Online Communication
I’ve been thinking about different sorts of internet communities, and how they can feel pretty different based on their primary medium. By “community” I mean a group you specifically choose to be part of, a group where you can recognize other “regulars”…a group that feels like a “place” that feels comfortable. Sometimes this is going to be a closed group of friends; other times it’s friends-of-friends that come and go; still others it’s people oriented around a common interest. But as far as text-based online media go, I think they fit into five main categories: Messaging, Chat Rooms, Livestream Chat, Comment Threads, and Forums.
The Biggest Smallest PNG
A few days ago, my former coworker Evan Hahn posted “The world’s smallest PNG”. I was challenged to see how much data I could fit into that “smallest” PNG without actually increasing the file size. It’s more than you’d think!