I’m not wild about list posts. Apparently I’m the only one, because I’ve never heard anybody else complain about them, and blogs great and small are overflowing with “ten ways to [whatever]” posts. They’re generally quite popular, too. Frankly, I think they’re a symptom of laziness on the part of writers and readers alike. But I… [Read more…]
June 21, 2009
It was sheer delight translating Claire Ulrich’s article Les Censeurs du Net, originally published in Le Monde 2. In Internet history, 1994-2004 was the era of the pioneers. 2004-2007 was the era of the merchants. Now we’re entering the era of the bullies. Everywhere in the world, sites are going dark, arrests are increasing, more… [Read more…]
May 12, 2009
Google is messing with my reality and that is simply unacceptable. A while back I noticed that, more and more often, my searches were returning a lot of junk that was unrelated to what I was looking for. I have concluded that Google thinks I’m an infant. Or a moron. I google some weird stuff… [Read more…]
February 6, 2009
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, right? Maybe not so much on the Web, where our olfactory senses don’t do us much good. When you name your startup zlignob, you’re playing a dangerous game. Some people try to compensate for the meaningless signifier… [Read more…]
February 16, 2010
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