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Daedalus Howell

Unfriend Me

August 30, 2010

How to be a Social Medea and give “friends” the axe Credit must go to Facebook for turning “friend” into a verb, as in “Friend me on Facebook,” or perhaps “Go friend yourself,” should one choose to decline the invitation. When it became appended with the antonymic prefix “un-,” the new verb took its place [...]

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The Wheel of 4Chan

August 14, 2010

Online community gets spin from Fox to Anonymous For some, like Fox News, the online community known as “4chan” is a terrorist training camp. For others, including a growing cadre of Sonoma County teens—particularly those who are male, live with their parents and are practiced in navigating the backwaters of the web—4chan is a graffiti-tagged [...]

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Wolfram Alpha vs. Google vs. Your Brain (on drugs)

August 1, 2010

Last month, the big brains of the “computational knowledge” world gathered in central London to explore how “advances in computational technology are unlocking knowledge assets and shaping the future.” The event, dryly named the London Computational Knowledge Summit, was underwritten by Wolfram Alpha, which bills itself as a “computational knowledge engine,” a tagline so catchy, [...]

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SEO as a Networking Tool

July 26, 2010

In no way do I purport to understand the alchemy of search engine optimization – that arcane conflux of meta tags, algorithmic jockeying and ritual sacrifice to Google that produces page rankings and spankings in equal measure. Well, who knows if it’s equal – that sort of proprietary information lives in some server barn in Mountain [...]