Links published on August 2, 2006
Pew Internet - Bloggers
Some people speculate and pontificate about the state of this or that bit of the Internet. Pew, on the other hand, go and find out what’s actually happening, and release well-written reports on their findings.
“DOPA” and What Is A “Social Networking Website”
A “Commercial Social Networking Website” will be whatever the censorware company puts on the blacklist for “commercial social networking websites”. End of story.
Seth’s right, but it still really frightens me that the Journal-World and several of its other news properties already are, or soon will be, “social networking websites” according to the DOPA definition.
JavaScript Threading: Quick Tip
You can’t really get a “new thread” in JS, but Mark shows you a simple way to pretend that you can.
The sorts of timing issues that this works around come up more often than you’d think; the AJAX example I’m writing up attacked the problem by building function literals on the fly based on things that were happening in a callback, and then subscribing them to the completion of an animation event :)
The Chainsaw Infanticide Logger Maneuver
Read this and be warned, ye that consider mucking about with existing classes.