Web Tech Gossip
Index of non-tech essays related to internet tech culture over the years.
Web Spam, Scam, SEO
Social Networking
- Xah Lee Online History
- Facebook Embedding Tracking Data Inside Photos You Download
- StackOverflow Gamification
- Why I'm Removing Tech Blogger Celebrities and Googler on Google Plus
- Women in Tech: Today's Google Plus Recommendation?
- Anonymous vs Google: the Origin and Culture of Anonymous
- Nymwars: Google Plus Account Real Name Policy Debate
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- The Day Steve Jobs Died, Apple, Google Website Screenshots
- My Personal Photos of Steve Jobs (1955 to 2011)
- Steve Jobs 3 Months Before He Died
- Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs's Death
- Death of Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy
- Tech Humor: Apache vs Node.js vs NGINX 📺
SEO
- Google Search Ranking Ingredients (SEO secrets)
- 7 Things You Need to Know About SEO
- 3 Twitter Facts You'll Never Forget
- Domain Names, Cybersquatting, Resell Market
- Popular Money Making Websites
- Monetize Your Website
- Advantages of FeedBurner and Some Web Feed History
Internet Sociology
- Google Blogger Porn Content Policy
- Internet is For Porn
- Google Reader RIPS
- Nymwars: Google Plus Account Real Name Policy Debate
- Facebook's Ethics
- A Cross-Cultural Look of Sexual Anthropology thru orkut.com
- The Demise of orkut.com
- Are You Getting Truth From Pop Blogs?
- Facebook Girls: Dating Ads Collection
- Cookies, Super Cookies, Your Privacy
- Reddit = Porn Fodder
- Internet Hipsters and Hipstering of our Age
- Technology for Knowledge in Past Decades
Wikipedia
- Encyclopedia, My Experiences. 2007
- Death of Encarta
- The Heart of Wikipedia: Why is Wikipedia Successful?
- On Wikipedia's Misinformation, 2005
- Wikipedia Morons, 2005
- Wikipedia Donation Scam
- Lispers and Wikipedia, 2007
- The Encyclopedic Internet
- Wikipedia ban on Editing Tibet
- Wikipedia Article on Cindy's Torment
- Wikipedia and Photo of Human Vulva
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- Industrial Tech: Twilio, SendGrid, Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Service
- Opera Browser Can't Load Twitter CSS
- To SOPA or Not to SOPA? Stop Online Piracy Act
- MegaUpload Crime Boss
- iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Xoom: Pixel Dimension, Resolution, Density
- Screen Size Comparison: DVD, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Blu-ray
- What is Kindle, iPad, Android, and All That Jazz??
- Modern Tablet Computer Features
- Tablet Computer: Touch-screen Interface Pros and Cons
- What Encoding Do Chinese Websites Use?
- The Ease of Making Money by Professional Blogging
- Humor: CSS Experimental Pain, Window Blind
- HTML Style 1999: Hacker News
- Hacker News Traffic Effect
- Social Network Voting Systems and Their Consequences
- Global Internet Usage Hour Pattern
- WHATWG vs W3C Split