Technology

1. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

   29 August, 2010:

   Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger examines how humanity has used technology to augment human memory over the ages, and how we are now entering a period where technology gives us near-perfect memory through digital archives. He argues that this is an abnormal situation for our societies, and that we ought to be finding ways in which we can facilitate forgetting rather than remembering.

2. Microsoft: Evil? Perhaps. Good at PR? No.

   24 October, 2009:

   Guest writer Matthew Hasteley talks us through the differences between Microsoft and Apple’s marketing strategies.

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3. That Charlie Brooker Article

   7 February, 2007:

   So a few days ago Charlie Brooker casually commented that he hated Macs, and Mac owners, and over the space of about half a day every single one of you sent me a link to the article, which leads me to believe that you’re hoping for some sort of response.

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4. The Powerbook

   1 June, 2005:

   As mentioned, I now have a Powerbook. This is the first time I’ve used a Mac for an extended period, so does it live up the hype?

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5. Justification

   28 May, 2005:

   Justification is an art. When you’re short of funds, though not so short that buying something is entirely unlikely, you need to be able to justify it to yourself. You can’t just spend money on things that you just fancy having; you need to convince yourself, and, perhaps more importantly, you need to be able to convince others, and that’s always the hard part.

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6. Talkr

   22 May, 2005:

   Talkr is a new subscription service that takes the textual content of a blog and creates a podcasts from it. But…what’s the use of that?

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7. Gravatars

   13 January, 2005:

   The internet loves its fads. Flickr, deli.ciou.us, Browse Happy, Spread Firefox, XFN, and so on. Another relatively recent trend is the use of Gravatars. Let’s talk about them.

   20 comments

8. Six Apart to buy Livejournal

   5 January, 2005:

   It has been announced that Six Apart, the company that owns Movable Type and Typepad, have purchased Livejournal. Obviously, we can expect some changes.

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9. MSN Spaces

   5 December, 2004:

   Microsoft have has quietly unveiled a beta of their new blogging service, MSN Spaces. Missing an opportunity to copy Google with their ‘invite-only’ beta, this service is open to everyone, and is disgustingly easy to sign up for. So, I did.

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10. Netscape

    3 December, 2004:

    I’ve always had a soft spot for Netscape, but not for any reason. I never used the browser except for testing webpages in, never used the mail client or the news reader or the HTML composer. The version of Netscape’s browser I’m most familiar with is version 4, and that familiarity is borne of contempt. Yet I still like to hear about it when a new version or a new upgrade is released. It’s a browser that just won’t die.

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11. MSN Search

    13 November, 2004:

    As you will probably have heard, Microsoft revealed a beta of their new search engine, which you can view in action at beta.search.msn.com. I felt that the internet needed some more opinions, so here are mine.

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