Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

Numbers, like his expertise, start at 0 for Jeer Heet    (2014.11.08)

“Twitter essays” are a failure, but let’s not tell Jeet Heer that

Tilde Club    (2014.10.17)

Paul Ford’s Tilde Club: Which would you prefer – an iPhone or feeding dimes into a payphone that cannot receive calls?

BlockTogether    (2014.10.11)

Block Together combines and aggregates the task of blocking abusers on Twitter

Elon Green, literati’s cyberbully    (2014.10.11)

The social-justice warrior’s cries of sexism do not justify worsening actual health or threatening human life

“I make a good living”    (2014.10.10)

“I make a good living,” John Gruber says. Yes – half a million a year, I estimate

Young journos’ technical incompetence    (2014.09.25)

Twitter isn’t journalism. Take heed, near-defamer Karen 8 K. Ho. (January 2015: Now with belated response from her)

Correcting Alexis Madrigal    (2014.08.27)

“E-mail is still the best thing on the Internet” if you’re using Eudora and you aren’t top-posting. In other words, it isn’t

More rewriting of gay history    (2014.08.27)

soc.motss was not ever an “LGBTQ Internet space,” David Auerbach