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Gee-ky!

From my friend David Levy’s signature: Blessed are the geeks, for they shall internet the earth.

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Internet Democracy

There’s been several “If X were a country” analogies, especially with MySpace as a target. But then: If the Internet was a country, it would be many times larger than the country of MySpace The...

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The Participating Minority

[Update: The original article was about traffic, not user base. Should have read more carefully. Doh!] Interesting stats about blogging and “viral participation” from Technorati’s Dave Sifry and...

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My Problem With Journalism

I hate having an axe to grind. Really, I do. “It’s unlike me.” When I notice that I catch myself grinding an axe, I “get on my own case.” I can be quite harsh with my own self. But I’ve been trained to...

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A Glocal Network of City-States?

This one should probably be in a fictive mode, maybe even in a science-fiction genre. In fact, I’m reconnecting with literature after a long hiatus and now would be an interesting time to start writing...

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Timeline of Apple’s Online Services

[I’d like people’s help in completing a timeline of Apple’s online services.] [Update: deleted the WordPress shortcode, which seems not to be working.] As kind of a followup to yesterday’s post about...

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Wearable Hub: Getting the Ball Rolling

Statement After years of hype, wearable devices are happening. What wearable computing lacks is a way to integrate devices into a broader system. Disclaimer/Disclosure/Warning For the past two months...

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Twenty Years Online

This month marks the 20th anniversary of my first Internet account. I don’t remember the exact date but I know it was in late summer 1993, right before what became known as “Eternal September”. The...

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Internet and Privilege

Part of what was going through my mind, writing that Internet nostalgia post, was the notion that my being granted Internet access in August of ‘93 was a privilege. Quite literally. By backing up my...

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