Top 5 culture-tech trends of 2019
Cross-posted from my Cybercultural newsletter. Every December going back to 2004, I’ve done an end-of-year review of the top Internet technology trends. This is my sixteenth year doing this, but the...
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The decade in culture-tech: streaming, binging, opining
Cross-posted from my Cybercultural newsletter. At the start of 2010 I was running ReadWriteWeb, a tech blog that helped define and chronicle the Web 2.0 era. We had run our first conference the...
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The internet’s impact on culture
“It feels like the internet’s impact on culture is just beginning. A world in which culture is based on the internet, which is what I think is happening, is just the very start. Right, ’cause it had...
View ArticleInternet amnesia: Clive James & his website
The writer and cultural critic Clive James died last November, at the age of 80. I mainly knew of James from his 1980s and 1990s tv shows, such as Clive James on Television and Saturday Night Clive....
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Hunkering down
Wow, 2020 got weird really quick. Like many of you, I’ve been in lockdown with my family over the past month, due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully we are safe and sound, and my country...
View ArticleRe-connecting
I’ve been working at The New Stack for five weeks now, and am enjoying it more than any other job I’ve had since ReadWriteWeb. A big part of that is due to the team of people I’m working with, who...
View ArticleWriters are builders too
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Silicon Valley VC Marc Andreessen posted the article IT’S TIME TO BUILD (and yes he did capitalize the title). The article was a call to arms, not only for...
View ArticleThe value of online writing today
I’ve been thinking lately about what value long-form writing has in the current internet era, which is dominated by a combination of video (e.g. YouTube), images (e.g. Instagram), ‘in the moment’...
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What’s exciting me on the cloud native internet
For the past few months, I’ve been writing a weekly tech column for The New Stack. The theme of the column is what’s next on the cloud native internet. It’s an update on my long-time blogging theme,...
View ArticleThe state of serverless
I’ve just finished a series of five columns for The New Stack about the serverless trend in cloud computing. It’s a terrible name, but basically serverless means removing all the backend burden for...
View ArticleMy latest project: Web Development History
This week I launched a new website: Web Development History. As the name suggests, it’ll be an ongoing chronicle of internet history — but from a development perspective. Most internet history books,...
View ArticleTech Trends for the 2020s and Why I’m Bullish on 3D Internet
Whatever you think of terms like “DotCom”, “Web 2.0” or “Web3”, it’s hard to deny that each internet era has its own unique characteristics. I posted recently on Twitter the following broad...
View ArticleFirst Blog Post in 2023
Crikey, has it been 15 months already? The previous blog post on ricmac.org was from last June and it was about the metaverse…hmm, that didn’t exactly pan out. Well anyway, today I added this blog to...
View ArticleWriting Content That’s Better Than AI
I came across the above tweet today from Joost de Valk, who was the founder of SEO product Yoast. For the benefit of those who can’t see the image, here is the main part (emphasis mine): If your...
View ArticleMy New Book: Bubble Blog, a Personal Memoir of Web 2.0
I’m excited to launch a project I’ve been working on for over a year now: a book called Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley’s Web 2.0 Revolution. I will be serializing the book on...
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