Ze Frank And Connections Over The Internet

Ze Frank has been doing interesting online experiments for almost ten years. He delivered a talk about some of his projects to a TED conference a few months ago; if you can find 20 minutes to watch it, you might come out feeling a little better about community and...

Google Instant Search

Google made a simple but profound change to the way that search results are delivered to you from the Google search page. It changes the world in a small but significant way. You will now get two things while you type: Predictions of what you’re most likely to be...

Reconsidering Firefox

or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Google Chrome I am conservative about installing software. I don’t want programs on my computers unless I intend to use them. The first thing I do with a new computer is remove unnecessary utilities and cruddy photo programs...

Weak Passwords

Previously: Passwords: computer login Passwords: e-mail Passwords: Google Accounts & Windows Live ID Passwords: password managers Passwords: online passwords and LastPass Let’s go over a few facts of life. No one is enjoying the need to have a lot of passwords....