Saw on Daring Fireball that Microsoft is previewing its new global website (link). Naturally, I wondered “Where the heck did the global gateway go?” It used to be in the header. But no more. The global gateway has been demoted …
Awhile back I printed up a batch of typewriter notecards based on a typewriter I had rescued years ago. It turns out a lot people love these notecards, so we now have a set of four unique typewriter cards. You …
ICANN has approved Mongolia’s IDN application. Here’s a one-page list of all approved IDNs — a list that now includes 30 countries/territories. IDNs are laying the groundwork for a revolution that most people are completely unaware is happening. TweetShareShare
From an interesting (and concerning) CircleID post by Milton Mueller: Three Chinese engineers are proposing a way to alter Internet standards to partition the Internet into autonomously administered national networks, using the domain name system (DNS). The idea was not proposed …
Read moreThe problem with the Internet is that it’s too global…
The registration period for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), names like .google and .nyc, has been open for a short while and it appears that ICANN has won the lottery. According to Domain Incite, ICANN has received 1,900 registrations so far, …
If you haven’t visited the Noun Project yet, take a moment and drop by. It’s a great initiative to provide open source icons. All you have to do is provide attribution according to the Creative Commons license. I noticed recently …
It’s no secret that the US has been on a borrowing binge for quite some time. So when the US launched its redesigned $100 bill last year, the Fed went to great lengths to market the “Benjamin” globally. Check out …