Tag: Internet

  • Making the Internet Fun Again

    I’ve been self­ish about how I share things online. When I was writ­ing reg­u­lar­ly as a crit­ic, wield­ing my blog like a bull­horn for what­ev­er I desired, I shared with near wreck­less aban­don on vir­tu­al­ly every plat­form at my dis­pos­al. Lately, I’ve turned inward, keep­ing cool arti­cles and ideas nes­tled snug­ly in Instapa­per, or worse, my…

  • My Digital New Year’s Resolutions

    I real­ly need to sort out how I use the Inter­net in 2009. It sounds crazy, but 2008 was a tri­al by ordeal for me as I tried more new web prod­ucts than I ever have before in an effort to bet­ter under­stand the work that’s being done out there, and to have opin­ions about…

  • Happy Birthday, Geekadelphia!

    If you’re a Philadel­phi­an and you’re not already read­ing Geekadel­phia, this would be a good rea­son to start. Why? They’ve just cel­e­brat­ed their one year anniver­sary as a blog, which is like a cen­tu­ry in blog years, at least accord­ing Hip­ster Runoff. These guys have been fill­ing the Fun Vam­pires void late­ly with lots of…

  • Facebook Blows My Mind

    A few weeks ago I start­ed writ­ing a post about how Web 2.0 fails folks like me. I’m glad I did­n’t pub­lish it. Why’d I draft it in the first place? Well, for peo­ple like me who were get­ting out of high school and into col­lege in the mid-nineties, just before the Inter­net went wild,…

  • MY FIRST iPHONE POST

    I thought I’d try the Word­Press app out now that iPhone 2.1 seems to have fixed the bug that kept me off of my home wi-fi network.