Video: History of the Internet by PICOL
By leelefever on January 09, 2009 - 12:09pm
The Explainist blog pointed me to this awesome video that tracks the evolution of the web from the very beginning.
View With CommentsCommon Craft is 5!
By leelefever on June 24, 2008 - 9:26am
It's true, Common Craft (the company and blog) is 5 years old today, or sometime around now. I recently went back to the very first blog posts I wrote in 2003.
One of first was called "My Intentions for this Weblog" of June 24, 2003. Here are two quotes:
This weblog will be written in the language of a lay person. I feel strongly that a key to my success is being able to relate technology and technical concepts to people that are not educated or well-versed in technology. I think that the language of technology is very much focused on technologists. My goal is to make communication technology easy to understand for people like my Mom.
And...
View With CommentsOur Story of Getting Started with Online Video
By leelefever on May 05, 2008 - 10:26am
We're often asked how we got started with our videos. Here's the story.
It all started with an online community. It was the latter part of 1999 and I was working in a healthcare data company called HBSI (which was eventually merged into non-existence). The customers were asking for a way to work together across hospitals. So, a few of us started an email group on eGroups, which is now Yahoo Groups. Through this experiment and the online community that grew out of it, I discovered my passion.
View With CommentsAre Spammers Machiavellian?
By leelefever on April 29, 2008 - 11:48am
It started with a tweet. Eddie Codel described Boston's streets as "Kafkaesque." I found it on Wikipedia (it means disorienting), along with a listing of other name-inspired words. One caught my eye: Machiavellianism. The first line of the Wikipedia entry:
Our Videos at One Year: Facts and Figures
By leelefever on April 23, 2008 - 11:21am
Well, as of today it has been exactly one year since all this video craziness began. On April 22, 2007 we published RSS in Plain English. We never guessed these videos would take us so far - it was just a problem that begged to be solved. Did you ever see a blog post with the same name from 2004?
Since our work is in front of people often, we both feel a little self conscious in talking about the numbers behind the videos. We don't want to seem ostentatious or too self-promotional. But, at the same time, I think that exposing some of the figures provides context and hopefully examples of the power of Social Media.
Internet Power - A 1995 Video Explaining the Internet
By leelefever on March 18, 2008 - 12:27pm
