It’s happening to more and more of the blogs I read: the personality, quirkiness and unique voice that once made them so appealing to me are fading. In their place, an SEO-driven uniformity that puts keyword placement ahead of pretty much everything. That approach has been afflicting newspapers for some time , as clever headlines give way to the kind of blandness that only a machine could love (which is …

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Cartoon: ReadWriteWebosaurus

I'm packing up my Wacom Cintiq, some Pigma Micron markers, a whack of paper and my camera... and I'm off to the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on Thursday in Mountain View....






Cartoon: The Worm Has Turned

Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last. As long as people are willing to trust their...






Cartoon: Annotating the World

This past week's buzz phrase (so much so that it was a trending topic on Twitter) was " augmented reality " (or AR), which is what you get when you mix your perception of...