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  • WebCite: An On-Demand Internet Archive

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008

    As someone who studies Internet culture, one of my biggest problems is “link rot,” or broken links.  I’m a big fan of the Internet Archive, but they are usually six to eight months behind on even the most popular sites.  I also applaud sites like Wikipedia for providing stable version histories so that I can [...]

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  • Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?

    Friday, May 23, 2008

    Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?

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  • The Facticity of Art

    Friday, May 4, 2007

    This is a piece of web art or net art, with an included work of art criticism about the piece. The work makes the argument that while interactive digital art can be considered user-centered, this new style and medium is only centered around those possibilities that the creator wishes to make available to [...]

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  • Web Design: Blueprints on the CSS Zen Garden

    Thursday, May 18, 2006

    This was a CSS stylesheet I wrote for the CSS Zen Garden, which is a really cool concept in web design. There is a standard HTML page in which all the content is wrapped up in div tags, and the idea is to write a CSS stylesheet that makes it pretty. Mine was [...]

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  • Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

    Wednesday, November 23, 2005

    Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

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