The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen | Epicenter | Wired.com
Chris Anderson interviews Mark Andreessen.
Tags: internet
Internet! - Imgur
The Old Aesthetic.
timoni.org - I love the internet.
This is a beautifully heartfelt post from Timoni:
Every day, I feel things because of the internet, and that’s amazing. Humans have been using abstracted communication for thousands of years, but it’s never been so instantaneous, never so capable of bringing folks of completely different backgrounds together in conversation. This is a huge step. Good job us.
Coding Horror: Preserving The Internet… and Everything Else
A love letter to the Internet Archive.
Minimal Mac | TV Is Broken
A fascinating insight into the reaction of an internet-savvy child upon being exposed to “regular” television.
The world’s undersea internet cables - interactive | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Explore the shape of the underwater world of internet backbones.
Rhizome | She Was A Camera
Remembering the camgirl community.
A List Apart: Articles: Say No to SOPA
A superb piece of writing from Jeffrey, scorching the screen with righteous anger. THIS. IS. IMPORTANT!
SOPA approaches the piracy problem with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole internet in gasoline.
The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky
A thoughtful piece from Matt on the changes in cultural transmission that we should be embracing instead of bemoaning.
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet on Vimeo
If you live in the States, please, please, for the love of the internet, write to your representative at fightforthefuture.org/pipa
SPEED SHOW
I like this ad-hoc approach to staging one-night-only internet art shows:
Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night.
Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries - Smashing Magazine
There are some inaccuracies and misrepresentations in here, but on the whole this is a pretty good round-up of your options when dealing with responsive design in older browsers.
Open science: a future shaped by shared experience | Education | The Observer
A nice summation of the open science movement, courtesy of Bobbie.
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore | romkey.com
A comprehensive look at some of the problems with taking self-hosting to its logical conclusion: running your own web server.
Tom Morris - .tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic
If I were an American, I’d now be saying something like “ICANN have jumped the shark”. Instead, I’m British, so I’ll say “ICANN are fucking useless twats who need a firm kick in the bollocks”.
Alex Payne — Content-Centric Networks and the Future of the Internet
A brave and probably unpopular stance; could it be that the fundamental technological bedrock of the internet needs to change to avoid the seemingly-inevitable rise of walled gardens?
Wired 9.03: Founding Father
Here’s a gem from the past: a thoroughly fascinating and gripping interview with Paul Baran by Stewart Brand. It’s thrilling stuff—I got goosebumps.
Safe-keeping - Preoccupations
I wish I had a teacher like David when I was in school.
URLs, permalinks, archives … preservation. It all matters so very much.
I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed - Core77
Don Norman bemoans the seemingly-inevitable direction that the internet is taking; from an open system of exchange to a closed, controlled broadcast channel. I share his fear.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A 12-Year-Old Explains the Information Age’s Facts of Life to Her Mother.
Cute.
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2010 — Page 8
How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?
BUY THIS SATELLITE - Connect Everyone.
This is an excellent idea: buy up a communications satellite and use it to provide free internet. I kinda wish it were a Kickstarter project though.
Long Live the Web: Scientific American
An inspiring State Of The Web address by Tim Berners-Lee. He can't resist pitching linked data at the end, but it's mostly a stirring call to arms.
How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)
An entertaining missive from the future.
I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind? (1) - By James Sturm - Slate Magazine
James Sturm outlines his plan to give up the internet, which sounds like a good decision for him. Comments are open via snail mail.
This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing
This is a pithy one-sentence description of a blog post, praising the author's insight.
The Paciello Group Blog » Google Chrome frame - accessibility black hole
Using Google Chrome Frame in IE will give users of assistive technology the same shitty to non-existent experience they would get in the actual Google Chrome browser.
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Much Ado About IE6
Trammell outlines the thoughtful, research-based approach that Digg will be taking in phasing out IE6 support.
Meme Scenery - Waxy.org
There's something haunting about this: the physical settings of internet memes with the protagonists removed.
Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage | Technology | guardian.co.uk
A superb call to arms on the importance of "fat pipe, always on, get out of my way."
Persuading Microsoft to Implement Canvas « Processing.js Blog
The 26 step process required to add +1 to a feature request in IE. Franz Kafka is alive and well and living in Redmond.
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com
A sobering article on the cost of being a truly global website. This gives some context to Last.fm's recent pricing model decision.
Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
There goes your day.
Our Goal: No Guilt Upon Accusation Law — Creative Freedom Foundation (creativefreedom.org.nz)
New Zealand is enacting one of the most draconian unfair ISP policing policies in the Western world. "Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes Guilt Upon Accusation and forces the termination of internet connections and websites without evidence, without a fair trial, and without punishment for any false accusations of copyright infringement."
Us Now - Home
A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.
isolani - Web Standards: IE8 Blacklist: forcing standards rendering opt-in
Bend over 'cause Microsoft is about to stick it to us standards-savvy developers. Again.
Anna Pickard: Why is the idea of online friendships still treated with such disdain? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
A lovely article from Anna on friendship and the internet.
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register
Håkon is not happy with the default settings in IE8. Deep in the preferences, "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked.
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky's talk at the Web 2.0 Expo — how contributing to the Web allows to use our intelligence far better than watching TV.
Internet People
I get about 50-60% of these memes.
The End of the Internet
I did it! I did it! I knew all that surfing would finally pay off.
Tim Berners-Lee Quote'o'matic - fictitious quote generator
Writing a presentation on web accessibility? Tired of the usual "The power of the web..." quote?
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | This is a bubble that won't burst
"Not only did the head of Waterstone's underestimate the internet. Even Rupert Murdoch was caught out"
Valid downlevel-revealed conditional comments | 456 Berea Street
Keep this one handy in case you have to use conditional comments to hide something from Internet Explorer.
Berners-Lee on the read/write web
An interview with Tim Berners-Lee. He likes blogs.
It's a whole new internet
An inspiring essay by Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path. The internet is back.