Net ​nostalgia: the online museums preserving dolphin gifs and spinning Comic Sans

Jason Scott is a “guerilla internet archivist”. Someone’s got to be. If you’ve got some content embedded in a site that’s about to disappear, then he and his team of coders and data engineers go in there and “Ocean’s Eleven” the joint. In the name of digital archaeology, they migrate as much data as they can to a safe harbour even as the main site goes down. “We swoop in and, to the best of our ability, take a snapshot,” he says.

Scott is interested in conserving the stuff we have forgotten has value. Increasingly, our culture plays itself out on the internet, yet even now we have a tendency to view what we do on there as trivial. Or we make the mistake of assuming that digital means for ever. “The problem is, the internet’s systems have been designed as though everything goes on indefinitely,” he says. “There are no agreed-upon shutdown procedures. When users die, what do you do? Because their accounts live on, and suddenly Facebook is telling you your dead friend also likes Snickers bars. Often, you don’t even know who’s running a site. It’s as if you didn’t know who was in charge of your water supply; then one day, it just stopped ...”

 

Entrepreneurs, It’s So Easy To DIY!

Not every person is cut out to do business, and very few make it to a successful experience. This is what my friend Dave told me that day as we sat drinking coffee at his patio one evening. As usual, I was trying my best to convince him to get rid of his depressed outlook and really try to do something major. He was feeling really down on his luck because his recent plans had backfired, and he was in no mood to try anything again, but in my opinion, all he really needed was the right approach. Luck has very little to do with real life success Dave, I told him, and what it really takes is guts, and a lot of hard work. I kept up my persuasive arguments for I knew my friend to be a really good fellow, and in the end he agreed. He wanted to start his own business!

GivingTuesday Roundup: 12 Typography Resources on SlideShare

In this day and age of global recognition for brands, internet and social networks are playing a key role in bringing corporations from different regions of the world together. As the more brands emerge, the circle of consumers’ needs also expands. To give exposure to both the sellers and the customers, online social networks introduce advance tools and platforms to establish ties between them. In 2012, LinkedIn took acquisition of a slide hosting service based on Web 2.0 known as SlideShare. Founded in 2006, it is considered the world’s largest community for knowledge sharing through presentations and documents.

BIG CHANGES ARE AFOOT IN THE WAY THE INTERNET WORKS

BIG CHANGES ARE AFOOT IN THE WAY THE INTERNET WORKS and 'net neutrality' is a conundrum with so much misinformation, confusion and media lip service floating around that no one seems to really know what's going on. Two things are for sure: it is NOT going away, and it IS going to be a media feeding frenzy.

Upside-down pros and cons

This is going to be a long, miserable, and potentially damaging struggle; primarily because the two sides of the argument have gotten themselves upside-down. Those in favor of neutrality are crying: please don't regulate so the 'little guy' and everyone else can be free to do as they please. Yet those are the ones currently exploiting and profiteering off 'the little guy.'

 

As the day of love-filled emotions approaches near,

As the day of love-filled emotions approaches near, it is time that we bring down the curtain on our Valentine’s Day Pick up Line contest that ended on 12th February 2014.

To give a quick overview, a week ago we launched an exciting contest for our readers where we asked you guys to submit funny and catchy pick up lines in our comment section that you think are best to use on Valentine’s Day.

We received a decent response from our valued readers some of which included extremely clever and quick-witted pick up lines. We have to admit, it was really difficult for us to pick the best 3 as all submissions were really interesting and amusing in their own unique ways.

However, here is the list of lucky winners who, as promised earlier, will be receiving a perfectly designed V-tine’s Day card with a ‘couples’ monogram on it courtesy of DesignMantic, the premier logo maker tool on the internet. Congratulations!

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