Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Is Your Job Too Dull? When I Write That, Do You Get It?
Posted by on Thursday, April 24, 2008 in - 7 comments
This is an interesting idea: a McLuhanesque unintended outcome of the information economy where widgets and robots do all the work. We are getting dulled by it all. Time was when the leisure society was the promise. A three day work week for a 1968 lifestyle. We were all to be driving off to go …
When Will Web 2.0 Be Over?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 in - 3 comments
For something that is supposed to be reflective of the new, "web 2.0" sure is getting long in the tooth. And, really, isn't it a bit passed it already? All it was supposed to mean was the responsive and chatty aspects of the internet - you know that aspect that was aways there but just not …
Bloggers As Journalists Revisited, This Time By The Law
Posted by on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
It is a wonderful thing to have an archive of your very own. A place to dip into the past and be reminded that just a few short years ago people seriously thought that blogging was going to replace journalism. Well, here we are in 2008 and the seeds sown may be bearing something unexpected - the …
Friday Bullets For Me, Me, Me!
Posted by on Friday, April 18, 2008 in - 10 comments
Because it's my birthday! Imagine - me, forty-five. Boy am I old. So old I bought black Doc Marten boots yesterday which I now consider my first mid-life crisis purchase. And it's gonna be sunny and warm today plus through the weekend. And it's Friday. And portland's showing for the weekend. And …
Friday Bullets On A Rainy April Morning
Posted by on Friday, April 11, 2008 in - 20 comments
Rain is one of the shocks of spring. When the last snows pass you think that is it, worst is over...and then you get flooding rains and lashing winds and making snow angels suddenly don't look all that bad. Garden report: onions survived the winter and are already up as are the chives. There is …
Friday Bullets In Under Eight Minutes
Posted by on Friday, April 4, 2008 in - 31 comments
That's what happens when you get up at 7:40 am. People think you work at blogging! Hah! • Years from now, we'll all laugh about political blogging as a flaky exercise and none will be laughed at as this sort of flake. I have this little idea: before you adhere to another's point of view, think …
Tim Berners-Lee Says He Wishes He Never Made Web
Posted by on Monday, March 17, 2008 in - 1 comment
Well, sorta. He did say he wishes he had kept to gardening and watching TV sports. OK, not really. But he did say this: • “Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited. "I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to …
Friday Bullets For Spring Forward Weekend
Posted by on Friday, March 7, 2008 in - 8 comments
Happy change of clocks weekend. Happy up to 50 cm of snow weekend, too. Fifty! That is 20 inches! Sunday, day of thrown out backs. And one less hour to get over it. • Chantal Hebert, still channeling Rene Levesque's shrug, has a good column in The Star on the unfortunately named NAFTA-gate …
Friday Bulllets For A Leap Day
Posted by on Friday, February 29, 2008 in - 19 comments
Who the hell decided leap day gets added to February? Why can't we have an extra long June? Why can't we have two Christmas Days? No, February that sucky whiner of a month needed the extra day. So here we are. Not in March. • Update: corroboration Cadmanesque? Are we now going to question a …
The Meme About Six Things
Posted by on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in - 6 comments
A meme! I haven't seen one of these things since 2005. Remember: it's pronounced me-me. Anyway, Jay tagged me for a little pre-Facebook nostalgia on this one: • “The Meme: Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.” • So here they are: • one: I only posts blog posts on odd …
