Inspired by a handful of sites that have popped up in the last few weeks to mock a design change made in the official Twitter app for iPhone, my buddies Robb and Johnny and I have put together a project called the Dickens Bar. The idea is simple — enter the URL of any website, and see it immediately enhanced by the “trending topics” of one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian Era. See, for example, this very site with Dickens Bar addition.
about me
Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Special Projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Previously, he was the Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. more »
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Recent Posts
- Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot 26 August, 2018
- Twitter should allow users to “hide” old tweets: my correct opinion 5 August, 2018
- Subtitles for Norway’s SlowTV train ride to Oslo 4 April, 2018
- Archiving threatened outlets for the Freedom of the Press Foundation 12 March, 2018
- “The Florida Project” and questions of control 13 October, 2017
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