Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

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

Blogging trains one to be stupid    (2014.02.02)

Baldur Bjarnasson: “Blog readers are the worst kind of reader in the world. They arrive eager to misunderstand and ready to be angry with you”

‘Frank’ed    (2013.11.30)

Frank is back, as “a glorified blog”