Category: Internet and Media
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Dead Media and The Wayback Machine: ‘I Should Have Gone With .org’
In 1995, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker announced the Dead Media project, looking ahead (after a bit less than 5 years of public Websites) to the inevitable moment when the Web itself would become a dead medium. Think of it this way. How long will it be before the much-touted World Wide Web interface is…
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JoeLamantia.com archive: 15 Years of Thinking Out Loud
JoeLamantia.com complemented my formal professional work in technology, design, product, and strategy, beginning with the early(ish) Web moment of the middle 90s. For approximately 15 years, beginning about 2000, the site shared practice-related tools, methods, frameworks, industry and academic publications, professional presentations, and evolving perspectives (after 2006, genuinely raw thinking out loud mostly happened via…
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From Domain Hijacking to Offshore Digital Casino: My Blog Goes Cyberpunk
I first registered JoeLamantia.com in 2001. It was not serving an educational institution, or a military organization, or offering technical infrastructure, and obviously not a digital government site, so I chose the .com top-level suffix, meant for a general purpose Web presence. I’d founded a startup at the same time: an Asia-Pacific B2B marketplace for…