Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve been test driving Flock tonight. If you don’t know what Flock is I don’t blame you. I’d imagine that unless you were on the cusp of social networking (and if you are you have my condolences) that you’ve never heard of it. Here is how the company behind Flock describes themselves:
Flock is a […]
Posted in The Day Job, Opinion, Web Development on Aug 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I’m going to violate the cardinal rule of blogging in that I’m going to link to an article that is 17 days old. I know! It is horrifying! I am dropping all pretense of trying to make people believe I’m on the cutting edge of some arbitrary meme and instead I’m going to talk about […]
Posted in Opinion, Web Development on May 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
Something that really caught my attention today was part one of a two part Ideas episode on Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Titled Flesh and Stone, it discusses Sennetts’ ideas on how culture influenced city planning and how city […]
Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Apr 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
While meditating on the catastrophe that is the current state of Twitter, I am faced with the realization that online communities are for the most part terrible.
First and foremost is the horrific siloing of personal content - instead of thoughts, ideas, images, and memes percolating across the internet in some liberated existential sense you end […]