What US Game Developers Need to Know about Free-to-Play in China.
Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?
How David Bowie and the Grateful Dead predicted the arc of internet influence.
Twitter as performance; Dean Allen ruminates on the end of an experiment.
Mutually escalating aggression is more than just plain old ‘internet trolling’.
Five percent of malformed data packets on the internet cannot be explained - they cannot be traced to tampering or software and hardware glitches. Is this evidence that the internet is evolving…
We are threatened. In lieu of having the time or mental obduracy to eloquently express this stream of thoughts in essay or article form, I'll just jot down a summary of related themes. Hopefully…
From Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?, which discusses the declining value of blog comments and social news sites: A funny thing about these sites is that they know about this problem.…
Really? I expected better from such a radical thinker as Jaron Lanier. His recent op-ed in the NYT is just not making any sense at all. Traditionally, artists, writers, musicians have been at…
Verizon decides to act against its own economic best interests and block messages from an abortion rights group. This kind of discrimination sets a troubling precedent.
“Only the largest enterprises will be able to justify owning and operating their own servers.”
Trapped in the Neue Zealand ghetto region, and can't even fly to Auckland at the moment, let alone San Diego... But I'm keenly interested in a couple of presentations in particular: Firstly,…
The huge amount of public anticipation and scrutiny of their activities is not going to be particularly helpful.
The playing-field of Twitter annotations and the challenge to the developer community.
Interview with a Nigerian email scammer.
“We decided what MySpace would become. They set up a social networking platform, but we as users decided to use it as a music platform.”
What do people actually mean when they define their content as “noncommercial”, and release it under a NC license?
Thanks to Mathew and Bronwyn, the Creative Freedom Foundation is here: The Creative Freedom Foundation launches today in New Zealand to unite artists who are against the removal of New Zealander's…
People think that it is strange that someone like me who knows so much about programming languages chooses to program in PHP so frequently. They're probably right, and I appreciate where…
Recently, I've been talking a lot about freeing the internet in Wellington by spreading excess bandwidth from various 'net connections across a city-wide mesh. But this is a best case scenario compared…
I found people remarkably free in talking about politics. Mostly I talked to geeks, of course; they laughed at the Great Firewall (finding a proxy to get around it is no big deal) but were livid…
There's a lot that could be said about emerging products like RedTacton: Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human…
People are starting to wise up to the distortions of bubble math surrounding the recent rush of interest in socially oriented websites steaming ahead under the banner of Web 2.0, but it is interesting…
What is Yahoo! doing? That's the question asked by Greg Yardley, responding to recent talk about a pyramid of content creation, which he argues, shows how Yahoo's design decisions are being pushed…
How to leverage the power of personal websites to share private information with your direct personal contacts.
Not everyone understands scaling for the masses.
Rethink the expectation that people will use a service for that which it is intended.
I feel like my web skills have been swept out from underneath me. You go away for a few months, and come back, and everything has changed so much.
I have to ask this - what the fuck does social media actually mean? Given that most of the parrots harping this are probably completely unaware of basic tenets of sociology, it still doesn't seem…
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. - John Gilmore Interesting recent developments in the ongoing war of perception. Now, Australian ISP's are refusing to take part…
Silverstripe is powering the Democratic National Convention website. The site has survived a maelstrom of traffic, peaking at well over 700 unique visitors per second, not to mention an additional…
The future lies in making networks happen. Last month, respected security technologist Bruce Schneier explained why you would want to share your Wi-Fi bandwidth. It's not nearly as wrong as it sounds. To…
Rowan has posted a summary of the Trade Me Manifesto, which in turn, was influenced by Google's Corporate Philosophy. Much of it should be plain common sense, except for the fact that so many…
Is the popularity of Twitter best explained using the psychology of addiction and gambling?
Clay Shirky on moderation strategies: Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding…