, well and truly learnt the power of the world wide web. Somehow, I doubt that will be of much consolation to her.

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january 2009 by fjordaan

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The Internet Pinball Machine Database

The Internet Pinball Machine Database - also known as the IPD or IPDB - is a comprehensive, searchable listing of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made.

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november 2008 by fjordaan

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Jango - Free Music - Internet Radio that Plays What You Want! Listen to Music Online Radio Stations

Custom radio that plays the music you want - free! (Plugged by Cnet, Wired, WSJ, Techcrunch)

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may 2008 by fjordaan

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The Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning Free

SAN FRANCISCO -- While Google has made headlines over the last two years for scanning thousands of copyrighted works for its Book Search project, the Internet Archive is quietly digitizing around 1,000 public domain titles every day.