From Caleb Crain’s How Is the Internet Changing Literary Style?: “Good evening. In my talk tonight, I would like to raise the question, How is the internet changing literary style? The question has at least two aspects. First, Which traits of style change when writing goes online? Second, What are the forces that cause these [...]
From the Atlantic’s Is Google Making Us Stupid?: “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of [...]
From I Power’s 2012: The Year The Internet Ends: “Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you’ll have to pay for seperate [...]
From Douglas Adams’s 1999 essay, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet: “Interactivity is one of those neologisms that [fuddy-duddies at the BBC] like to dangle between a pair of verbal tweezers, but the reason we suddenly need such a word is that during this century we have for the first time [...]
February 6, 2008 – 02:04 pm
From the International Herald Tribune’s Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question: “Four undersea communication cables have been cut in the past week [two in the Mediterranean and two in the Persian Gulf], raising questions about the safety of the oceanic network that handles the bulk of the world’s Internet and telephone traffic.” [A [...]
November 6, 2007 – 12:30 am
Out of pure Google Analytics-inspired curiosity, I found myself wondering if Fluid Imagination has attracted at least one visitor from every country in the world. Unfortunately, my stat-tracking doesn’t go all the way back to the beginnings of this blog (Winter 2003?), but it does track all the way back to June of last year, [...]
From Hyperlinks invade physical objects: “1) Put a high-density bar code on any object to encode information about it, including audio or video. 2) Put software in a call phone so it can scan bar codes and get the information. Buzzword: “physical hyperlink.” This is happening in Asia and just beginning in the U.S. Examples: [...]
From RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter: “The Copyright Royalty Board has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the “per play” rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA)…The math suggests that the royalty rate [...]
February 27, 2007 – 12:19 pm
Justin found this in Slate Magazine : “Terrorism has erupted in a huge, online fantasy world. Membership in Second Life has soared from 100,000 to 2 million in a year. Freeloaders and corporations selling real stuff are coming in; imaginary elves are leaving. The company that runs the world says it needs corporate money to [...]
February 7, 2007 – 11:37 am
From Information Super Traffic Jam: “A new assessment from Deloitte & Touche predicts that global traffic will exceed the Internet’s capacity as soon as this year. Why? The rapid growth in the number of global Internet users, combined with the rise of online video services and the lack of investment in new infrastructure. If Deloitte’s [...]
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