Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

Bookmarks that’ll get you banned on the new Delicious    (2011.05.08)

Delicious’s new owners’ terms of use will effectively ban gay males from linking to their own profiles. Wouldn’t that be illegal discrimination?

The Dick network    (2011.04.04)

Imagine a Deck network manqué serving one ad at a time to gay blogs. Think it’ll ever happen?

Most preposterous Australian sport could use some help    (2011.01.31)

Mr. HEATH SPENCE’s bobsleigh team needs a new site

Every happy Web developer is happy in the same way    (2011.01.25)

Bullish, on-message technology podcasts that treat people like the latest gadget defeat the purpose of inviting peole onto the show in the first place. Tech podcasts are a mutual admiration society I consider harmful

Question for Rob Walker: How much money does Boing Boing make?    (2010.12.30)

Why didn’t Rob Walker find out and document how much money Boing Boing makes? He already told us its “world” is “profitable”; why not prove it?

Gay book-review site Geocities itself    (2010.12.30)

J.M. Snyder is threatening to permanently delete 2,300 Rainbow Reviews entries six months from now

Wanted: Aussie developers for quixotic project    (2010.12.28)

A project down in Oz needs highest-calibre Web developers and designers

‘The Decline and Fall of E-mail’    (2010.12.20)

A veteran like Cringely must surely be aware that what corrupted E-mail was top-posting

‘Yahoo is a company that…’    (2010.12.17)

Mark Norman Francis wrote an excoriating sequence of Twits about Yahoo, preserved for posterity here