Email addresses are the coin of the realm nowadays in political campaigning. More political efforts — whether candidates, partisan groups, or advocacy organizations — ask for your email address than probably any other piece of contact information. And email addresses matter — at least, people are starting to suspect they do. Recently, I heard a [...]
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You’re doing it wrong: pet peeves in Web authoring
I usually try to be fairly gentle in my blog posts. Well, this one’s a full-out rant. And it does name names, but only for purposes of demonstration, not public shaming.
By dint of what I do, I spend a lot of time working on the Web. Here are some of my pet peeves:
No links
People, it’s [...]
Exceptionalism in science and in cyberspace
I’ve noticed that there’s a prominent streak of exceptionalism in thinking about science as well as about the Internet. In both cases, there’s a sense of otherness, of separation, of being a sui generis entity in the world and in history.
I made the connection reading David King’s piece for the Sciences and Democracy World Forum, [...]
On digital eviction; responsibilities of online service providers
Jason Scott’s blog post from a few weeks ago, Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse, has kicked up a bit of dust. His argument (see also his follow-up post) is that services for hosting user-generated content need to take more seriously the consequences of shutting off those services. He argues that shutting down a hosted service [...]
Wanted: standardized behavior for email list unsubscribe
I subscribe to a lot of email lists. I mean, a lot. In addition to the lists I’ve opted in to, there’s the grey area of lists I “joined” (or was added to) without much conscious effort on my part, e.g. because I filled out a petition, went to a conference, or bought something.
Email is [...]
Florida explores open government and the Internet
This is old news, but I didn’t hear of it until last week. (Actually, the first I heard was from a column in El Sentinel. It pays to read the Spanish-language press!)
Florida’s governor Charlie Crist has espoused support for open government since he took office. His first executive order was to create an Office of [...]
Presentation on Net neutrality in Gainesville, Fla. (late)
I failed to post an announcement in advance, but better late than never:
I gave a presentation on Net neutrality on 13 November to the Association of Information Technology Professionals, North Central Florida Chapter in Gainesville, Fla. The slides are available here, largely derived from my earlier presentation at the Florida Media Reform Conference.
Google doesn’t like plus-addressing, sometimes
Google, known for offering plus-addressing to users of Gmail, doesn’t actually support sending to plus addresses with its Alerts service.
Finally, the illusion of Google’s perfect single-mindedness as an organization is cracked. At last, one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing!
To be fair, Alerts is still in beta. (Hey, it’s only been around for [...]
