It’s funny to think that The Hampster Dance is 10 years old. If only Roger Miller could have lived to see the humble whistle stop he composed for the 1973 Disney Film Robin Hood become the most enduring of Internet phenomenons. In a hypertext world, a page staying in the same form for five minutes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘internet’
I can see you.
Recently it came to my attention that many people think that as long as they don’t comment, purchase anything, or actively participate on a web page, they leave nothing behind. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. When you pick up a book, you leave fingerprints on the page. When you walk through the woods, [...]
Web 2.0, schmoo point oh
I dislike jargon. It’s a silly human invention that generally doesn’t mean anything to anybody apart from marketing people trying to sell to the idiocracy. “Web 2.0″ is a term that has grated on me for some time, and I’ve decided it needs to be fired from our vocabularies. “Web 2.0″ means just about as [...]
Don’t Point. It’s Rude.
At least once a month I have to log into Facebook and un-tag pictures of myself. There is a segment of the Facebook population who feels that they are doing a public service by identifying every single person in every single photo they see. It never occurs to them that the people in the photos [...]
Saddle Up, Boys
Who said posses were a thing of the past?
The mainstream media is constantly reporting on the negative aspects of the Internet– that it is filled with pedophiles after you children, that it is lurking with identity theives after your social security number, and that it will fry your hard drive with a million Trojan horses. [...]