asking questions and discovering how little I know
A while ago I posted about the Web getting increasingly annoying. Not surprisingly, in a brief post called Signal to noise, Seth does a much better job of articulating much the same thing. He also has the perfect metaphor: signal to noise. Even if it was all good, there’s just too much stuff coming through. [...]
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Seth’s post Silly Traffic is worth a read. To use a cliche, it’s a reminder to not sweat the small stuff, in this case as it relates to web sites. Your site may get a lot of traffic, and you may be working your behind off to get that traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily translate [...]
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As I read Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch I wonder, as I have before, are we making ourselves redundant? By “we,” I mean us. Human beings. As computerization does so many wonderful things for us, one of those wonderful things is the elimination of loads of work. And that’s not quite so wonderful since it [...]
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Let’s talk about software updates: Could they be more frequent? It seems every second day I’m getting a new Firefox or iTunes update. Yes, I know you get the little window that asks if you want to install now or later, but I’m getting a little tired of working on my computer and getting these [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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