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collision detection: "How did you find my site?" and Vannevar Bush's memex
memex  via:boingboing  bookmarks  internet 
september 2011 by vielmetti
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Situational overload and ambient overload
We experience ambient overload when we're surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the neverending pressure of trying to keep up with it all.
information  internet 
march 2011 by vielmetti
Yes, we do know what day it is (but we probably won't say so) | Mind your language | Media | guardian.co.uk
For an online readership, words such as 'tonight' and 'yesterday' can be confusing and misleading - so we have dropped them
guardian  internet  reporting  time 
february 2011 by vielmetti
[no title]
As we use a number of CDNs, and our clients can adapt to changing network conditions by selecting the network path that’s currently giving them the best throughput, Netflix streaming performance ends up being an interesting way to measure sustained throughput available from a given ISP over time, and therefore the quality of Netflix streaming that ISP is providing to our subscribers. Obviously, this can vary by network technology (e.g. DSL, Cable), region, etc., but it's a great high-level view of Netflix performance across a large number of individual streaming sessions.
internet  netflix  performance  video 
january 2011 by vielmetti
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A 12-Year-Old Explains the Information Age's Facts of Life to Her Mother.
Think of a blog as a newspaper that people actually read.
funny  generation  humor  internet 
january 2011 by vielmetti
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
[4] People commonly use the word "procrastination" to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
addiction  culture  health  internet  technology 
january 2011 by vielmetti
I Won’t Hug This File — I Won’t Even Call It My Friend—By John R. MacArthur (Harper's Magazine)
The energy devoted to the Net is an astonishing waste. This is time that obviously could be better spent talking to a friend or a child, reading a good book, or marching in a political demonstration.
content  free  internet  publishing  get-off-the-internet 
january 2011 by vielmetti
the connective
Together we can replace the telco's 'last mile' - the communication networks at the neighborhood level - with our own 'first mile' of free and open connectivity. I am launching the connective to give communities around the world the seeds and support they need to own and control the connnectivity in their neighborhoods.
activism  commons  culture  internet  fork-the-internet 
january 2011 by vielmetti
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
That's what I tell my Gutenbourgeois friends, if they'll listen. I say: Create a service experience around what you publish and sell. Whatever “customer service” means when it comes to books and authors, figure it out and do it. Do it in partnership with your readers. Turn your readers into members. Not visitors, not subscribers; you want members. And then don't just consult them, but give them tools to consult amongst themselves. These things are cheap and easy now if you hire one or two smart people instead of a large consultancy. Define what the boundaries are in your community and punish transgressors without fear of losing a sale. Then, if your product is good, you'll sell things. (Don't count on your fellow Gutenbourgeois to buy things. They're clicking the little thumb icon on YouTube like everyone else.) If you don't want to do that then just find niche communities who might conceivably care about your products and buy great ad placements. It's a better online spend.
culture  internet  publishing  web  writing  customer-service  why-wasnt-i-consulted  commentariat 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Posies Cafe » Blog Archive » Groupon in Retrospect
In short, to dear Lucinda and anyone else that comes in with a Groupon in hand, please know that our respectful decline of your coupon is not personal. It’s because we cannot afford to lose any more money on this terrible decision I made, and the only saving grace we had was an expiration date.
business  groupon  internet  pr 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Denouement: Only Disconnect
Shteyngart discovers that his frontiers are determined by his cell phone reception. If individuals are reliant on the map to organize their interactions with space, and that map is delivered via satellite, one's perspective is immediately determined by the connection to that data source. This then determines the partitioning (defining) of the space that the individual is able to inhabit. One cannot practice something that is not known; though we can repeat motions without understanding. This is merely repetition. Machines can repeat. People should know and be known. Thus to follow maps, of any sort, without allowing for our own wandering and practicing of place is to repeat actions without the understanding of how the structure of chosen steps affects our own reading/discourse with the space of the world around us in determining the practice of everyday life. Failure to practice results in an eventual loss of space because the reason for the space's existence (reading a book, walking without a screen, etc.) is forgotten or at least subsumed to the insistence of daily routine which is not the practice of everyday life. Rather we should end everyday "as we commune in some ancient way, laughing and groaning...in the fading...light." Indeed, Mr. Shteyngart, indeed.
maps  iphone  only-disconnect  internet  zombie 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Essay - Only Disconnect - NYTimes.com
The city I had tried to set to the page in three novels and counting, the hideously outmoded boulevardier aspect of noticing societal change in the gray asphalt prism of Manhattan’s eye, noticing how the clothes are draping the leg this season, how backsides are getting smaller above 59th Street and larger east of the Bowery, how the singsong of the city is turning slightly less Albanian on this corner and slightly more Fujianese on this one — all of it, finished. Now, an arrow threads its way up my colorful screen. The taco I hunger for is 1.3 miles away, 32 minutes of walking or 14 minutes if I manage to catch the F train. I follow the arrow taco-ward, staring at my iPhone the way I once glanced at humanity, with interest and anticipation.
cyberspace  metaverse  internet  zombie 
december 2010 by vielmetti
n+1: Sad as Hell
In an essay in the New York Times Book Review, Shteyngart makes literal the pervasive disquiet that organizes his novel. Published mid-summer, “Only Disconnect” laments all the ways in which the internet imposes on his thinking. He seems to have woefully accepted the words of the “20-something Apple Store glam-nerd” who sold him his iPhone: “This right here . . .  is the most important purchase you will ever make in your life.” The essay serves as a supplementary text to Super Sad True Love Story, one that makes explicit just how much Shteyngart is actually writing about the present. “With each post, each tap of the screen, each drag and click,” he confesses, “I am becoming a different person—solitary where I was once gregarious; a content provider where I at least once imagined myself an artist; nervous and constantly updated where I once knew the world through sleepy, half-shut eyes . . . With each passing year, scientists estimate that I lose between 6 and 8 percent of my personality.” 
internet  zombie  only-disconnect 
december 2010 by vielmetti
How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com
Here’s a passage from a youngish writer named Alice Gregory, taken from a recent essay on Gary Shteyngart’s dystopic novel “Super Sad True Love Story” in the literary journal n+1: “It’s hard not to think ‘death drive’ every time I go on the Internet,” she writes. “Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me.”
internet  zombies  zombie-apocalpyse  modems-eat-my-braiiiins 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Musematic » ROFL…just read this facebook post from my friend Becca
Becca: Hey, I just saw this thing on the television, it’s called the “news” or something like that-these people sit there and read stuff that’s been on the internet for days already. Has anyone seen this? I hear they talk about the weather too, but I left before finding out.
television  internet  news  future 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
politics  internet  journalism  newspaper  hyper-fricking-local  the-late-age-of-print 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
politics  internet  media  journalism  newspapers  print  the-late-age-of-print 
july 2009 by vielmetti
The New “Freedom” | Front Porch Republic
You might even call it “utopic” in Thomas More’s wry sense: a seemingly good or perfect place which is really no place at all. Computers displace us. They displace us physically - they enable us to talk to anyone, anywhere, and so forth - but they also displace us emotionally and intellectually. They confuse and distract us.
osx  freedom  internet  get-off-the-internet  dystopia 
june 2009 by vielmetti
LiveJournal: The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known for its users' weird obsessions — like the troublesome clique of Harry Potter erotica writers, whose outré tastes ran afoul of LiveJournal's efforts to comply with U.S. child-pornography laws. (Oddly, the site also gained a following in Russia, which led to its acquisition by Sup.) All that adds up to an environment even more distasteful to advertisers than the typical social site.
internet  russia  livejournal  web-two-point-naught  warning:back-up-your-livejournal 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Managing internet growth - at ZDNet.co.uk
the internet is growing by one zomgabyte a year, will we keep up?
death-of-the-net-predicted  internet  growth  zomg 
january 2009 by vielmetti
InternetNews Realtime IT News - Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control
stop reading this bookmark and GET BACK TO WORK YOU SLACKER. "Columnist David Brooks, commenting in the Dec. 16th New York Times about Malcolm Gladwell's latest book called "Outliers," made a statement as profound as it was accurate: "Control of attention is the ultimate individual power," he wrote. "People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them."
internet  productivity  attention  gladwell  malcolm  brooks  david  ooh-shiny 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Pew Research Center: Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It
# The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
internet  future  2008  survey  mobile  mobility  party-like-its-2020 
december 2008 by vielmetti
America is losing its position at the centre of the internet, according to a new study by TeleGeography Research | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"The US used to be a primary hub for many regions," said Eric Schoonover, a senior analyst at TeleGeography. "A lot of data still comes through the US, and a lot of content there is served out to other countries … but its importance is declining, though it has by no means gone away."
internet  topology  telegeography  neogeography  schoonover  eric 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Cass R. Sunstein: The Daily We
Second, the public forum doctrine allows speakers not only to have general access to heterogeneous people, but also to specific people, and specific institutions, with whom they have a complaint. Suppose, for example, that you believe that the state legislature has behaved irresponsibly with respect to crime or health care for children. The public forum ensures that you can make your views heard by legislators simply by protesting in front of the state legislature building.
public-forum-doctrine  internet  politics  diversity  sunstein  sunstein  cass 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Cass Sunstein: "Republic.com 2.0" | Salon News
What gets lost in these polarized times, Sunstein writes, are traditional civic virtues like civility, self-criticism and open-mindedness. He uses experiments and statistical analyses to back that up: One study of hyperlinking patterns on the Web shows that political bloggers rarely highlight opposing opinions -- of 1,400 blogs surveyed, 91 percent of links were to like-minded sites. A central problem, Sunstein argues, is that Americans now think of themselves more as consumers than as citizens. When it comes to the Internet, we demand the right to reinforce our own beliefs without embracing the responsibility to challenge them.
internet  politics  sunstein  sunstein  cass  diversity  echo-chamber 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The Day The Web Went Dead - Forbes.com
Angry calls from customers began to flood both companies, and it quickly became clear that Sprint had made a grave strategic error. In the unlikely event that Cogent caved completely, Sprint stood to gain $1.5 million or so in annual revenue, which would add .004% to the company's $40 billion in annual revenue. The downside was vastly higher. Sprint is first and foremost a wireless company, deriving only 6% of its revenues from its Internet division. Sprint's future relies on attracting high-paying broadband wireless customers--and it was those customers who were all cut off from part of the Internet as a result of its fight with Cogent.
internet  peering  spring  cogent  dont-depeer-me-bro 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Untitled 1 - Boing Boing
Untitled 1
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 24, 2008 2:16 PM | permalink
internet  socialmedia  funny  boingboing  meta  so-meta-it-hurts 
december 2008 by vielmetti
SourceMac
FStream is a little WebRadio listener/recorder software.
music  osx  internet  radio 
november 2008 by vielmetti
When you don't want to be Facebook friends - Digital Life- msnbc.com
Then there’s the issue of real friends versus online friends. Take Hal Niedzviecki of Toronto, who wrote about his experience throwing a “Facebook party” for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He invited his nearly 700 online friends to meet him at the neighborhood bar. One showed up.
internet  facebook  socialmedia  be-my-frend-pleez  not-clear-on-the-concept 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Daddy, Where's Your Phone? - O'Reilly Radar
Kamla Bhatt was busting my chops about the same subject when I did an interview with her last week for Mint, the Indian business site. "Tim, you don't talk enough about mobile!" she said. "In India and around the world, there is a whole new generation that accesses the internet, and they have never seen a PC. To them, it's all on their phone."
internet  mobile  cloud  search  bhatt  kamla  bhatt  india  future 
november 2008 by vielmetti
CodeMash 2009
CodeMash v2.0.0.9 will be held from 7-9 January 2009. We'll be gathering once more at the Kalahari Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio. Check in opens the evening of the 6th. Day 0 of CodeMash, 7 January, is an optional day for our CodeMash Precompiler – a day jam-packed with hands-on coding sessions and introductory tutorials to all major platforms. CodeMash’s normal sessions and open spaces will be held on the 8th and 9th. Our usual Day 0 discussion panel will be held on the evening of 7 January.
internet  web2.0  technology  conference  ohio 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Mobile Surveillance-A Primer - MobileActive Wiki
With cameras, GPS, mobile Internet come ever more dangerous surveillance possibilities, allowing an observer, once they have succeeded in gaining control of the phone, to turn it into a sophisticated recording device. However, even a simple phone can be tracked whenever it is on the network, and calls and text messages are far from private. Where surveillance is undertaken in collusion with the network operator, both the content of the communication and the identities of the parties involved is able to be discovered, sometimes even retrospectively. It is also possible to surreptitiously install software on phones on the network, potentially gaining access to any records stored on the phone.
internet  mobile  security  privacy  surveillance  i'll-be-watching-you 
november 2008 by vielmetti
2008 Internet Security Report | Security to the Core | Arbor Networks Security
Finally, the surveyed ISPs also said their vendor infrastructure equipment continues to lack key security features (like capacity for large ACL lists) and suffers from poor configuration management and a near complete absence of IPv6 security features. While most ISPs now have the infrastructure to detect bandwidth flood attacks, many still lack the ability to rapidly mitigate these attacks. Only a fraction of surveyed ISPs said they have the capability to mitigate DDoS attacks in 10 minutes or less. Even fewer providers have the infrastructure to defend against service-level attacks or this year’s reported peak of a 40 gigabit flood attack.
internet  security  ddos  opsec  netsec  infosec 
november 2008 by vielmetti
I Don’t Care About Your Personal Brand » The Buzz Bin
2) The only people who give a crap about personal brands are the personas trying to prop them up as a business model.
marketing  internet  socialmedia  backlash  who-are-you-i-really-want-to-know 
november 2008 by vielmetti
One Pixel Webcam
This project began with a desired to feel more connected with my environment and particularly with the daylight. By taking one sky-pixel from a webcam in my town and duplicating that colour periodically as my desktop I am continuously reminded of the outside world. My desktop colour changes with the sky.
internet  video  visualization  landscape  color  time  ambient 
november 2008 by vielmetti
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape « The Metric System
Regardless of how you feel about Together Dating’s industry or its methods, you have to appreciate their tremendous, low-profile marketing machine and the data-driven technological infrastructure that supports it. This company brings in 8 solid figures of revenue every year using nothing but yard signs, some parked domains, and a firm grasp of the data that drives their growth. CEO Paul Falzone explained the importance of such data in a recent interview.
blog  internet  marketing  advertising  lawn  signs  affiliate 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Ambiguous Panopticon: Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace
Is the Internet surveillant? Without question. But is the Internet surveillant after the manner of the panopticon? We cannot answer this question by means of sociological accounts that are simply interested in the government and corporate tendency to get to know us better through Internet spying, The panopticon does not use information just to know us; it also deploys information to create us, to constitute us as compliant workers and consumers. Essentially, if it is panoptic, the Internet must serve the same panoptic/enlightenment function of social control through a physical control of the body in space and a rhetorical control of the definition of subjectivity that other panoptic institutions do.
internet  surveillance  panopticon  pure-visibility  foucault  michel  netcrit  cyberspace  privacy  anonymity 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons.”
library  history  internet  digital  biodiversity  encyclopedia  encyclopédie  biodiversité  biologia  biodiversidade  biodiversite  biologie 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up
When I look back at the dotcom apocalypse that was 2000 - 2002, I realize some of the best companies I've ever been involved in were created during that time. In the midst of this, I remember the endless stream of "the Internet is over" and "the information technology business in now a mature business and there will never be innovation again." Yeah - whatever.
leadership  party-like-its-2001  vc  internet 
october 2008 by vielmetti
<nettime> Phil Agre: Building an Internet Culture
Each morning the technicians would come
to work, pick up their company vehicles, and drive to customers'
premises where photocopiers needed fixing; each evening they
would return to the company, go to a bar together, and drink beer.
Although the company had provided the technicians with formal
training, Orr discovered that they actually acquired much of their
expertise informally while drinking beer together.
beer  moar-beer  agre  phil  orr  julian  learning  culture  training  internet  brazil 
october 2008 by vielmetti
The New Internet Gatekeepers;Beware, David, the Goliath Providers Are Coming! - New York Times
"If people ask me, I tell them, 'Don't go into the Internet-access- provider business,' " said Smoot Carl-Mitchell, president of Zilker Internet Park, an independent Internet access company in Austin, Tex. "And I'm only half kidding." Zilker has almost 2,000 subscribers. / "It's not the field of dreams any more," said Edward M. Vielmetti of Ann Arbor, Mich., who in 1991 co-founded MSEN, one of the country's earliest access providers.
carl-mitchell  smoot  me  msen  internet  access  isp  party-like-its-1995  party-like-its-1991  i-love-the-sound-of-modems-in-the-morning 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Spinspotter
Spin doesn't belong in the news. It's like putting motor oil in the mojito. We have tremendous respect for journalists, but who would argue that the media circus isn't out of control? A full 66% of Americans think the press is one-sided. Now there's a website and software tool that exposes news spin and bias, misuse of sources, and suspect factual support. At SpinSpotter, you'll experience the news in a profound new way. Yes, the truth is back in town.
internet  politics  journalism  pr  the-toxic-black-mold-called-public-relations  spin  counterspin 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation
While little information has been made available by the governments negotiating ACTA, a document recently leaked to the public entitled "Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement" from an unknown source gives an indication of what content industry rightsholder groups appear to be asking for – including new legal regimes to "encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders in the removal of infringing material", criminal measures, and increased border search powers. The Discussion Paper leaves open how Internet Service Providers should be encouraged to identify and remove allegedly infringing material from the Internet.
eff  acta  civil-liberties  censorship  damage  route-around-it  internet 
september 2008 by vielmetti
mozdev.org - vimperator: index
vim mode for firefox; ok, now I found it, but do I want to actually use it?
productivity  internet  firefox  vim  plugin  vimperator 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle
Google differs from Microsoft in at least one very important way. The ends that Microsoft has pursued are commercial ends. It's been in it for the money. Google, by contrast, has a strong messianic bent. The Omnigoogle is not just out to make oodles of money; it's on a crusade - to liberate information for the masses - and is convinced of its righteousness in pursuing its cause. Depending on your point of view as you look forward to the next ten years, you'll find that either comforting or discomforting. This post draws on my article The Google Enigma, which was published last year in Strategy & Business.
google  internet  advertising  omnigoogle  information-wants-to-be-free-but-sponsored-by-advertising 
september 2008 by vielmetti
LIS 753 » Welcome to Internet Fundamentals & Design
library school class from michael stevens, readings and syllabus
library  blog  internet  library-school  lis  superpatron  via:mstephens7 
september 2008 by vielmetti
From Shifting to Warping - Our Future Connected to the "One" Machine - Blog on the Side - Darlene Fichter
Kevin Kelly talks about the first 5000 days of the Internet (yep it's only 5000 days old) and then looks at head 5000 days. He points out that we thought the Internet was going to be TV but only better at first. When we look at ahead 5000 days, it's going to be something much more and very different from today's Internet, only better. (Creative Commons licensed)
internet  future  kelly  kevin  ted  one-net-to-rule-them-all 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole | Threat Level from Wired.com
Ordinarily, this shouldn't work -- the data would boomerang back to the eavesdropper. But Pilosov and Kapela use a method called AS path prepending that causes a select number of BGP routers to reject their deceptive advertisement. They then use these ASes to forward the stolen data to its rightful recipients. "Everyone ... has assumed until now that you have to break something for a hijack to be useful," Kapela said. "But what we showed here is that you don't have to break anything. And if nothing breaks, who notices?"
internet  technology  ietf  bgp  oh-noes-bgp-woes  routing  defcon  vulnerability  protocol 
august 2008 by vielmetti
VoIP Watch: Who Says You Can't VoIP on Aircell, I just Did It
Phweet. Yup, the unfunded brainchild of pals Stuart Henshall and Mr. Blog David Beckemeyer (who I consider one of the true great minds in VoIP) made it happen. I invited Joanna, she replied and once I figured out how to get Phweet to answer (I had to use Safari, not Firefox) Joanna and I were having a lovely conversation while she was on an Aircell flight. I don't mean a five second hi, hello. I mean, a real conversation, as she held her Lenovo UMPC up to her face. I even heard the announcement from the flight attendants as she was about to land.
internet  technology  voip  airlines  phweet  flash 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web - Waxy.org
"But before we go too far, let's take a moment and have a look at just what the Internet is and what it takes to start surfing through Cyberspace. You may already be a net surfer and you may want to skip this section, but if you're just starting out, we suggest you spend a few minutes getting familiar with some of the most common Internet terms." Dig that mid-1990s design aesthetic. Grey background, huge 3D rendered header graphic, Times New Roman italic, centered text... It's 1995, all right.
history  internet  video  media  vhs  computerhistory  nethistory  party-like-its-1995 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples are attempts to censor a photograph, a file, or even a whole website, especially by means of cease-and-desist letters. Instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes quickly receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2] Mike Masnick said he jokingly coined the term in January 2005, “to describe [this] increasingly common phenomenon.”[3] The effect is related to John Gilmore's observation that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."[4]
wiki  history  internet  cyberculture  psychology  streisandeffect 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Topspin » David Byrne and Brian Eno Release Everything That Happens Will Happen Today On The Topspin Platform
Topspin basics: we’re a startup, just over a year old, offices in Santa Monica and San Francisco (connected by a killer, cost-effective video conf setup from our friends at LifeSize), mostly software engineers, building software to help artists make money. In the same way ProTools brought software solutions to music production, we seek to apply technology solutions for music marketing. Regardless of your opinion of the future of the music industry, I think we all agree the old way is not the new way and one “new way” hasn’t materialized yet.
byrne  david  eno  brian  music  internet  publishing  via:dugsong 
august 2008 by vielmetti
GOOLASH: anti-google firefox plugin
GOOLASH keeps you logged out from the search engine of Google, regardless of any other "G" services you might be using, like Gmail for example. GOOLASH keeps your web searches disassociated from your Google username, meaning that the results are not being filtered according to the profile Google has on you, neither the context of your requests is being attached to your persona. Doing some trickery with cookies GOOLASH cuts the tentacles of monstrous corporation away from your brain and CPU. Say NO to augmented reality of Google empire, embrace unfiltered content!
google  goolash  search  internet  firefox  privacy  plugin  hack  useful  search-engine-dependency-syndrome 
august 2008 by vielmetti
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The imperatives of the link economy
There is a crying need for advertising infrastructure and networks to help the recipients of links monetize them.
blog  links  internet  journalism  making-money  not-making-money  race-to-the-bottom 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Death of Free Internet is Imminent
yet another death-the-net story, this from Canada re cable regulatorium
internet  privacy  netneutrality  death-of-the-net-predicted  film-at-11  canada  regulatorium 
july 2008 by vielmetti
OneWebDay » Archive » Edward Vielmetti
Our 29th ambassador is Edward Vielmetti of Ann Arbor, Michigan, talking about access to the Internet in public places and the digital divide on his personal blog, Vacuum. You can find his post in its original context here.
internet  one-web-day  onewebday  civic-information-infrastructure  wireless-washtenaw  wireless-ypsi  a2b3 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Everyone should (link)blog
Linkbloggers also need to study how to craft short headlines that boil down stories to their essence-- hardly anybody has even recognised the importance of this
delicious  design  internet  nethistory  links  blog  blogging  culture  futurism  media  headlines  craft  cruft  linkblog 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Baby’s First Internet - The Morning News
It doesn’t matter what you say / just publish it twelve times per day.
comics  funny  humor  internet  toread  ha-ha-only-serious 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
That’s the attraction of the SEO / SEM world. They’re not respected by true hackers, but they are huge, and they come in and destroy communities like reddit.
seo-destroys-community  death-of-the-net  film-at-11  death-by-success  community  culture  internet  media 
july 2008 by vielmetti
The Internet dies a little bit | MetaFilter
DEATH OF THE NET PREDICTED, FILM AT 11
funny  internet  sad  usenet  papa-whats-film  party-like-its-1993 
june 2008 by vielmetti
John Perry Barlow: What Are We Doing On-Line? (pdf)
"with the development of the Internet, and with the increasing pervasiveness of communication between networked computers, we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire"
party-like-its-1995  via:kk  essay  internet  we-brought-you-this-fire  why-are-you-sitting-around-typing 
may 2008 by vielmetti
wired "net surf" for 1993
and we were excited about what? back then
history  internet  party-like-its-1993  gopher 
may 2008 by vielmetti
The Future Without IPv6 - Vox
the future of IPv6 is shortages and ever more creative reuse (and resale) of IPv4 address space.
ipv6  internet  future  rfc  standards 
may 2008 by vielmetti
The naysayer’s timeline of technology in the workplace.
Whenever someone doesn't want to adopt a new technology, and doesn't want to think very hard about why, the common questions they post are: "What's the ROI? What's the use case? Who else is doing it?"
business  culture  internet  dr-no  just-say-no  bad-idea  dont-go-there  trailing-indicator  no  no-no  no-no-1000-times-no  corporate 
may 2008 by vielmetti
Ethan Zuckerman: the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes | Berkman Center
Ethan goes back to the 1960s for digital community; unspoken is 100 years prior of communities collected by telegraph lines.
internet  history  communication  telegraph  the-past-didnt-go-anywhere 
may 2008 by vielmetti
Why Are Resources Free On The Internet?
Back in 1992, one of the answers was "we haven't figured out how to bill for them yet". Note the ethos of a bygone day.
party-like-its-1992  internet  nethistory  billing 
march 2008 by vielmetti
The Internet? Bah! | Newsweek.com
HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA. Cliff Stoll rant.
rant  party-like-its-1995  usenet  nethistory  internet  culture  cyberspace 
march 2008 by vielmetti
First Nation in Cyberspace - TIME - 1993
"It's a perfect Marxist state, where almost nobody does any business," says Farber. "But at some point that will have to change."
oh-boy-did-it-change  internet  nethistory  party-like-its-1993  advertising  marketing 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Waxy.org: Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
Lately, I've started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s. While most of these are pretty corny -- think Gabe and Max's Internet Thing -- they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don't exist anywhere else
internet  vhs  party-like-its-1995  nethistory  losing-my-edge-to-the-kids  i-was-there 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt
You could regard this as a sad development — the whole Brand Called You meme brought to its grim apotheosis. But haven't our lives always been a little bit public and stage-managed? Small-town living is a hotbed of bloglike gossip
grim-apotheosis  brand-you  identity  gossip  internet  meta 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Assistive Media | About us
Assistive Media works to heighten the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards for people with disabilities by providing free, copyright-approved, high-caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community. The internet enables
internet  audio  free  recordings  assistivemedia  assitive  disability  mp3 
january 2008 by vielmetti
InformIT: Introduction to the Border Gateway Patrol > Exterior and Interior Gateway Protocols
The design on the napkin was expanded to three hand-written sheets of paper from which the first interoperable BGP implementation was quickly developed. A photocopy of these 3 sheets of paper now hangs on the wall of a routing protocol development area at
bgp  internet  routing  design  nsfnet  1990  cisco  yakov  three-napkins-protocol 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Hans-Werner Braun biography
He became very involved in the early stages of the NSFNET networking efforts, and was a Principal Investigator for the NSFNET backbone project since the 1987 NSFNET award to Merit. While being Principal Investigator, the NSFNET backbone became the core in
hwb  nsfnet  1987  internet  nethistory  bio  hans-werner-braun  merit  annarbor  michigan 
november 2007 by vielmetti
: Re: more interesting features of 4.2
The NSF Network Technical Advisory Group (NTAG), which serves as advisor to NSF staff on network issues in general, including gateways for the explosively growing NSF Internet community, created an ad-hoc subcommittee to establish a first cut at Internet
nsfnet  architecture  ntag  1985  1986  nsf  internet  nethistory  design 
november 2007 by vielmetti
RFC 985 - Requirements for Internet gateways - draft. National Science Foundation, Network Technical Advisory Group.
While it applies specifically to National Science Foundation research programs, the requirements are stated in a general context and are believed applicable throughout the Internet community.
rfc985  rfc  nsfnet  architecture  internet  design  1985  nethistory 
november 2007 by vielmetti
BBC NEWS | Technology | Illuminating the net's Dark Ages
But history has failed to document this transitional period in any detail. Dr Doug Gale, president of Information Technology Associates, in Montana, is devoting his spare time to filling in the gaps.
blog  history  internet  technology  nsfnet  nethistory  party-like-its-198x  doug-gale 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Fundamental design issues for the future Internet
The Internet has been a startling and dramatic success. Originally designed to link together a small group of researchers, the Internet is now used by many millions of people. However, multimedia applications, with their novel traffic characteristics and
1995  internet  nethistory  netfuture  retrofuturism  nsfnet  shenker 
november 2007 by vielmetti
NYSERNet:About:
In June 1985, a meeting of representatives of New York State’s leading academic institutions convenes at Cornell University to discuss the creation of a statewide electronic network to connect New York’s major research universities and corporations to
nysernet  nsfnet  history  1985  newyork  internet  nethistory 
november 2007 by vielmetti
The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web | Nemertes Research
we assumed that users had consumed, or would consume, a certain amount of bandwidth, and that the rate of change of that bandwidth consumption was the metric that mattered, rather than the specific portfolio of applications
internet  research  bad-assumptions  bad-conclusions 
november 2007 by vielmetti
dux07 - conference on designing for user experience
i'll be speaking there
2007  chicago  conference  community  conferences  culture  design  ethnography  event  internet  technology  user  ux 
october 2007 by vielmetti
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