A one time compromise of my rebel ways to purchase a share of social relevance.
Entries from March 2014
Smart Phones, Gawking Gophers and the Price of Relevance
March 28th, 2014 Comments Off on Smart Phones, Gawking Gophers and the Price of Relevance
Tags: metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · online poll · smart phone · social relevance
Reluctant Spring Peeking through Winter’s Shroud
March 22nd, 2014 Comments Off on Reluctant Spring Peeking through Winter’s Shroud
For better or worse, I am wedded to spring – even though she seems reluctant to arrive this year.
Tags: Aldo Leopold · Bernard Williams · George Santayana · Henry Van Dyke · Mark Twain · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · spring
Archie, Mosaic, Yahoo and Google: 25 Remarkable Years
March 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Archie, Mosaic, Yahoo and Google: 25 Remarkable Years
A brief look at the landmarks in the development of the World Wide Web on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Tags: Archie · Creeper · Google · internet · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Mosaic · World Wide Web · Yahoo
Reveling in the Supreme Mystery of Migration
March 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Reveling in the Supreme Mystery of Migration
Why I choose to embrace the mystery of migration rather than the quest to reduce it to facts.
Tags: bird migration · enigma · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · mystery
W4: The War of the Algorithms
March 1st, 2014 Comments Off on W4: The War of the Algorithms
A tongue-in-cheek look at what a simple bug in a social media application could unleash.
Tags: algorithm · bug · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · metaphor · Michael Dyet · social media · Twitter