One of the traditions from the old site was to give an end-of-the-year review that would focus of the issues surrounding computer-mediated communication, cyberculture, or some tangent of those themes and what I thought might happen in the upcoming year regarding those concerns. I thought it would be a good...
Since Merlin Mann wanted something to appear when they Google “sextodecimestrial,” I figured the least I could do was help. During the 16 months that I have been planning and organizing this website, I haven’t really taken the time to review the work I’ve done. That’s all. Yes, I feel better after...
January 18, 2012 will be best remembered for the “blacking out of the web” as several of the core business of the Internet have either decided to blackout the site (e.g., reddit.com) or black out their logo (e.g., google.com). The focus of the outage has been the Stop Online Piracy...
Thanks to one of my good friends, I have had a chance to review the newest online social network service by Google called Google Plus. For the most part, I have enjoyed the simple way the Google Plus allows users to organize and maintain a conversation. I have posted a...
Net neutrality has been called the "free market issue" of the Internet. It also represents an issue with a lot of discussion and a few rational solutions. Proponents of this issue (e.g., Google) who want all bits of data to be given equal weight are weary of the agencies that...
It would seem that a good portion of the coverage this month has revolved around the release of the new Google Nexus One phone and the rumored Apple Tablet that may be released at the end of the month. It would seem that there would be a stronger focus on...
I was made first aware of the WolframAlpha project by a couple of colleagues who were looking into artificial intelligence and were impressed with this new search engine that could understand questions and respond with natural responses. As of right now, all search engines have a tough time with translating natural language...
The first barrier that any nanocelebrity must cross in order to expose themselves to the larger online community is to self-publish. If we are to believe that academics must “publish or perish,” then a person seeking to be a nanocelebrity must publish or never exist. This may be the most...
I talked with one of my friends, and I found out something shocking. I've had many computers. The majority of them have simply died on me (5 out of 9, what can I say? I'm hard on computers). However, another point that has come to light is that it was...
It seems that Apple, Microsoft, and Google are shying away from rigid, structured operating systems as the future of their respective companies. Apple and Microsoft have essentially spelled out that their next version of their OS (Snow Leopard and 7) would be the last traditional OS they would offer. Both...
