Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Deleting your MySpace page is painful. You had friends, too few or too many. It had taken over your life, or you wish it had. Was your profile stale? Were you too active? The morning after International Delete Your Myspace Account Day elfriendo gives you a new look. elfriendo.com – “Taking the work out of… Read more International Delete Your Myspace Account Day: The Morning After is Elfriendo Day!
moar funny pictures And my favorite Christmas cartoon is by xkcd.
Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the word weblog as coined on December 17, 1997 by Jorn Barger. In another two years we can celebrate the coinage of the word blog but in the meanwhile let’s focus on creating new pathways into the history of blogging. Instead of arguing about definitions and dates we… Read more Happy Birthday to Me and You and Everyone We Know!
Mashable just pointed my attention to the release of a new WordPress plugin which is particularly interesting regarding my thesis. I am currently writing about the increasing relationship between blog software and the engines. Yahoo! just launched a new plugin for WordPress that pulls in related content to your post. As I skimmed briefly through… Read more Yahoo! Powered Shortcuts for WordPress
Flickr just started offering statistics to it’s pro users, that’s me! I couldn’t be happier. Flickr really loves me! I just loved their announcement with all the oldskool “under construction” graphics. To honor the good old days, I made an animated gif from the announcement. I am a stat addict and check my blog statistics… Read more NEW! Flickr Stats! Under Construction. And the Horror of Referrer Spam
I wrote a guest contribution for about:blank, a Dutch blog on blogging that has been around since 2002. The post is about my personal blogging experiences and the Blog as an Evolving Object (In Dutch). Enjoy!