Gordon's Notes

In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline . In retrospect that was the end of the Berner...

TLDR: The "technological singularity" was an important and useful term with a clear meaning. Then it became the "Rapture of t...

Somewhere in my twitter stream mention was made of the "virtual camera" and its advantages for videoconferencing especially as a r...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

How, a friend asked, did I come up with the 40% number for “mass disability” that I quoted in  After Trump: reflections on mass disability i...

Remember when Google killed Google Reader Shares ? October 31, 2011.  RSS had been ailing for years by then . Google Reader shut down a coup...

Twitter is racing app.net to the grave. Google social is almost as forgotten as Apple’s flails. Maciej Cegłowski 's  Pinboard  though,...

My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

Today, for Emily and I, has been a not atypical mix of frustrating interactions across government, school and the private sector. There’s a...

Google Reader died just 3 years ago . It feels a lot longer, I’m probably thinking of when Google burned Reader Social in favor of their G+ ...

It wasn’t the MacBook Air’s SSD problem confounded by encryption usability problems and the “Update Needed” ghost user. [2] It wasn’t the c...

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

I made another stab at sharing images to Facebook Groups. It didn’t go any better than my previous efforts. First I tried using Facebook’s ...

My feeds (Feedbin/Reeder) have never gone quiet — but there’s no doubt it was getting harder to find links to feeds over the two years since...

Years ago, based on the recommendation of a web site that might have been something like Wirecutter, we bought a low cost Amazon sound bar f...

iTunes Radio is at least partly funded by music purchases. But now people don't buy music, they stream it. Similarly, we rent movies, w...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

My oldest wants to learn to play drums. Learning is difficult for him, and the Smart Music program his school uses is obviously too sophisti...