People talk about an Internet community, but that’s not a community to my mind. Community doesn’t happen until you smell people.
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There is a clear need for greater involvement of women in the development of the Internet, not only for their own personal development, but also to mold an evolving, and promising medium with gender sensitivity. Partnerships need to be developed among the stakeholders – users and developers alike – to bring about a truly ‘gendered’ […]
The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don’t need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.
Enthusiasm for a medium that keeps you away from human beings strikes me as worrying. That you would rather live in an unreal time and space, with unreal people who don’t even give their names – you can say what you like, you can be whoever you like – means that people aren’t anyone, they […]
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a “fix” of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Some long-ago theorists had expected network linkages to increase information transfer. If it does, it’s buried so deep under layers and layers of misinformation, misinterpretation, slanted views, partial truths, and outright lies that it’s impossible to extract. Rumors, however.
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
It is said that the Internet is the first truly global market place of ideas. I find that a bit depressing realizing that the most traffic in global ideas are spread shots and bjs.
