11 month ago
Andy Baio : Howard Rheingold on the rise and fall of The WELL - interesting to hear the community's trying to buy it
nelson : Rheingold on The Well - Nice reflection
#12 month ago
nelson : XOXO Festival - Great organizer, great time of year for Portland. I'm going!
Andy Baio : XOXO Festival is live! - I'm organizing a huge conference/festival in Portland this September with Andy McMillan; get your tickets quick!
#13 month ago
Andy Baio : Chinese hierarchies of snobbery and contempt - ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes
nelson : China: Hierarchies of Snobbery - Fascinating list of preferences for Internet services, films, etc in China
#23 month ago
nelson : mathowie article - MetaFilter founder and all around nice guy is featured in Portland's local alternarag
Andy Baio : Willamette Week's cover profile of Matt Haughey - with a nice Waxy.org shout-out; love the deep recursion in the comments
#23 month ago
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on the triumph of the animated GIF - the Internet's native art form
nelson : Homage to animated GIFs - Appreciation of a simple format
Anil : Animated GIFs Triumphant - "If you can make it here...", Jamie Beck, 2011 It's been 84 years since talkies began their march towards dominance over silent film. But while 1.3 billion people in the U.S. bought a ticket for a motion picture with sound last year, I'd estimate that 3.
#24 month ago
philgyford : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack sounds amazing. I always wanted to play a Spectrum game (I forget the name) that simulated hacking, never mind something this huge.
nelson : Telehack interview - Andy gets an interview with the anonymous creator of the retro Internet site
Andy Baio : Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all. It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet new
cobra libre : Andy Baio interviews the creator of Telehack [via] #
#28 month ago
Andy Baio : NYMag feature on the changing landscape of online porn - "we're living in a grand age of micro-smut, a burgeoning empire of lemonade-stand porn"
nelson : State of the porn market - Summary of how Internet porn sites are doing
#28 month ago
nelson : Egypt goes offline - How to remove a whole country from the Internet
Andy Baio : Egypt government shuts down all Internet access - "an action unprecedented in Internet history" [via]
#30 month ago
nelson : .p2p TLD - Group plans a peer to peer domain name system that can't be shut down
Andy Baio : BitTorrent-based DNS to counter P2P domain seizures - creating a .p2p TLD, with free domains administered by OpenNIC
#30 month ago
nelson : Google TCP tweaks - Evidence that Google may be running outside TCP spec to make connections faster
Simon Willison : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?. Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.
bmilleare : Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? - Interesting hack by Google and MS on the tcp slow-start algorithm to speed up http responses.
#31 month ago
nelson : mathowielove - A community's response when a loved member had a serious illness
Andy Baio : #mathowielove - archive of the tweets from Matt Haughey's brain tumor scare
#33 month ago
nelson : BGAN: satellite Internet - how to get Internet access from the ocean
Andy Baio : Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean - he's taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand
#34 month ago
nelson : Tips on buying design - Great description of how to hire a designer for your Internet project
Rod Begbie : Tips On Buying Design - Fab essay by Mike Monteiro. "It’s like buying a melon. Any sample the grocer is handing out won’t come from the melon you’re about to buy. And don’t buy on looks. To really know a melon you’ve got to squeeze it hard at the ends. Also, a melon a #
#34 month ago
Andy Baio : EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal - a sound legal analysis without the handwringing
nelson : EFF on Google / Verizon - An analysis of the net neutrality proposal
#36 month ago
nelson : OnLive review - Cloud gaming service actually works?
Andy Baio : Wolfire's review of OnLive - in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future
#37 month ago
Andy Baio : NYT's chart of Facebook privacy settings - privacy policy's longer than the US Constitution; also, the evolution of Facebook privacy
Greg Storey : An infographic that tried to explain Facebook's privacy policies. - What a mess. I won't miss it a bit. #
#37 month ago
nelson : Arabic TLDs - International domain names go live in a big way
Andy Baio : Non-Latin TLDs go live - time to register facebооk.com
#37 month ago
Andy Baio : Inc. Magazine's cover story on Tim O'Reilly - one of the most inspiring and thoughtful people I've ever met
nelson : Tim O'Reilly profile - Good article, but it misses two key things about Tim. He's very, very smart. And he's very generous with his intelligence.
#37 month ago
Andy Baio : Duke University to shut down historic Usenet server this weekend - Usenet was started by two Duke students in 1979; the official announcement says it's "unnecessary"
nelson : RIP news.duke.edu - Death of Usenet is a real thing these days
#38 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : pwnat - NAT to NAT client-server communication - pwnat - NAT to NAT client-server communication: very interesting...
nelson : pwnat: NAT traversal - Cleverly uses ICMP and UDP behaviour in consumer NAT routers to bridge a connection without any mediation
#41 month ago
Rod Begbie : namebench - Handy open source tool from Google to analyze DNS servers and see if it might be worth switching away from your ISP's default. [via] #
nelson : namebench - Benchmark DNS servers
#42 month ago
Andy Baio : Jason Louv argues that 4chan is the future of human consciousness - a dystopic take, but there's some truth in here, especially related to attention
deusx : Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine - "Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack,
#43 month ago
nelson : HTML history: IMG tag - Great little trip down 16 year old mailing list discussions
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element - told through annotated conversations from 1993 [via]
Milo Vermeulen : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] [via]
philgyford : Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark] - The history of the image element in HTML. A great bit of documenting internet history. (via Waxy)
#45 month ago
Greg Storey : Google introduces a new way to scan the news. - They might be on to something here. #
jcgregorio : Google Fast Flip - Wow, I just lost about an hour to Fast Flip. Very well done!
#48 month ago
Andy Baio : Shaun Inman releases Fever, an elegantly designed feedreader - PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity
Greg Storey : No matter how many times I asked, Shaun never gave me a access to Fever beta. - Despite his small error in judgement, Fever is awesome and will undoubtedly breathe new life into feeds.
Cameron Moll : Fever, a new feed reader from Shaun Inman - Fever°, a new feed reader from Shaun Inman, is "your slice of the web" mixed with Twitter Trending Topic-like personalization. "Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditi
philgyford : Fever° Red hot. Well read. - Self-hosted, pay-for feed reader. Looks like a lovely interface and an interesting way of organising feeds and posts. (via Daring Fireball)
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