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This weekend I was thinking about the recent history of publishing content: What are the innovations and trends of the past? What is in the near future? Let me give you a few examples of the kind...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2020/07/13/what-is-the-most-exciting-thing-in-publishing-today/

In 1975, BusinessWeek magazine imagined the rise of the paperless office as computer use became more widespread. Of course, over the following two decades, consumption of paper doubled. A couple ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/08/09/more-people-than-bots/

Andrew Sullivan’s ending of his 15 years of blogging has sparked discussion about the health of blogging in 2015. I started blogging in 2004, pre-Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and the like. A frie...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/02/03/what-sucks-about-blogging-and-how-to-fix-it/

There has been a wave of information about the computing environment and networking capabilities of North Korea coming out in the past week. Vice reported on the the release of a torrent of RedSt...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/09/computing-in-north-korea/

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada announced $9 million dollars in funding in partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T for something called the “Digital Public Sq...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/08/foreign-affairs-cash-but-no-plan/

Cory Doctorow’s new book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is ostensibly a guide for creators on how to approach the Internet, and does so in an extremely informative, yet conversational ma...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/03/the-means-of-information/

Over 2014 I saw the rise of mobile in a new light. The web is diminishing as the window to the internet. Benedict Evans expressed it well in the most recent a16z podcast: New questions in mobile ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2015/01/01/mobile-induced-disestablishmentarianism/

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qKk8MHFLNNE?rel=0 I added SSL to this site earlier this year. I have committed to adding HSTS and PFS. This stuff should all be default and would be great i...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2014/06/02/reset-the-net/

Evgeny Morozov’s intellectual assaults on “cyber utopianism” and “internet centrism” are well known — if often dismissed by the tech elite. I have been reading his new book To Save Ev...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2014/01/20/politics-over-politech/

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon I have owned this book for more than a year, and now that I have finally read it I have to say it was pr...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/12/31/consent-of-the-networked/

See all photos For our final night in San Francisco before heading back to Canada, we saw the Lost Landscapes of San Francisco show which was put on to benefit the Internet Archive which suffered...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/12/19/the-internet-archive/

Photo c/o Shane Austin These are the resources for the discussion at OKDG tonight: codingfreedom.com by Gabriella Coleman IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black Adversarial Design by Carl DiSalvo T...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/10/24/okdg-discussion-developers-and-designers-as-ethical/

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Andy Greenberg NOTE: Originally posted on Medium. This book is really a footnoted conversation between Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/06/24/cypherpunks/

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Since I read This Machine Kills Secrets first, this book seems particularly dangerous to ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2013/06/02/the-new-banality/

In my last post I explored the characteristics of public intellectuals and pointed out that they are defined somewhat by their audience; which has recently become fragmented to the detriment of t...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/11/25/smart-masses/

Much like the cliché of society, the state of public intellectualism seems to be eternally in decline. Yet in the early 21st century, I think we have a legitimate claim to this omen. I propose t...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/11/12/from-belletrist-to-blogger/

This is a follow-up post to Information Fast where I pledged to constrain my information intake for the month of September in an experiment. Let’s start with a brief after action report: Fast r...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/30/breaking-fast/

To my knowledge, Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age is Steven Johnson’s first attempt at pamphleteering. The other books of his that I have read — The Invention of Air, ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/28/peer-progressivism/

Remarkable that two books released this month advocate eschewing hierarchy for network-based approaches to changing society. The books in question are: Startup Communities: Building an Entreprene...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/22/organization-of-no-organization/

The pledge: For the month of September I pledge to limit my media consumption. This means no Twitter, Google+, Path, Tumblr, Hacker News, Popurls , Intigi or Zite. It means no Apple blogs. It mea...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/01/information-fast/

Harjj Taggar removed email from his iPhone. Some choice quotes: Having time to think is precious to me and it’s also incredibly important if you want to achieve anything close to original thoug...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/08/30/time-to-think-revisited/

A friend has abandoned Twitter. He is pretty early, but I suspect he is at the front of a potentially huge geek wave. I know what it is like to leave a platform. It can be tough, but there are a ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/08/27/some-thoughts-on-the-potential-twitter-exodus/

I have read a number of his works, including Emergence: And so, over time, a book I had written about social insects and video games and software algorithms started to feel more and more like a b...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/08/13/steven-b-johnsons-new-book-on-the-internet-and/

David Silverman is the blogger behind instantbight.com, popularized recently for his simple 5 Question Interviews of technorati. Looking at the list you might recognize some people that I mention...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/06/15/instantbight-profile/

Check out the smoking desktop he designed! See my interview of instantbight.com Instantbight.com: Interview with Chad Kohalyk…

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/06/15/instantbight-com-interview-with-chad-kohalyk/

Chad on www.flickr.com Yahoo’s lack of innovation is one thing, but what really drives me bonkers about Flickr is the terrible video support. Maybe 1 in 10 of my video uploads are successful. I...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/04/14/replacing-flickr/

After posting my Google+ rant on Google+ I thought more about what kinds of social networking services I use, and how many I have abandoned in the past. I put them all together in the graphic abo...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/03/17/social-network-audit/

My Google+ rant on Google+

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/03/17/my-google-rant-on-google/

What if the phone company gave you free unlimited phone calls but they could record, monitor and sell your phone calls and information about what you said on them. Anil Dash in a conversation abo...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/03/04/what-if-the-phone-company-gave-you-free-unlimited/

The wife got me the Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection boxed (17 discs) set for our anniversary. Yes, well, she got me Lord of the Rings for another anniversary, so it is already well e...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/02/14/warner-bros-you-are-doing-it-wrong/

Likelihood of Typing “www” When Going to a Website

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/02/07/likelihood-of-typing-www-when-going-to-a-website/

http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf mashable: “Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/01/19/nopa/

I have a had a really tough time in Japan so far. Free WiFi in Kyoto is nearly non-existent. The choppy Shijo network is my only oasis, and it is pretty grimy. Being disconnected from the web tou...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/01/15/b-mobile-fail/

MLS FAIL: A tale of two many plugins I wanted to hear MLS Commissioner Don Barber speak about BC Place but I ended up getting a terribly unhelpful message to install Flash, with no fall back. Not...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/10/03/mls-fail-2/

MLS FAIL: A tale of two many plugins I wanted to hear MLS Commissioner Don Barber speak about BC Place but I ended up getting a terribly unhelpful message to install Flash, with no fall back. Not...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/10/03/mls-fail/

Interesting analysis from Adam Acar. See the Risks in part 3. The Problem with Facebook in Japan

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/06/27/the-problem-with-facebook-in-japan/

Rushkoff’s appeal for a wider understanding of our rapidly changing technological environment seems like it might be the typical anachronistic song for simpler times, heard throughout humankind...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/05/27/program-or-be-programmed/

jacobjoaquin: r03: Urban Sql injection. WIN! Via HackerNews

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/02/19/traffic-cam-sql-injection-2/

jacobjoaquin: r03: Urban Sql injection. WIN! Via HackerNews

https://chadkohalyk.com/2011/02/19/traffic-cam-sql-injection/

“There is no shelf” An amazing video homage to the evolution of information on the web. via www.everythingismiscellaneous.com (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/12/29/there-is-no-shelf-an-amazing-video-homage-to/

My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to be more public on the web. Thus I am changing all my usernames and identities from to reflect my real name. I have been thinking about this for some time...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/12/02/coming-out/

cameronmoll: Josh Duck put together a nicely designed table showing the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements. Bonus: Enter the URL for any site to see which...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/11/30/periodic-table-of-the-html5-elements/

Facebook500M Powered by Tableau via RWW

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/07/25/interactive-map-of-facebook-users/

http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Inspiring talk by Ethan Zuckerman. Excellent point on how unevenly distributed “global” online media is. It is something I have felt for...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/07/16/inspiring-talk-by-ethan-zuckerman-excellent-point/

papadimitriou: Scarcity. Abundance. Indulgences. Modern Media. Clay Shirky. More from btnn.tv (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/07/14/papadimitriou-scarcity-abundance-indulgences/

Today I was talking to the guy who was 2nd in the 1200 person line at the Ginza Apple Store iPad launch day. He said that people were using Twitter while waiting, complaining about the cold and h...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/05/31/example-of-the-webs-free-culture-crossing-into-the/

One of the biggest fears in deleting your Facebook profile is the lack of alternatives. The sheer monopoly that Facebook has in the SNS space is overwhelming, making it hard to abandon ship. The ...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/05/15/forcing-facebook-to-federate-a-question-for-developers/

For the past 2 weeks I have been seriously considering deleting my Facebook account. The tech community is rife with doubts about how Facebook is running its business, and where it is going in th...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/05/14/farewell-facebook/

An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC all...

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/04/17/substandard-web-browsing-experience-on-the-ipad-and/

A vision of networked computer interaction (quasi-internet?) from 1969. Via The Strategist (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://chadkohalyk.com/2010/04/07/a-vision-of-networked-computer-interaction/