Global Spin

You may have noticed how quiet Global Spin has become, yet again. With the rise of Twitter and Reader and Tumblr and other such thing-share-ers, our little community no longer has much reason to post their thoughts to a group blog. In response, I’m quitting! … checks notes Oh wait, that’s not it… shuffles papers [...]

Posted by Chris in Animals, Technology, Web 2.0 on April 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I often see a word in print long before I hear it pronounced. That’s fine for most words—”antidisestablishmentarianism” isn’t actually that hard to deconstruct—but it can get me in trouble sometimes. For years I thought misled was pronounced “mizzled”, and I never did decide how envelope should sound. Now that’s going to be a lot [...]

Posted by Chris in Language, Technology, Web 2.0 on October 6th, 2009 | Comments Off

Brad just pointed out that Google Reader added new features familiar to Twitter and Facebook users: marking a post as something you “like” and setting a status message. They didn’t remove similar features, though, so the result is a blur of options: So when I want to remember something, do I “star” it or “like” [...]

Posted by Chris in Technology, Web 2.0 on July 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’m way overdue in letting people know about awesome things happening in San Diego, because there are currently too many awesome things happening in San Diego. To apologize, I implore you to attend BarCamp this weekend:

Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Making Stuff, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 2nd, 2008 | Comments Off

It’s difficult to find old high-school friends on the Web. Many of them don’t have any reason to publish pages with bylines or about themselves. It’s even harder when their names have changed since they left school (i.e. most of my friends from that time). That makes it tough to do a casual “where are [...]

Posted by Chris in Technology, Web 2.0 on February 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »