Podcasting Needs More White Men Talking Trash About About Science Fiction
Let’s celebrate the launch of every podcast; the more shows out there, the more chance you’ll find something spectacular.
Category: Web 2.0 (Observations)
Who Would You Have Chosen To Take On Classified Ads If Not Craig Newmark?
If not Craig Newmark, who would you have preferred to run what we know as ‘Craigslist’?
Where Are Your Memories Of MySpace?
MySpace has confirmed that music uploaded to the service between 2003 and 2015 has been lost, with no hope of recovery. Did you all keep a backup?
Examining The Warren Antitrust Proposals
Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google are not the 21st century Ma Bells in need of breaking up.
Cloud Data Only Works If You Trust The Cloud
Your data may be in the cloud, but can you safely export it? As another services closes, isn’t it time you should check?
Microsoft Bob, the spiritual great-grandfather of Siri?
The Guardian’s Ben Beaumont-Thomas talks to the team inside Microsoft who developed Comic Sans, and while the big takeaway is that the font was inspired by ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ is this little gem to rewrite history: My job was to match products to fonts, sort of like a marriage broker. Comic Sans was designed for Microsoft Bob, which in many ways was a precursor to Cortana or Siri – for people who had problems with computers. Presumably the Office Paperclip heralded Alexa?
