The Atlantic Monthly’s Website Redesign & Hosted Comments

Between Thursday night and Friday morning of this past week The Atlantic launched a new website redesign and switched the comments on the various blogs from self-hosted to Disqus hosted comments. My first shock upon my morning review of the website was the new…

Facebook: Why I Hate Facebook & How I Came to Sort of Like it on Occasion

I have social networking fatigue and I have had it for years. I jumped on my first alt.music board/list in 1994 and have been full bore ahead on mailing lists, alt.music, bulletin boards, message boards, groups, friendster, myspace, flickr, twitter, facebook, jaiku, ad finitum,…