WordPress.com has already adopted two Tumblr features (likes and reblogs) but the third one coming in version 3.1 may complete the transformation: post formats. That’s not to say it hasn’t been done. And can you really replicate the Tumblr experience on self-hosted systems? Beyond the debates of regurgitating posts killing originality/identity/attribution though, I’m more interested in the ability to interconnect blogs, tweets, tumblelogs, notes in the most seamless way possible. […]
I don’t like it when links automatically open in new windows or tabs. I want to be able to control where I load a URL and prefer CTRL-clicking or middle-clicking instead. But when I keep switching tabs and windows and then return to the URLs I opened in the background, I forget why I opened them or what led me to them in the first place. Maybe I need to […]
There’s really not much profit (monetary or otherwise) to be had in making local “copies” of the most popular sites today; you’ll probably just be called unimaginative and lame (read: jologs). But these sites are fun little ideas that stir up the chunks in our cultural halo-halo and remind us that quirky is interesting and copying is okay, as long as we make it our own. (But first, sites that […]
Update (05/25/09): The Philippine Star reports that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has lifted the book tax imposed by the Department of Finance / Bureau of Customs. Also, a postscript from Robin Hemley, the first to write about the whole thing. The Great Book Blockade of 2009 has been buzzing for a few weeks now, but not as loudly as one would have wanted. It’s about the taxation of books and the […]
Reasons I love Plurk, told in a different way. Like many things on the web, microblogging is a popularity contest, but it’s not just what these personalities say. It’s how they use the medium. Add these model citizens, okay? The Runners-up Comic haven from velociraptors: XKCD (@xkcd) One of the greatest, geekiest web comics of all time, XKCD‘s syndication on Plurk feels like a match made in heaven and not […]
Warning: comparing Twitter and Plurk is messy. Both are different things to different people, and unless these people agree to disagree the debate will never end. Here’s my response to The Death of Plurk and the comments on it. This is by no means comprehensive, just lengthy enough to be a standalone post.
Consumer Electronics Live! 2008 was disappointing. From its buggy, uninformative Flash-based website to a sparse SMX Exhibit Hall (it wasn’t even the last day!), this was another sign that modernity in this third world country is too brittle, too shallow at this point.
My highlights from WordCamp Philippines 2008, held on September 6 at De La Salle – College of St. Benilde:
I’m not here to measure just how revolutionary open-source web browser Google Chrome is. I did that elsewhere. The problem with Google Chrome is that people are not supposed to ask if they should paranoid about using it. The problem with Google Chrome is that an uproar in the blogosphere should not be needed for its questionable privacy policy/license agreement/terms of service to be modified. Since Google has managed to […]
Design × Code × Words for a better Web,
made in the Philippines by Sophia Lucero.