Tag: Boing Boing

Replied to French city makes its buses free, spurring new ridership and decreasing car use (Boing Boing)

A year ago, the city of Dunkirk in France made its bus system entirely free — causing a boom in ridership, as well as a drop in car usage.

It is interesting that there has been an increase in rides that may not have occurred previously Clive. This reminds me of an episode of RN Future Tense exploring whether free transport can save our cities? Also, Jonathan English wrote an interesting piece explaining what this is not necessarily the solution for the US.
Replied to The Boing Boing blog turns 19 today (Boing Boing,Boing Boing)

The Boing Boing blog turns 19 today,Nineteen years ago today, Mark decided to do some research on the new Blogger service for an article in The Industry Standard, and so he created a blog and started posting to it (the Standard spike…

I am intrigued how you would describe the maturity of Boing Boing? How do you think it has changed and developed in the last 18 years, other than new additions?
Bookmarked RIP, Google+: long ailing and finished off by a security bug (Boing Boing)

By the time Google+ rolled out, there was already nascent discontent with Facebook. Google+ offered all the downsides of Facebook, but with fewer of the people you wanted to connect with.

Cory Doctorow reports on Google+’s demise, with the discovery of a bug associated with the API being its final flaw. He highlights the implementation of ‘real names’ and the push to integrate it within every product as two failures. I like how Dave Winer put it:

Products, to be any good, must be motivated, have a creative purpose.

Some would say that it was crushed from the beginning.

Last year, I spent a month wholely in Google Plus. My reflections can be found here.