According to Mashable, the FCC has lost the ability to enforce net neutrality principles upon Internet Service Providers.
So basically at the time being the courts are ruling against things that could put net neutrality enforcement into play.
A guy in the comments pointed out this article regarding what’s next for net neutrality. There are three really good points regarding why the ISPs shouldn’t exactly be celebrating anything yet. There are ways that the FCC could possibly gain the ability to enforce net neutrality upon ISPs, some involving overturning or revisiting past decisions.
Are you confused about what net neutrality even really is about? Here’s a good summary.
Only time will tell how this will actually pan out.
I’m glad that baseball season is finally back in gear. Twins games will now be on TV/radio almost every night, yeah! These West Coast games are a little crazy though, I gotta stay up late to catch the whole game.
Web Form Tips
Have you ever used a web form that just left all kinds of things to be desired? I have, and it wasn’t a fun experience for me, or probably any other people that were using it. A bad form can ruin a web site experience quickly.
Bad forms are easy to avoid though, they just need to be easy to use and easy to understand.
Check out these 8 rules for effective web forms to get an idea of what I’m talking about. If you have experience designing usable web forms, a lot of these points might be nothing new. Do you already think that the idea of a reset button is just not a good idea?
If you are looking for ways to improve your form building approach, give it a quick read.
Don’t Tweet Drunk
Not a good idea, I probably don’t need to even get into the details.
In case you’re not sure why drunk tweeting might not be a good idea, check out these 5 reasons to not do it. The picture at the top of the post is pretty awesome too, I must admit. I feel sorry for that guy.
Inspiring Web Design
Web design inspiration is always a good thing, right? I love to check out different web sites to see what people are trying to do on the web. There is an overabundance of awesome design on the Internet, hidden among all the weird (bad) design that is out there as well.
My latest inspiration came from viewing this massive list of top women web designers. Very nice design work abounds.
Wow, it’s actually nice outside today. No more snow. The sun is out. Very little wind. I was driving around with windows down. And yet due to being an Internet fiend I’m sitting here typing on my keyboard.
Ah yes, the life of an Internet user. I’m gonna type this fast so I can get back to standing on my not-so-awesome apartment balcony.
New Gmail security feature
Gmail recently added a new feature that allows it’s users to detect suspicious account activity. This I like.
Half the battle in regards to keeping online accounts secure is knowing who is accessing them, and this feature allows you to keep tabs on whether or not your account is being accessed where it’s supposed to be accessed.
Got somebody logging into your account from another country? A country that you’ve never visited in your life, much less accessed the Internet from? Gmail will tell you if it happens.
Are you taking yourself too seriously?
I think this is a question that every person should probably ask themselves, at least as far as the Internet is concerned, which is why I laughed when I read this.
However, I think that some of the points being made in that post are not actually so bad. Posing for a social media profile picture? Aren’t most people posing for pictures anyways, regardless of where it ends up?
I don’t think that it’s a bad thing for people to take themselves too seriously on the Internet, however. Many different approaches have worked for many different people with both good and bad results, for many things. I can’t just cut a solid line down the middle of that argument myself.
Retro web designs
Check out this list of retro and vintage web designs. There’s 50 sweet examples. This is appropriately titled as “inspiring”.
Retro web design isn’t cliche yet is it? I hope not, I still like it.
There’s just something cool about designs that play off styles of the past, they can have a haunting look and feel.
Closing note -
If I spent the last 5 minutes tweaking the heading sizes on this post, as opposed to spending only 10 minutes writing this, am I taking myself too seriously on the Internet?
What?
Yeah that’s a weird combo of items, but it’s what I’ve seen today.
On to the first item:
Twitter Obituaries
So I ran across this cool page today where people are posting in 140 words or less what the obituary would say if Twitter were to die.
Very, very creative posts.
What if Twitter did disappear? It hasn’t been around too long, but it’s taken the world by storm. I think there would be a fair amount of worldwide Twitter withdrawal if it did go the way of the dinosaurs.
Online Backups
This might not be what you think.
Everybody knows it’s a good idea to backup your stuff right? But what about all the stuff you have out there in the “cloud”?
There are many options to back that stuff up, so if you’re favorite cloud service goes the way of the dinosaurs, you have your stuff that was stored on that cloud service.
Check out Backupify.
Cas passed this one on to me today via email. I’m probably going to sign up because it looks like this type of service will save my ass someday, since I rely heavily on the cloud. Hopefully the cloud never clears, but if it does, we can be prepared.
