Typo in an inbound link? Redirection to the rescue!
Jump ahead to the solution to my problem Every Sunday, when my cartoon gets posted on ReadWriteWeb, I head on over to have a look and join whatever conversation’s going on. Today’s visit was much the same thing… until I noticed a little wonkiness: a...awsamuel: Remember how boring it was to wait in a long line at…
Remember how boring it was to wait in a long line at the bank with your mom or dad? Thanks to iPads it’s now bearable…and thanks to ATMs, there’s no line. (Taken with instagram)
Traversing the Mailbox Hierarchy: the lost journals
Recently, a team of skilled Internet (small-e) explorers set out to find some trace of well-known adventurer, bon vivant and conversationalist Mail.app. After chasing down several false leads (one of which ended with a grisly discovery: the frozen, lifeless body of Eudora for Mac OS X Lion), they found this tattered journal, buried under a simple cairn of stacked BCC messages.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what we do…
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what we do online isn’t real, and doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t help that we’ve developed the acronym IRL, In Real Life, to refer to the offline world.
But why shouldn’t we regard our online lives as just as real, just as valid and just as meaningful as our offline ones? That’s the question Alex posed a few months ago at TEDx Victoria, proceeding from a blog post she wrote last year for the Harvard Business Review.
The talk, titled “Ten Reasons to Stop Apologizing for your Online Life”, just went live. And if you’ve ever wondered why a valued online friendship doesn’t count as “the real world” while a trip to the mall does – and, more to the point, what you can do about it – you’ll want to watch.
