I finally bit the bullet and got rid of some posts from my blog archive I don't stand by anymore. They were already excluded in robots.txt; now they're gone for good. Yes, I kept the manuscripts; no, you can't have them. And by the way,...

I heard about a news feed app with in-built social features so I gave it a whirl.

Why is gifting subscriptions so hard? As a freelancer, some years are better than others. The last two years have been difficult for me financially, so I'm always thinking of ways to better weather the storm. I had this idea to ask my...

Web 2.0 Conference signage; photo by Gen Kanai. When I walked into the Web 2.0 Conference at the Argent the next morning, a Thursday, I poured myself a cup of hotel coffee and wandered over to one of the round high tables in the foyer,...

The Gemini protocol is this neat gopher like protocol that lets me broadcast this blog like a good ol fashioned MUD. Its fantastic. Originally I found out about the idea, by visiting The Paranoid Times which had an article for using said...

Yesterday, I taught one of the final meetings of my undergrad "Ethics and the Media" course at York. We're using Charle Ess's Digital Media Ethics (3rd edition) as our textbook, and so we've had a good guide to ethical theories, such as...