Current Events involving the internet
Over the weekend I have been looking around at a lot of social websites, largely due to the fact that I have really enjoyed Twitter. I have found a lot of good ones and bad ones, and a lot of cool uses for sites. I thought I would sum up some of the better social…Continue readingSocial Websites
Call me an April Fool’s Scrooge, but this has got to be my least favorite event of the year. At one time I am sure it was supposed to be a holiday of good fun, but now it is just plain annoying (for good fun call speak like a pirate day).Continue readingApril Fool’s nonsense
About a year ago or maybe more, I had started a site whose purpose was to provide the EQ2 community with current news on the status of the game. Part of this was because most of the news out there was fairly bad and ill-reported.Continue readingEQ2-Daily Props
I was an early adopter of Amazon.com. I was one of those people who in the mid-90s was looking for a way to monetize his site, even if it was just a little and at the time, the only real thing to do with sites is to throw the Link Exchange banner up (a service…Continue readingAmazon.com’s fall
I have been a long time reader and user of Digg.com. I have had apps on my homepages for years to get the latest stuff off of Digg. The idea is great, allow users to choose what news stories are actually worth looking at and which ones aren’t. However, over the last few months I…Continue readingWhy Digg.com has become irrelevant
I recently heard of a comedy troop called Improv Everywhere. What they do is go around in public and have these artificial scenes. They do have some that require just a few people, but I think the really good ones involve a large number of people. One example is they took something like 60 people…Continue readingImprov Everywhere: We Cause Scenes