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In Memoriam GeoCities (1994-2009)

Yahoo! will soon pull the plug on the once-famous GeoCities.com. The passing of this iconic Internet site is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, GeoCities (and its competitors like Tripod and Angelfire) were an important catalyst for the development of...
By on 05/03/09 4
TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

Some people get very nervous using Twitter; they find the constant stream of (seemingly) unimportant personal exclamations incredibly annoying. They say: how on Earth are you supposed to keep track of all that information? Well, those people should try...
By on 04/10/09 2

Twitter and the Aphoristic Society

Twitter has been denounced by some as a useless waste of time. However, the short and snappy, "aphoristic" communication tool may also be a symptom of how people like to communicate today. The author argues that we are probably...
By on 10/14/08 Comments Off on Twitter and the Aphoristic Society

‘Wiktionary’ and the Limitations of Collaborative Sites

Wiktionary is probably one of the oddest projects currently run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started in 2002, it is a free and open dictionary working on the collaborative content creation model of Wikipedia. It currently boasts more than 900,000 lemmata for both English and French,...
By on 09/20/08 3