Tag Archives: internet

Tumblr doesn’t play nice ...

30Sep2008 Leave a comment
They say hind­sight is 20/20, and often it’s vindicating. I haven’t looked back since I switched from Tum­blr to Word­Press. Host­ing my own blog is much more sat­is­fy­ing and I have much more con­trol and flex­i­bil­ity over my con­tent and its appear­ance. It’s reas­sur­ing to see that oth­ers have found the same. So I real­ized last week [...]

Comcast starts enforcing bandwidth cap ...

30Sep2008 Leave a comment
Com­cast Help & Sup­port — Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions about Exces­sive Use Com­cast has estab­lished a 250GB monthly data usage thresh­old for all res­i­den­tial Com­cast High-Speed Inter­net accounts. This thresh­old will be in place to pro­vide a clear def­i­n­i­tion of exces­sive use of the service. The new monthly data usage thresh­old will go into effect start­ing Octo­ber 1, 2008. Start­ing tomor­row, Com­cast will [...]

The internet and your attention ...

04Sep2008 2 Comments
You are busy. You have many demands on your time and atten­tion. Never, under any con­di­tions, hes­i­tate to ignore any­one or any­thing that’s not mak­ing good use of your atten­tion. Ever. The ever-insightful Mer­lin Mann. The first thing I did was to stop fol­low­ing him on Twit­ter; he asked for it. I sup­pose this also means [...]

Obama Mobilizing His Followers via Twitter ...

20Aug2008 4 Comments
On the Web, Obama’s Twit­ter site now has more than 60,000 fol­low­ers, who receive updates from Obama’s town hall meet­ings and links to his Web site. The arti­cle also men­tions that “Repub­li­can John McCain’s cam­paign, mean­while, has not high­lighted text mes­sages,” Instead McCain is going old-school with viral YouTube videos, [sic] “McCain’s recent ‘Celeb’ ad, which com­pared [...]
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