Category Archives: internet

Google Wave Swamps My PC

I’ve just been trying Google Wave after I was graciously invited by someone awesome, and it looks like it’s really hard on your computer’s system resources when you’re trying to view a big Wave. Here’s my browser, struggling to render a big Wave:
I was trying to read a random Wave that had 129 other users [...]

Make Money Sharecropping Your Face

It’s been two and a half years since Nicholas Carr wrote:
Web 2.0, by putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the [...]

Online Scams In Plain English

This video from the guys at CommonCraft does a great job of explaining what Phishing scams are and how they work: