Regarding my previous posts about installing Ubuntu, which I really do like, by the way, I just got a Twitter message from Bubbasan pointing me to the Linux Equivalent Project. This is a pretty cool idea, and there’s some things on there I really hadn’t though about at all, but will be taking a look at over the next weeks and months as I use Ubuntu more and more.
Oh, also, I am seeing some real usefulness from Twitter, I’ll have more about that in upcoming post.
20 Year Archive now Available on Google Groups This is actually fairly interesting. It’s got a listing of some of the more historic posts, like the first mention of Microsoft, or the first mention of AOL in Usenet. (Via Firda’s weblog .) This also presents us with a dilemna. For the last 20 years, how…
I’ve written before about the Photo Migration tool offered at http://export.goyaka.com/ It’s a nice tool to make a copy of your Flickr photo sets in Facebook, eliminating the need for folks who want to interact with your photos to create a Flickr account, not to mention a way to instantly backup your photos sets online….
Grantland recently did a feature on the social media star that Cardale Jones has become since leading Ohio State to the National Championship early in 2015. Given that we first noticed Cardale for tweeting in 2012 about how silly it was that football players had to go to class, he’s obviously improved his interaction with…
Tim hits the nail on the head here, there’s a very fine line between trying to weed out “fake” information, and outright censorship. “Fake news is apparently everywhere. All over Europe, legislators and officials are trying to regulate content with “fake news” legislation and directives, as though the term could somehow be narrowly-defined enough that…
This is a bit of a follow-up to a post a few days ago about whether having an open ticketing system would help with the communications between techs and the users they support. As I mentioned there, and talked more about in the comments, when you have systemic failure to communicate, it’s much more than…