So this happened at 9:30 on Monday (8/15/16) night. I haven’t seen Twitter go down in awhile. No one is immune from a site outage, not even the big boys. Excuse the Facebook notification in the lower right hand corner, which is ironic if you ask me.
Tag Archives: world wide web
In The Headlines, Beware of Clickbait
On Facebook we all have friends who post news clips and other posts from dodgy sources. A website with a strange name that just looks made up, more times than not those sites are clickbait that feature content of a sensational headlines. Usually they are meant to generate online advertising revenue. We have all fallen for those headlines that make us want to find out more because of an article that we find interesting. However, it can be frustrating when you visit those sites only to be disappointed by the content and also the massive amount of ads and further clickbait articles that takes you down a deeper hole. Be careful about where you click.
My philosophy is simple when posting news and other articles on my blog and on Facebook. If its a brand name like CBS, CNN, ABC, BBC, ITV, Huffington Post, The Independent, Buzz Feed, USA Today and the like I will share it. Anything that sounds just made up then you won’t see it from me. I will share articles from satire sites like The Onion or The Babylon Bee (a Christian satire site similar to the Onion). My site will feature shared links, video, embedded Tweets and other media. It’s important to vary the type of content I share.
In a world where we are so inundated with information you have to be careful. Reliable sources with a heritage of sharing accurate information is what you will find here. I owe it to you my fellow bloggers that if I am sharing the news and current events of the day that you can believe it. Clickbait is a nuisance and it can lead to someone being grossly misinformed. Use sites like Snopes and do a Google search to see if what you are looking at is indeed a true story.
Before you share an article, check its source. Some things are too good to be true and you might be padding someone’s advertising budget.
The world’s first website went online 25 years ago today – Telegraph UK
On this day 25 years ago the world’s first website went live to the public. The site, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected to other pages.Via The world’s first website went online 25 years ago today
Wow, it’s hard to believe the first website went live 25 years ago. It is a revolutionary thing that has changed the world and how we live. Thank you Sir. Tim Berners-Lee for your vision and know how to make this whole thing work.
The Big Internet Brands Of The ’90s — Where Are They Now? : All Tech Considered : NPR
What happened to all those other big brands that dominated the early Internet experience? Here’s a nerdy remembrance of a few of them.
Source: The Big Internet Brands Of The ’90s — Where Are They Now? : All Tech Considered : NPR
I first got online back in 1995 after I bought a computer that could get on the World Wide Web. I had other computers that accessed Prodigy and some Bulletin Board Systems. The 1990’s were kind of the beginnings of the commercial Internet. I do miss those days but I kind of like the blogging and social media of the here and now. NPR’s report gives us a historical look back to the early Web.
Verizon Ends Yahoo Independence With $4.83 Billion Deal – Bloomberg
Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy Yahoo! Inc.’s web assets for $4.83 billion, ending the company’s two-decade run as an independent business that took it from Stanford University startup at the dawn of the internet age to also-ran behind nimbler online rivals such as Google and Facebook Inc. Verizon Ends Yahoo Independence With $4.83 Billion Deal – Bloomberg
I have used Yahoo off and on over the past 20 years of being on the World Wide Web. Yahoo Mail was the thing back in the day and almost everyone had an address.
Hearing the news of the sale to Verizon saddens me a little because this was a once mighty company who made the Internet what it is today and they sold just to survive. Verizon earlier bought AOL which is another old tech company everyone used. Yahoo didn’t innovate fast enough and they weren’t ready for the mobile revolution we see today. I have a history with Tumblr which was bought by Yahoo awhile back and it will be interesting to see how this plays out there. I think Verizon will do some good things but I don’t expect Yahoo to remain what it is today or what it was yesterday.
Chrome and Firefox, The Best Browsers for Blogging
If you are using Internet Explorer or its predecessor then you aren’t experiencing the blogosphere at its best. For years Microsoft dominated the desktop/laptop but not any more. Chrome and Firefox are the two browsers to use these days for just about anything. Some apps and websites are still dependent on them but that is changing as the tech landscape is changing. In terms of rendering, speed, security and compliance the products from Mozilla and Google are the best. So if you are blogging or reading blogs, Chrome and Firefox are the way to go. WordPress, Tumblr, Squarespace, work just fine using Chrome and Firefox.
This blog is primarly written and updated by Chromebook so using Chrome is what I recommend. Also this blog is best experienced with a broadband connection. I don’t know anyone using dial-up much anymore.
Keep on blogging whether it be on desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
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