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Monthly Archives: August 2008

The End of the Internet is Here

The end of the Internet as we know it has arrived. Comcast has confirmed the long-standing rumor that they would implement a 250GB monthly bandwidth cap. This may be a “generous” cap, depending on how you look at it, but if duplicated by the other broadband ISPs, it spells the end of high bandwidth video [...]

Silverlight > Cable

I was watching the Democractic National Convention speeches on their website and I realized that the quality of the Silverlight video was much better than the blurry, low resolution, basic cable signal I get on my TV. I’ve thought in the past that a time would come where I could simply get rid of cable [...]

Links for 2008-08-11 [del.icio.us]

Internet Memes(tags: web2.0 visualization humor weblog )

Links for 2008-07-31 through 2008-08-01 [del.icio.us]

Last GuyA japanese game that turns any website into a battlefield.(tags: games flash web2.0 weblog ) An anthropological introduction to YouTubePresented at the Library of Congress.(tags: video sociology anthropology culture youtube weblog )