Emotions and Blog Popularity 10.30.07

Most women tend to use the blog as its paper predecessor – the diary, so it is no wonder that the style and content of their blogs still tends to follow that model. For that reason, women’s blogs are usually very emotional, personal and intimate.
We (including men; admit it!) want to say (or write) the [...]

All your VoIP are belong to ISP 10.23.07

What do VoiceWing and Vonage have in common? They are both VoIP services. What is the difference? VoiceWing is owned by Verizon, which also happens to be an ISP.
Proponents of the concept of Net Neutrality claim that ISPs are fighting for the power to control what passes through their pipes, and if they win, [...]

Author’s Name as a Trademark 10.18.07

Although Michel Foucault does state in “What Is an Author?” that an author is different from a writer – some one who wrote a sticky note, for instance – and has a different social status and function in the society, he also states that our perception of authors is based on what we think of [...]

Quark vs Scottish Arts Council 10.16.07

It is not a question of whether copyright should stay, but how it should be regulated. When we think copyright violations we usually think messy lawsuits, but surprisingly enough, this was not the case with Quark and the Scottish Arts Council logo dispute.
Scottish Arts Council came up with a very simple logo that looked [...]

Organization via Megamachine 10.04.07

What surprised me in David Weinberger’s “The New Order of Order” from “Everything is Miscellaneous” was that although he attempts to show the difference between the three orders of order, he doesn’t elaborate enough on the third order – the order that “removes the limitations we’ve assumed were inevitable in how we organize information” – [...]