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Roger Ebert: Hunt not the Snark but the Snarker

Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, April 12, 2009 @ 10:01 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This post from Roger Ebert about snark both in print and on the Internet is worth a read for all of us, especially those of us that pride ourselves on our wit. You and I may not agree with all of his examples, but it has several core points that are worth considering. It’s not that I (or Ebert for that matter) think that snark should be done away with, it has more to do with confronting the dark intention of snark and understanding that before we engage in it. That dark intention is identified by Ebert as:

[Snark] functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, non-conformity and simple error.

Read it, and let me know what you think. (Comments will hopefully return sometime soon.)

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Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police - CNN.com

Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, February 20, 2009 @ 16:44 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is ridiculous. Essentially, if this passes as it stands it means if you have a router in your home or business, even if it is password protected, you need to keep logs of network activity for two years. From the article:

The legal definition of electronic communication service is “any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications.” The U.S. Justice Department’s position is that any service “that provides others with means of communicating electronically” qualifies.

That sweeps in not just public Wi-Fi access points, but password-protected ones too, and applies to individuals, small businesses, large corporations, libraries, schools, universities, and even government agencies. Voice over IP services may be covered too.

Seriously, I can be held culpable if my router doesn’t maintain two years of log data? I mean, I’m all for stopping child pornography, but it’s boneheaded provisions like this, proposed by people who don’t understand the technology they are regulating, that causes me to have absolutely no faith that our government can effectively deal with the issues of the modern age.

I’m not even going to get started on the potential privacy issues that this raises, as I’m sure the rest of the Interwebs are busy enough doing that for me.

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There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS) (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 @ 10:06 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

I tend to agree with Jeremy Zawodny on this one. He makes a strong case against the hype for a WebOS, and the problem where people confuse mimicking the desktop, for being a WebOS. More importantly, he gets into how we shouldn’t want a full-stack WebOS. Interesting stuff.

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xkcd - Map of Online Communities

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 @ 09:17 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is great.

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, March 2, 2007 @ 07:50 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is just an awesome video on how the web is changing our world. Nothing new in here, but just an awesome presentation.

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the show with zefrank: waves

Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 15, 2007 @ 08:01 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Another great Ze Frank piece, a sort of homage to web surfers.

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The Reporter Is Real, but the World He Covers Isn’t - New York Times

Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, October 16, 2006 @ 08:52 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

“Adam Pasick, a Reuters technology reporter, is heading up the news agency’s first virtual news bureau inside the online role-playing game Second Life.” Second Life is a phenomenon that continues to amaze me.

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