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So you want to follow me on Twitter
Congratulations! You have a Twitter account, and somehow you have stumbled across my account. That follow button may look awfully tempting after you read over the past few pearls of wisdom that I’ve dropped onto the Internet. Before you click … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo’s history and the function of a search term
As I’ve mentioned before, researching the culture of NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy for Wikiwrimo is hard. Really hard. Blame the lack of Wayback Machine in recent years, blame the lack of site and forum archives in 2002 and 2004 and … Continue reading
Tweet it. He’ll do it.
Imagine giving up your free will. Beginning June 21st, David on Demand will be giving his free will to the Internet for a whole week. Not just to the Internet as a whole–to the Twitter community. If you request something … Continue reading
Is IM on the decline?
A writer for the BBC Magazine thinks so. Texting and Twittering are the new way to communicate instantly, the writer argues. I disagree. Yes, I text, though my phone isn’t conducive to texting because I have to hit the 2 … Continue reading
Google Pacman
If you’ve been paying attention to the Internet over the past two days, you probably know that you could play Pacman on Google’s homepage. Now that the two days of the playable Google doodle are coming to an end and … Continue reading
Planning for the Facebook exodus
I’m pondering deleting my Facebook account. That’s a lie. I’m definitely deleting my Facebook account. Before coming to a decision, I started blocking applications from what felt like a never-ending list of ignored application invitations so they couldn’t harvest any … Continue reading
Can’t go past ?page=401 in Delicious bookmarks? It’s not just you.
Update: I posted a bug report on the forums and got a reply. Turns out that allowing this would cause performance issues at Delicious. Time to reorganize my bookmarks. I have a large collection of Delicious bookmarks, which sits at … Continue reading
When in doubt, ask the Internet.
Let’s say you have a problem. Your boyfriend’s acting distant. You think someone likes you, but you’re not quite sure. You can’t decide where to go to grad school or what to do tonight or whether that yogurt is safe … Continue reading
Hitler does not approve of Constantin Film’s shenanigans
If you’ve never heard of the Hitler Downfall meme, your days to see it may be numbered. A scene in which Hitler rants is shown with subtitles changed to reflect a theme. I’ve watched Hitler react to Sarah Palin, the … Continue reading
The Library of Congress acquires the entire Twitter archive
Anything you say or do online can come back to haunt you. Almost everyone knows that, and I wish I knew it in my early online days: not because I did anything particularly dumb, but for the username identity. I’ve … Continue reading