Category — social informatics

Blogs Officially 'It'.

Many people have declared blogs officially “mainstream,” especially after the whole Trent Lott debacle, however, I have the definitive proof. From the January, 2003, issue of Ladies Home Journal, I bring you “Their Heart on Their Screen.”

“Teenagers used to file first kisses and missed curfews safely under lock and key in a private diary. But today's tech-savvy teens are keeping a blog (short for Web log) or online journal instead. In essence, a blog is a form of personal publishing that allows willing diarists – sometimes anonymous, usually not – to create a Web page where they can share their stories in cyberspace, and update them frequently (there are now as many as 500,000). At livejournal.com, a blog home base, of sorts, the need to build a Web page or buy software is eliminated (users only have to sign up before letting it all out). And letting it out teens are. Says the site's supervisor and develope Jesse Proulx: 'Some kids even consider blogging a new form of therapy.' ” (p.88)

[The Shifted Librarian]

well this is obviously a bad sign. combined with starting this blog, well, i can honestly say in all likelihood blogging is dead, long live blogging, etc. etc.

POMO Programming. Dethe has found a very funny … well, here's the relevant excerpt from the email he sent me: …there's a wonderful paper on Postmodern Programming. The authors presented this at OOPSLA last month, and it was one of the highlights of the conference for me. My favorite part is when they define the essence of the PoMo programming language: Languages get defined by the problems they solve. The first exercise for many programmers is to compute the first thousand prime numbers. Here's their solution: http://www.google.com/search?q=first%20thousand%20primes I thought you'd enjoy that, seeing as how it combines PoMo, Google, and a wickedly… [Joho the Blog]

i find this striking, moreso that other people find it so funny