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Tag Archives: Web
The Facebook World: A Better Option
September 29th, 2010Facebook has more than 500 million active users, and half of them use it daily. 350 million of those people are outside the United States. Collectively, those 500 million people use Facebook 700 billion minutes each month, or an hour … Continue reading
Targeted Algorithms and Complete Openness
August 20th, 2010Eric Schmidt comments on where Google is going: “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he elaborates. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Let’s say you’re walking down the … Continue reading
iPad and Paying for Writing
February 22nd, 2010Subtitle: I’m hoping for a Content Store, but since we may not get it, what are your thoughts on the best way to do this? I love writing. I write for my own benefit; writing forces me to develop the … Continue reading
Lengthy Books
November 19th, 2009Cormac McCarthy doesn’t think people will read lengthy works anymore: But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore and people need to get used to that. If you … Continue reading
Replacing the Newspaper
September 3rd, 2009Newspapers, both the medium and the organizations, are sliding toward failure. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly because they are chained to the large staffs, factories, delivery vans and requisite workers that twentieth century economic realities made … Continue reading
Fever: Revealing Communities
July 14th, 2009Writing and reading weblogs should not be a lonely affair. Over the past year, I have seen a number of Fever readers in my subscriber data, and sometimes a “site.com/fever” entry would appear in my Mint referrers list. For many … Continue reading
A Series of Niches
April 27th, 2009Newspapers are dying. Print subscribers are down, print advertising revenue has declined precipitously, and there is no reason to think either of these trends will change. The newspaper’s current model — focus on print, provide general news, and monetize it … Continue reading
If you build websites, you have no doubt heard about Ruby on Rails (RoR). But if you’re a designer or front-end developer or you’re using PHP without any application framework, it may seem like a big leap to adopt the … Continue reading
April 29th, 2008Interview with Guy King on CushyCMS
April 19th, 2008CMS platforms suck. Although powerful, most CMSs require developers to learn their system and model their site concept around it. Consequently, these systems are for mid to large-size sites, and thus smaller website designers are left with few options to … Continue reading
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