Ryan said: Clifford Stoll's 1995 predictions included "...no computer network will change the way government works." Quote:
What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading.Added: February 23, 2010 at 3:08PM EST
Ryan said: Jolie O'Dell's notes from the incredibly weird ReadWriteWeb thread that briefly held the top search result for "Facebook login," leading scores of confused users to complain about the changes Facebook had made. When they logged in at RWW. Quote:
A ton of the confused commenters scrolled down far enough to find the Facebook Connect button for logging into the comments section - as evinced by the fact that their Facebook profiles were then linked to their comments.Added: February 11, 2010 at 2:52PM EST
Ryan said: I continue to be fascinated by the busy intersections where the physical world and the Internet overlap. Here's a solid roundup of products making that happen in 2009. Quote:
This trend has added a significant amount of new data to the Web, so for that reason alone it is an important development.Added: December 9, 2009 at 7:14AM EST
Ryan said: Fred Wilson mulls over something that should make sense to anyone who's taken a basic mass communication theory class or two: Links passed to us by our friends might lead to more valuable traffic than links found in search results. Added: August 27, 2009 at 7:15AM EDT
Ryan said: Mark Cuban's notes on how WebHooks and PubSubHubBub are about to drastically speed up the flow of information through the Internet itself. Added: August 27, 2009 at 6:58AM EDT
Ryan said: Ernesto Priego responding to an Andrew Keen piece in The Telegraph points out something important about all the easy celebrity Internet success stories like Radiohead and Trent Reznor: "The problem with using them as paradigms of the new digital cultural economy is a fundamental one: none of them started out and made their financial and artistic success in the digital economy." Added: August 27, 2009 at 6:54AM EDT
Ryan said: In which Alesh lets loose one of the secrets of the Internets: They're made of people. (Wait, so is Wikipedia.) Added: August 24, 2009 at 5:32PM EDT
Ryan said: Notes on possible futures for staying anonymous on the Web: "In the event of a redesign of Internet architecture, Wright argues, proxies that help preserve anonymity could be built in. He envisions working with ISPs to determine points in the network where the proxies would be effective both in terms of protection and performance." Added: August 11, 2009 at 11:00AM EDT