November 2011
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Misc. links Oct 15th - Nov 24th
The Internet as Hyperbole - A Critical Exhamination of Adoption Rates by Gisle Hannemyr is a paper with compelling arguments against the popular perception that people adopted the Internet much faster than other new communication technologies such as radio or television. The demonstration much ICT policy is based on a meme-ified anedocte makes this a compelling read. ¶
Neal Stephenson on...
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The Social Graph is Neither →
Maciej Ceglowski explains the obvious: no computer metadata scheme can ever represent the relationships between humans with any sort of accuracy. I like the notion that social graphs inevitably fall into a kind of Uncanny Valley.
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“I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is...”
– Drake on Tumblr - Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word. (via The New Aesthetic)
Agreed. But still, Tumblr allows users to post original content, and even backpedalled on that ill-advised Tumblarity experiment (a popularity contest won by whoever ‘liked’ and ‘reblogged’ the most)....
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Little details: the menu bar
One of the things I find most satisfying while designing/developing a website is implementing those small, almost imperceptible details that can mean Quality, the Web equivalent of sophisticated stitching in clothing, and which to me feels like a particularly nice click must feel to a master watchmaker. So today, as I made a few small tweaks to this website (meaning this one, Tumblr-folk) -...
