Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Internet can’t even hold a ship down?

Posted on Jan 31, 2008 by sim

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

Posted on Jan 28, 2008 by sim

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

Posted on Jan 23, 2008 by sim

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

Posted on Jan 22, 2008 by sim

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

Posted on Jan 18, 2008 by sim

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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