Web Access at 75 Percent
Wired News notes a recent Nielsen/NetRatings survey from February which shows that "74.9 percent of the population above the age of 2 and living in households equipped with a fixed-line phone, had...
View ArticleNew Web Protocol May Leave DSL in the Dust
From NewsFactor Network comes this news about a new standard to keep an eye on:BIC-TCP (binary increase congestion transmission control protocol) is a new data-transfer protocol that "makes today's...
View ArticleIntel hoping to begin WiMAX rollout in 2005
Ars Technica has a piece on Intel's new wireless standard and current problems with freeing up the spectrum for its use.But of more interest to me are the "proposed specs" for the standard:. . . speeds...
View ArticleI'll Take My Coffee...Errr...Business To Go
Only in an Internet, wifi-enabled world:Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is...
View ArticleWarning: The death of anonymous commenting on popular weblogs
Clancy's Drupal site, CultureCat, is down right now because comment spammers have effectively committed a DoS attack against the server. So many spam bots were attempting to post anonymous comments...
View ArticleDel.icio.us Fusion for Drupal
One day, looks like I'll have to get around to playing some with del.icio.us now that czarism.com notes that Benjamin Grant's del.icio.us module for Drupal is working very well.
View Articlede.lirio.us
Looks like there's an open source social bookmarking tool now to compete with del.icio.us:de.lirio.us
View ArticleComputers and Writing Online 2005 Conference
Kairosnews is hosting this year's Computers and Writing Online. CFP follows:CFP: Computers and Writing Online 2005When Content Is No Longer King: Social Networking, Community, and CollaborationDavid...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 articles
What would a writing for the web course be without some Web 2.0 readings? Tim O'Reilly's What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software is a good choice since...
View Article24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
This is a funny little clip which imagines 24 with 1994 communications technology. It's a little goofy, but makes its point :-)read more
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