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It is 2023. XHTML is dead and buried. HTML is a "living standard" with billions of users. So what kind of idiot would want to build a website using XML? Me. I am that idiot. Last year, I launched a "web page" which didn't use HTML. Called, appropriately enough, "YOU DON'T NEED HTML!" That (ab)used [...]

Our #DigitalEconomy has experienced several rapid waves of evolution. It began with Dotcom companies, where over exuberance saw fortunes lost when the tech b...

Let's be real, you're going to compare yourself to this and then proceed to contemplate all your life decisions and spiral into depression. (unless you're a recruiter... in which case, I just want you to know that I thrive in inserting generic keywords (like delight and empathy) and ending sentences at the intersection of art and technology.

A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.

In the frenzy to attract venture capital funding and draw new users and investors into blockchain technologies, 'how will this technology be used to harass and abuse people?' is going unasked. While blockchain proponents speak about a 'future of the web' based around public ledgers, anonymity, and immutability, those of us who have been harassed online look on in horror as obvious vectors for harassment and abuse are overlooked, if not outright touted as features.

Go code Doja Cat’s new music video! Created in partnership with Girls Who Code.

In one of the most famous quotes in advertising, John Wanamaker is reputed to have said: Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. Since about 2014, companies like Google and comScore, and organizations like the Internet Advertising Bureau have started to report on ad viewability,…

Sur YouTube, des milliers de femmes se filment en train de faire le ménage, de se maquiller ou de déballer leurs courses, sous les yeux de millions d’abonnés. Que nous racontent ces vidéos sur les femmes d’aujourd’hui ? Comment l’Algorithme finit-il par les conditionner ? Au fil de la série, notre héroïne prend de plus en plus conscience des carcans qui l’enferment.

An interactive music theory cheat sheet with scales, diatonic chords, notes on the piano, notes on the staff and key signature for all major and minor keys.

Track the digital transformation with the ITU DataHub, featuring hundreds of ICT indicators on connectivity, markets, affordability, trust governance, and sustainability. Find, compare, and download data for nearly 200 economies.

Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

BRILLIANT UK car leasing website from Ling. WOW! An experience! On TV; BBC Dragons' Den. Best lease car deals! Ling bites! WAH!

How India’s TikTok ban may have inadvertently caused a random image to become extremely popular.

View all of the English speaking search engines the world has to offer and where they get their organic results from

Ces derniers temps je me questionne de plus en plus sur les sites perso. Je trouve qu'on a une idée super industrielle des sites personnel. Que ce soit un blog ou pas... On a en tête de performer en audience, on veut avoir une ligne éditoriale et une cadence de…

Le modèle de l'économie de l'attention Si le rêve initial d'Internet était celui du partage, force est de constater qu'aujourd'hui les « Géants du Web (...)

A small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other

En Suède, un enfant se brosse les dents. Au Rwanda, un homme fait son lit. Anna Rosling Rönnling veut nous montrer les moments de la vie quotidienne de personnes dans le monde entier. Pour ce faire, elle a envoyé des photographes dans 264 maisons de 50 pays différents (pour l'instant) pour reporter les cuisinières, lits, toilettes, jouets et autres objets de la vie quotidienne en fonctions des revenus de foyers du monde entier. Observez comment des familles vivent en Lettonie, au Burkina Faso ou encore au Pérou pendant qu'Anna Rosling Rönnlund explique le pouvoir des photos pour nous aider à mieux comprendre le monde.

I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for.

Traquer les « cerise sur le gâteau », les « affaire à suivre » et les « grincer des dents » : c’était le thème de mon premier projet de datajournalisme. Dix ans plus tard, j'ai ressorti les pièges à loup du placard, et cherché à comprendre pourquoi les médias utilisaient autant ces expressions toutes faites. (...)

Daydreaming a post-HTML Utopia

Learn more about this critical infrastructure, which you likely use for hours every day.

The internet increasingly pervades our lives, delivering information to us no matter where we are. It takes a complex system of cables, servers, towers, and other infrastructure, developed over decades, to allow us to stay in touch with our friends and family so effortlessly. Here are 40 maps that will help you better understand the internet — where it came from, how it works, and how it's used by people around the world.