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Design for Selfishness

In Design, Folksonomy, Geek, Internet, Tags, Technorati on 11 April 2006 with Comments Off

In 1996, Paulina Borsook wrote a story that, frankly, really pissed me off. In “Cyberselfish,” published in Mother Jones and eventually turned into a book, she wrote about how new have-it-your-way technology was creating a generation of spoiled brats with computers.
I took umbrage. Not only was I a proud member of the generation she [...]

Technoratized

In Blogging, Geek, Tags, Technorati on 4 February 2005 with Comments Off

Now that I’ve been working at Technorati long enough for the Kool-Aid to kick in, I decided to trick out my blog a bit with some nifty Technoratiness. Here are the highlights:
1. Search! Google may have this site indexed back to 1997, but it can take weeks for new entries to show up there. If [...]

Searching vs. Browsing

In Blogging, Folksonomy, Tags, Technorati on 19 January 2005 with Comments Off

Or: Why you’re gonna be hearing the word “tag” a lot
Think about these two words for a moment: “Search” and “Browse.” They’re words that are used frequently to describe things we do on computers. But consider their traditional associations:
Browsing is shopping, strolling, flipping through a magazine. Browsing is fun, casual, entertaining.
Searching is mechanical, trial and [...]