Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Unfortunately Mozilla is not quite coorporating in the New Year. After an odd semi-system crash all my Mozilla applications have returned to their default settings with my personal settings nowhere to be found. Firefox still displays my installed add-ons but all my bookmarks and shortcuts are gone. Worst of all Thunderbird crashed. The e-mail in… Read more January is Going to Be Quiet
I spent New Years in Vilnius, Lithuania and had a great time, see photos. We attended a party in Club Gravity, an old bomb shelter, where Apparat was performing.
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