There’s general class of applications that’s been gaining some traction lately in the Mozilla communities built on a free-standing framework called Web Runner.
The idea is simple: take a browser, cut out the tabs, the URL bar and all the rest of the window chrome and instead load one website at a time. Hence the [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Site-specific browsers and GreaseKit
Oct 23rd – @ 1am
Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief
Oct 22nd – @ 11pm
I know I’ve been beating the drum about hashtags for a while. People are either lukewarm to them or are annoyed and hate them. I get it. I do. But for some stupid reason I just can’t leave them alone.
Anyway, today I think I saw a glimmer of the promise of the hashtag [...]
And you wonder why people in America are afraid of the Internet
Oct 21st – @ 10pm
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you two exhibits.
Here is Exhibit A from today’s International Herald Tribune:
In contrast (Exhibit B) we have the same exact article, but with a completely different headline:
Now, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how the latter is a more accurate or more appropriate [...]