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Jun 27
2009

Movin’ on Up!

HAINSWORTH.COM switches web hosting providers to Bluehost.com to improve site reliability after sluggish database response from previous provider, Pair.


Apr 29
2009

The Trouble with Twitter: Quitters

More than 60% of Twitter users abandon the service after the first month. Here’s how to ensure this phenomenon grows beyond its current fad status. When it comes to the Internet, there are trends and there are fads. During the net’s infancy, enough companies created websites to make the move to the Information Superhighway (remember [...]


Mar 17
2009

The Trouble with Twitters

I certainly see the irony in blogging about Twitter. But damn, I just don’t get the point of it.


Feb 27
2009

Josh Sullivan, The 21st Century Hobo

Today’s kids would call him a couch surfer. My Dad’s generation would have called him a wander. And my grandfather would have called him a hobo. You can call him Josh Sullivan. The 27 year old has ditched his day job to document the 52 weeks he’ll staying with 52 different people in 52 different [...]


Feb 21
2009

Internet loves porn, believes in evolution

You discover all sorts of unusual things combing the logs and statistics at HAINSWORTH.COM. It was no surprise that Porn airs during Super Bowl Game was the most popular article here. What surprises me more is that Darwin Poster: Very Gradual Change We Can Believe In surpassed it. When a Tuscon, Arizona Comcast feed of [...]


Feb 19
2009

Facebook’s About Face, and why Digital Democracy Stinks

After unleashing a firestorm of anger from the blogging community about Facebook’s quiet attempt to change its Terms of Service that retroactively makes them the owner of all the photos, videos and other personal content you upload to the social networking site, the company has done an about face. From blog.facebook.com: Going forward, we’ve decided [...]


Feb 17
2009

Facebook Now Owns Your Content

UPDATE! See: Facebook’s About Face, and why Digital Democracy Stinks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is saying, “trust me” after the insanely popular social networking site quietly changed its terms of service. Everything the site’s 175,000,000 users upload, from personal photos to videos and everything in between, is now property of Facebook. They can do whatever [...]


Feb 02
2009

The Amazing Bunnycam, a Retrospective

The Amazing Bunnycam, a Retrospective

In the late 1990s I launched THEAMAZINGBUNNYCAM.COM to keep me interested in my then-girlfriend's rabbits. To this date the site still gets hits despite being offline for 8 years. Here's a look back.


Jan 31
2009

This site may harm your computer!

Google screwed up. Early Saturday morning the world’s biggest search engine marked every website on the Intertubes as a site that “may harm your computer!” Within an hour or so, the problem was fixed. What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message “This site may harm your computer” if the [...]


Jan 29
2009

Imagine if you will… the future of newspapers

KRON-TV in San Fransisco asks you to “imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your “home computer“ to read the day’s newspapers.” According to this 1981 report, “it’s not as far fetched as it may seem.” This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean [...]


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