http://diehealthy.org The technopolitical world needs thinkerers. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:53:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes http://diehealthy.org/hyperweb/diversity-rules-for-social http://diehealthy.org/hyperweb/diversity-rules-for-social#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:53:35 +0000 adam http://diehealthy.org/?p=952 We got here because social came late. Look at other parts of the Internet. But you have to look carefully, you have to look at social types of activities. Like email. Like instant messaging. Where are we going? <a href="http://diehealthy.org/hyperweb/diversity-rules-for-social">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Diehealthyorg/~4/kb3MJLLyKyI" height="1" width="1"/> http://diehealthy.org/hyperweb/diversity-rules-for-social/feed 0 http://diehealthy.org/software/web-monsters-and-configuration http://diehealthy.org/software/web-monsters-and-configuration#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:55:08 +0000 adam http://diehealthy.org/?p=948 Web Applications roll their own interactions. And they don't necessarily do it in a way that matches the platform or browser norms. The result being an uncanny valley in Web Apps, where they look and act close enough to either web pages or regular applications, but are a sufficiently mashed version of both as to offend. <a href="http://diehealthy.org/software/web-monsters-and-configuration">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Diehealthyorg/~4/GKf2W-vVTFk" height="1" width="1"/> http://diehealthy.org/software/web-monsters-and-configuration/feed 0 http://diehealthy.org/unamerican/the-price-of-the-sun http://diehealthy.org/unamerican/the-price-of-the-sun#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:27:07 +0000 adam http://diehealthy.org/?p=945 All this copyright business makes me wonder how screwed we would be if the same sort of business practices could easily be applied to things like that star over there that's responsible for keeping this planet going. If, one day, there's a sun tax, how big could it grow. How much could an institution get away with before people rebel? <a href="http://diehealthy.org/unamerican/the-price-of-the-sun">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Diehealthyorg/~4/GyU_3F5OxmE" height="1" width="1"/> http://diehealthy.org/unamerican/the-price-of-the-sun/feed 0