david wolfpaw

digital citizen

Month: July 2016

  • This Week in Web #30

    This Week in Web #30

    Yahoo Down. Long Live Yahoo? Yahoo is a bellwether of the internet, having existed nearly as long as the world wide web, and serving as the portal along with AOL for most early users of the web. Like AOL, Yahoo is one of the largest sources of news and content on the web, yet it…

  • This Week in Web #29

    This Week in Web #29

    I’m still recovering from a few weeks away from the internets. Somehow I got more time to read new articles last week than this one, so apologies for the brevity this week. Thank you to Lisa for taking over for the last few weeks and adding a new voice to the newsletter! No More Twitter…

  • This Week in Web #28

    Contrary to your social media feeds, Pokemon Go is NOT the only web news this week! While the gaming app has dominated computer and traditional media, turned society on its heads, and created a slew of new job opportunities (Pokemon Drivers, $20/hour), you can find all that information bombarding you on other news channels. We’re…

  • This Week in Web #27

    david’s on vacation, and he foolishly left TWiW in my hands for the next two weeks! Don’t worry, it’s the same garden variety internet oddities you’ve come to know and love, just written by me, Lisa (the lmelegari that contributes all the time). Pope Francis Turns to YouTubers To Promote Positive Influence Brian Crecente, Polygon…

  • This Week in Web #26

    This Week in Web #26

    Sixty Years of AI It was the summer of 1956 when a team of computer scientists convened at Dartmouth college for the first summit on artificial intelligence. Since then the predictions made at the conference (which was based on the assumption that a handful of researchers could crack the problem with a few years of…