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Story Archives of 'Internet'
Webby Events of the New Millenium
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.As the end of 2009 draws near, the year-end lists will be doubled by the decade-end lists, gracing magazine covers, blog posts, newspaper columns, and text messages. It has been a heck of a decade for the internet.
That hasn’t slipped the notice of the folks at the Webby Awards, which honors excellence in websites, interactive advertising, and online film and video. This morning, the webby awards released its picks for the internet moments of the decade, and David Michael Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards is here to run through them.
The Webby Awards: Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
Word of Mouth's internet shirpa Brady Carlson offers More Ways the Web Changed Us
(Photo courtesy Hobvias Sudoneighm via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
More Ways the Web Has Changed Us
By Brady Carlson on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.NHPR webmaster Brady Carlson put together his own list of ways the web has changed us:
1) Broadband and wireless as game-changers.
There is no YouTube revolution if we’re all on dialup. Cell phones become portable computers instead of mere communication devices. It also creates a cultural expectation that we have access wherever we go. Realtors have told me through Public Insight, for example, that homebuyers ask about internet access when they’re looking at a house, the way they’d ask about the water system or the electrical.
A New Challenge on the First Amendment
By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.Free speech allows us to say what we want, but it does have its limits. A new case being heard by the New Hampshire Supreme Court brings the First Amendment to 2009; in question, whether media outlets can protect the identities of anonymous online commenters. It’s a case that with not only bring the First Amendment to posting sites, blogs and citizen journalists, but also see where they fit in today’s media landscape. We’ll look at this case and what it may mean to the future of online posting.
Guests
- Sheldon Toplitt, Media Law Instructor at Boston University, Attorney, and Author of the blog The Unruly of Law
- Clint Hendler, staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review
Here's What's Awesome: Double Guitar Solos, Dating Rescues
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, November 1, 2009.I think Here's What's Awesome needs a catchphrase - something as catchy as Gomer Pyle's "Sha-zam!" but as down to earth as Daniel Schorr's "This is Daniel Schorr." Let's think on this as we explore another week of awesome links:
And next, three people and a piccolo
Two Brazilian musicians prove that a) you don't need two guitars to play a guitar duet, and b) you don't need to "beatbox" or sing about robots to become an internet musical sensation!
Here's What's Awesome: The Internet Sings, and Remakes Star Wars
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, October 25, 2009.
Support for Here's What's Awesome comes from the Here's What's Awesome Foundation, helping awesome links help you, since 2008. On the web at... well, right here.
So what song is it y'all want to type in and have a computer sing?
Tao Lin's "Shoplifting from American Apparel"
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, October 7, 2009.
Writer and poet Tao Lin is not someone who shrinks from media attention. He’s sold shares of an unfinished novel on eBay and offers up GChat sessions for a fee. With all his self-driven publicity stunts, it’s hard to get past the noise and really dig into the writing. His style is flat, unemotive, and focuses on the surface of things. His new book is Shoplifting From American Apparel, and it’s a slim autobiographical novella set mostly in New York. The main character, Sam, gets caught stealing and goes to jail, plays Scrabble and makes out with girls, gambles away hundreds of dollars in Atlantic City, and attends a music festival in Florida… but all with equal gravity and a sense of profound detachment. Tao Lin joins us to discuss his writing and the hype he’s built up around it.
New York Magazine: New Lit Boy: Tao Lin
Village Voice: Tao Lin's Five-Finger Discount
The Rumpus: The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The Real-Time Web
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.
A new generation of search engines is challenging Google’s dominance over the online search. OneRiot, Topsy, and Scoopler are a few of the new breed that index topics which are trending right now.
While a Google search will more likely locate more established, more static sites. Pundits are calling it real-time web, and here to tell us the difference between the web that we were always told is real time and the new real time is the fervently unstatic and always current Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired magazine.
Wired: Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
TechCrunch: As Other Real-Time Search Engines Fizzle, OneRiot Gets Some Early Traction
(Photo by only_point_five via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Here's What's Awesome: NeighborGoods, Memory Spray
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, October 4, 2009.Sometimes people ask me how it feels to write Here's What's Awesome, to share hundreds of awesome links with the world. And I tell them it makes me happy - as happy as a little piglet in a warm bath:
Crowd-Sourced Meatloaf
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.
Do too many cooks spoil the soup or make it better? Some new food sites are taking the Wikipedia model and calling on their readers to spice up or modify user-submitted recipes. Posts range from Abalone Soup with Chinese Cabbage to Zucchini Almond Casserole.
It’s crowd-sourcing in the age of the amateur chef. For more we’re turning to Kim Severson who spotted the trend and reported on it for the New York Times.
The New York Times: E-Kitchens Can Get Crowded
(Photo by Justin Lowery via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Here's What's Awesome: Return My Pants, YouTube in Four Minutes
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, September 27, 2009.I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the universe (or maybe just my universe) spent the past week apple picking. And apple picking is a lot like the awesome link picking we do at Here's What's Awesome. You search and search from place to place to get just the right one. Then, ten minutes later, you've got eighteen pounds of the stuff and wonder how the heck you're going to use it all up in time.
