Apr 17, 2019 I Want to Travel Back in Time so I Can Hang Out at This ’90s Internet Cafe I’m pretty sure this is what I imagined heaven looking like when I was in 9th grade.
Mar 12, 2019 Elizabeth Warren vs. Big Tech: What could go wrong? Warren’s proposal to break up Amazon, Google, et al., may sound nice, but would it really fix anything?
Mar 8, 2019 In Defense of Apple’s Perfectly Adequate iPhone SE Did Apple’s phone design peak when they released the iPhone SE back in 2016?
Feb 25, 2019 The Human Cost of Moderating Facebook It’s increasingly difficult to see Facebook as anything close to resembling a positive for society.
Feb 5, 2019 Becoming a Better Writer Thanks to the IndieWeb Social networks encourage us to take less ownership of our content. That needs to change.
Feb 2, 2019 The Sights and Sounds of the PowerBase 180 After two decades of sitting on a shelf, my first computer started up just fine (albeit, very slowly and loudly).
Jan 5, 2019 Thousands of Published Works Are Now in the Public Domain Films by Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille, books by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Frost, and even the “Charleston” are freely available.
Oct 31, 2018 Why doesn’t Bandcamp have playlists? Speaking as a longtime fan and frequent consumer, Bandcamp’s utility would only be increased by the addition of some sort of playlist feature.
Oct 25, 2018 Internet Memories and Battle of the Bands ‘93 For better or worse, the internet has become a big collective memory organ.
Oct 16, 2018 UpTown Spot The impending war with the robots won’t be won in burnt out streets and urban hellscapes à la Terminator, but rather, on the dancefloor.