Recently several otherwise tech-savvy friends have been perplexed that I don’t just use Google for everything. They explain that I could use Google Voice for my U.S. phone number, use Google Checkout for The Mathematician’s Dice, sync my contacts and calendars through GMail, and log in to many things on the web using their OpenID service. And they wonder why I suffer a bit of spam instead of using GMail for my primary email account.
Tag Archives: internet culture
Cultivated play or cultivated players?
I’m not sure how much I buy it, but this scathing critique of Farmville is a must read.
Summon the Fail Whale
Who says print is dead?
Print media may have already crossed the Rubicon in its march past digital delivery towards obsolescence. But these interesting blog posts from 2008 collected into a 1,000-copy run of a print newspaper provide a nice counterpoint to the San Francisco Chronicle’s potential closure.
Newsflash
Last.fm: “Techcrunch are full of shit.”
In other breaking headlines today, the sky is blue, water is wet, and this is made from people.
Gratuitous staircases
Now a proud contributor to Stair Porn, the best picture blog ever.
Speaking of picture blogs, does anybody out there in internet-land have an invite to FFFFound.com that they’d be willing to give me (matt dash blog at theory dot org)?
Twitter and TechCrunch, sittin’ in a tree
I’m not at all suprised at Michael‘s discovery that when TechCrunch Says Jump, Twitterers Say How High?
Talking major trash about LiveJournal
This article and map of the “blogworld” has this to say about LiveJournal:
This blogging island is just barely in touch with the rest of the blogworld.
Them’s fightin’ words. You gonna take that lying down, LJ?