Archive for 2008
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Nowadays, there are few reasons to use Flash. The least legitimate reason, I think, is to "spice up" the design of a site. Usually, spicing it up with Flash comes at the cost of functionality and accessibility. And what's more, the people who are usually asking for Flash developers to spice up their sites have no idea what Flash is capable of other than fancy animations.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I love science fiction, so I can't help it when news like Microsoft's hostile takeover of Yahoo! invites the possibility that the end result of these web conglomerates' struggles—that is, the battle between Google and Microsoft over who will control cyberspace—will be something out of science fiction: the unveiling of a speculative "Internet operating system," and our final transitioning into a truly Gibsonesque cyberspace.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
What does it mean to be knowledgeable in a web 2.0 twenty-first century? Is it a matter of how much you know, or how much you know how to know?
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
On our first winter in Boston, Jenna visited and made a snowman.
