Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Internet can’t even hold a ship down?

It’s a well-known – and probably false – meme that the Internet was originally designed to withstand a nuclear attack. But one would’ve thought it could withstand oh, say, an anchor? Apparently not. This story of severe disruption of the … Continue reading

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Random thoughts of the day #17

Here we go with the food prices Last year, it was all over the news that food prices are going to go up this year. This self-fulfilling prophecy is now being materialized in a number of locations. In the past … Continue reading

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Best practices for making a mobile-optimized website

Why is this important? With more and more people using the Internet with their mobile phones, more and more sites are launching mobile-optimized versions of their service. The importance and numbers of people using mobiles to browse the web has … Continue reading

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The stock market isn’t the only thing going down

While evaluating a course on Web 2.0 ecosystems and listening to stuff I already know, I was looking at other wonders of the web, namely news. Unsurprisingly after recent developments, there appears to be a not-so-slight market crash going on … Continue reading

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Review: The Undercover Economist

Continuing on a somewhat related topic with “Freakonomics” that I read a short while back, The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford takes aim at partly similar things but from a different perspective. While the very beginning is a little bit … Continue reading

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