https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar 2021-02-19T19:59:58+00:00 https://neal.fun/ten-years-ago/ matthewmcvickarSee what the internet looked like on February 19th, 2011. See what it looked like ten years today for a handful of popular sites (CNN, NYT, Amazon, Apple, IMDb, GoodReads, etc.).]]> archive internet web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d63356265769/ 2020-12-18T19:10:54+00:00 http://drawing.garden/ matthewmcvickar🌱 A small project by Ben Moren: gardening, but with emojis and less time 🌿]]> emoji web art https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d1fbd7202d2e/ 2018-11-27T17:01:38+00:00 https://medium.com/tootsuite/how-to-start-a-mastodon-server-dea0dec56028 matthewmcvickarThe non-technical parts.]]> mastodon tech web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b3fe47b7fc63/ 2018-11-27T17:00:46+00:00 https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/ matthewmcvickar mastodon sysadmin web tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:30cd5d23ba6f/ 2016-01-04T20:23:08+00:00 http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hypertext-for-all/ matthewmcvickarThere’s an old saw about the web that says that when the web democratized publishing, everyone should have become a writer, but instead most of us became consumers. (Nevermind that email and SMS have most people writing more in a day than their Victorian ancestors wrote in their entire lives.) There’s more than a hint of disparagement and elitism in that saying: everyone should have taken up writing, which is obviously superior to reading or watching or (gasp!) consuming. And I worry that that same sentiment creeps in when we argue the supremacy of text over image on the web. Writing is an important and valuable skill, but so are many other things. Here’s another way to think about it: over the past year, video after video has emerged showing cops shooting unarmed black people. Those videos have been shared on the web, and while they haven’t yet led to anything resembling justice for the victims, they have contributed to profound discussions around race, militarized police forces, guns, and more. They are not sufficient to bring about desperately needed social change—and there’s an argument to be made about whether they are at risk of becoming mere spectacle—but I think it would be hard to deny that they are an important element in the movement, that they have had a major impact. … I worry that the push to keep the web defined to words, while pragmatic and reasonable in many ways, may also be used to decide what stories get told, and what stories are heard. Many more people are using their tiny computers to record video and audio and take pictures than are writing; as much as I may love writing, and as much as I know that transmitting writing via cables and air is a hell of a lot easier and cheaper than transmitting video, I’m not sure I can really stand here and say that the writing is—or should be—primary. One of the design principles of the web is to pave the cowpaths: it looks to me like there are some new paths opening up, ones we may not have expected, ones that aren’t going to make many of our jobs easier. Maybe instead of putting up signs saying there are better paths elsewhere, it’s time we see where these ones take us.]]> internet web writing images video archive https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:80d511ad92f9/ 2014-11-21T22:00:12+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/group-rules-web matthewmcvickarThe Web started out as a way to publish and share documents. It is now an operating system: a big, digital sensory apparatus that can tell you about your phone’s battery life, record and transmit your voice, manage your e-mail and your chats, and give you games to play. It can do this all at once, and with far less grand of a design than you might assume.]]> web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:8d8d8b645fe8/ 2013-08-29T21:33:19+00:00 http://justdelete.me/ matthewmcvickarA directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.]]> internet web socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:97ddb84e6d94/ 2012-06-30T10:43:39+00:00 http://dashes.com/anil/2012/06/clouds-for-people-or-the-consumerization-of-the-cloud.html matthewmcvickarThrough this lens, a huge part of the entire mobile app phenomenon that iPhone really catalyzed is merely an impact of moving so much computing power to the edge of the mobile phone network, instead of trying to provide so many services through archaic centralized infrastructure. Put simply: Move the brains to the edge of the network, and you get great new kinds of apps. We don't know what the Angry Birds or Draw Something of the server-side web app world looks like right now, because right now there's no way for consumers to buy it.]]> apps software web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:838d88b7138d/ 2012-06-18T10:39:30+00:00 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ matthewmcvickarPaul Ford: I don’t really make decisions. Instead, I pick my friends carefully. Then I go where people ask me to go; when no one needs me to go anywhere or do anything I work on longer essays that I’ll publish some day.]]> interview writing technology internet web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:eef99d43c561/ 2012-05-24T22:11:19+00:00 http://nymag.com/news/features/future-of-facebook-2012-5/ matthewmcvickarWhich brings us back to the question: Have we reached peak Facebook? And no, we haven’t. Even if Facebook never adds another user, it will keep growing: It has become a fundamental substrate, a difficult-to-avoid component of any site or app that requires users to register—making it essential to nearly every major web innovation now and in the future. There’s a related question: Is Facebook ever going to be cool again? That’s like asking “Is the phone company cool?” The interface may not be exciting anymore, but the network is very, very cool, in the disruptively awesome way that enormous things are: volcanoes, aircraft carriers, the New Deal.]]> facebook internet web technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:547267b5ea86/ 2012-05-21T01:05:46+00:00 http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet matthewmcvickar business flickr photography internet web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:eeb84509abd6/ 2012-04-11T18:05:13+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/10/dylans-desk-why-instagram-is-worth-1-billion-and-your-startup-isnt/ matthewmcvickarInstagram succeeded for many good reasons, including its design, its viral qualities, its simplicity, and the fact that its engineers focused so obsessively on making sure that it works all the time. Part of its success, no doubt, is the fact that it was just in the right place, at the right time, with the right, crowd-pleasing mix of features.]]> money startup design business web photography facebook technology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:af6478862760/ 2012-02-12T04:21:00+00:00 http://waxy.org/2012/02/the_perpetual_invisible_window_into_your_gmail_inbox/ matthewmcvickar facebook google security oauth web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:4a9600339104/ 2012-01-08T20:47:19+00:00 http://dashes.com/anil/2012/01/foursquare-todays-best-executing-startup.html matthewmcvickar web iOS apps https://instapaper.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0b5bef5bdc98/ 2011-11-20T12:28:11+00:00 http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ matthewmcvickar technology web social https://instapaper.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2f5ebce49b05/ 2011-11-16T02:07:44+00:00 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games socialnetworking society sociology web politics internet corporate https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3aa0699503d2/ 2009-03-26T11:13:18+00:00 http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week5/#cover matthewmcvickar design writing web culture internet typography graphics infographics statistics information world people https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:47de051033fa/ 2009-03-13T22:32:41+00:00 http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/should-the-government-regulate-net-neutrality matthewmcvickar netneutrality technology web business society internet government debate economics https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:adb51bf89d0d/ 2009-03-03T21:32:50+00:00 http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/readability.php matthewmcvickar design web internet typography usability javascript browser clutter useful https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:24493001e4cb/ 2009-01-24T00:45:59+00:00 http://fiftypeopleonequestion.com/ matthewmcvickar art people web film video inspiration culture social ideas love documentary life storytelling viral https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e8d4a0c7f5ec/ 2009-01-15T04:53:58+00:00 http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/by_any_other_name/ matthewmcvickar writing history web technology books future ebooks https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:f14bbc6bc2b2/ 2008-12-10T19:43:07+00:00 http://ditchnet.org/httpclient/ matthewmcvickar software osx web webdevelopment opensource internet http https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c87c9146f7f3/ 2008-12-10T04:53:55+00:00 http://theperceptron.com/ matthewmcvickar music web api recommendations startups network blogs https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:12029c0ddc8f/ 2008-10-25T07:30:05+00:00 http://www.clubinternet.org/ matthewmcvickar art web internet gallery https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:35c95aefbdbe/ 2008-09-06T02:47:49+00:00 http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone matthewmcvickar audio flash mp3 web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b21973e0e654/ 2008-08-02T22:46:05+00:00 http://css-tricks.com/color-rendering-difference-firefox-vs-safari/ matthewmcvickar color webdesign photoshop web safari firefox images https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:c18984d0e350/ 2008-06-16T16:50:01+00:00 http://lonelysandwich.com/post/37959055/obama-open-house matthewmcvickar america politics web internet community obama https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0725eabeb0ba/ 2008-04-27T12:19:34+00:00 http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/1106_somethings_m.php matthewmcvickar criticism webdesign design web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:440619c4a5dd/ 2008-01-28T08:08:24+00:00 http://publishing2.com/2008/01/24/digg-demonstrates-the-failure-of-completely-open-collaborative-networks/ matthewmcvickar digg web socialnetworking news community https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:17da515edd67/ 2008-01-16T23:34:04+00:00 http://twitter.com/help/lingo matthewmcvickar twitter communication howto reference socialnetworking web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:1f09726c5ff2/ 2007-12-31T10:41:46+00:00 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2007_top_10_web_tech_stories.php matthewmcvickar web technology news https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:11992cd4a865/ 2007-12-30T20:19:19+00:00 http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/12/are-dead-tree-m.html matthewmcvickar environment green media web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:bc6f2d85e94d/ 2007-11-23T20:58:51+00:00 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/ matthewmcvickar media advertising business ethics internet marketing social web youtube viral video https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ee6a41b9f148/ 2007-11-21T02:42:50+00:00 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss matthewmcvickar typography web webdevelopment webdesign css3 howto grid https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:52acea65c0c7/ 2007-11-12T22:04:44+00:00 http://www.revision3.com/webdrifter/peterpan matthewmcvickar web celebrity interview video https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:fd2f40b98f66/ 2007-10-12T19:10:44+00:00 http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php matthewmcvickar flickr photography web webapp https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:8ba317ab5b97/ 2007-09-18T03:46:02+00:00 http://www.ponoko.com/about/thebigidea matthewmcvickar internet web manufacturing shopping https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:644bcc65d398/ 2007-09-18T01:15:29+00:00 http://rainfall-daffinson.com/minimalism/ matthewmcvickar apple webdesign design interface web internet minimalism https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:83852cb2efba/ 2007-09-06T06:34:37+00:00 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_open_platform_advantage.php matthewmcvickar socialnetworking social web webdevelopment https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:356ca2148c07/ 2007-09-06T04:22:17+00:00 http://opensocialweb.org/2007/09/05/bill-of-rights/ matthewmcvickar socialnetworking web manifesto socialsoftware facebook https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:768c7bfb3f3f/ 2007-07-08T16:50:17+00:00 http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2005/08/68329 matthewmcvickar identity20 web social internet future https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:cca90c92ffca/ 2007-07-08T16:43:50+00:00 http://asn.planetwork.net/whitepaper.html matthewmcvickar community identity technology web internet future https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:70053c64f1c5/ 2007-07-08T15:02:53+00:00 http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ matthewmcvickar identity20 privacy web future technology society sxip https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ba98b1629fc4/ 2007-06-18T16:59:35+00:00 http://kimblim.dk/csstest matthewmcvickar css html web webdevelopment webdesign https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7334671396c7/ 2007-06-14T19:00:44+00:00 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks matthewmcvickar video technology talks ted inspiration ideas creativity design business future media science presentation people speech web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:940db6176fca/ 2007-06-09T20:41:31+00:00 http://particletree.com/features/10-tips-to-a-better-form/ matthewmcvickar forms webdesign html design web css https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a2a13b9c3672/ 2007-06-07T02:02:52+00:00 http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography/ matthewmcvickar typography design webdesign fonts css web text https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:8cded6d4d463/ 2007-06-05T15:58:26+00:00 http://instantdomainsearch.com/ matthewmcvickar ajax domain whois web webdevelopment https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:585b928b5953/ 2007-06-05T15:41:40+00:00 http://www.colorjack.com/ matthewmcvickar color design webdesign CSS web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e52b112029db/ 2007-06-01T03:55:10+00:00 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/31/the-new-portals-its-the-bread-not-the-peanut-butter/ matthewmcvickar business media social web facebook future socialnetworking webapp https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:ec7d7a290889/ 2007-05-31T17:56:57+00:00 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_grows_up.php#more matthewmcvickar facebook web webapp future https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:e705cbddf971/ 2007-04-09T12:06:04+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09blog.html?ex=1333857600&en=8df0ef9fe934fc04&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink matthewmcvickar blog web freespeech https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:9ad2eee01645/ 2006-05-07T05:47:36+00:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2134397/ matthewmcvickar politics web technology https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:07f27a20e9bf/ 2006-05-07T05:46:32+00:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2140850/fr/rss/ matthewmcvickarweb technology politics https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:167f30e875ec/ 2005-12-16T07:58:48+00:00 http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/15/wikipedia.ap/index.html matthewmcvickar web https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:2f0761a6a4fc/ 2005-12-16T02:30:12+00:00 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