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Posts tagged “life online”
“ If you tell people they can upload their content, you should have a clear and distinct way for them to retrieve their content. People do it ad-hoc as they can, but the abilities of most people, the people without an engineering degree or years of experience, to get back what they put up is minimal. It’s not that important. We should make it important.
How many more times will we allow this?
How long before someone takes a fucking stand? ”
ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse (via adactio)
This absolutely horrifies me, especially when I think about how much I believe in and advocate for people to document online. Read the comments in particular that Jason quotes.
HOW can we take a stand?
Teenagers 'spend an average of 31 hours online' - Telegraph
my second hellyeah of the day via aja:
They spend some three and a half hours communicating with friends on MSN, and around two hours on YouTube and in chat rooms.
Just over an hour is devoted to looking up cosmetic surgery procedures such as how to enlarge breasts and get collagen implants, an hour and a half is spent on family planning and pregnancy websites and one hour 35 minutes is spent investigating diets and weight loss.
One in four teenagers of the 1,000 polled said they regularly spoke to strangers online but thought it harmless.
If you wonder whether or not your teens talk to unknown people online, the answer is yes. Without a doubt.
If you wonder whether or not it is dangerous, consider this: have you taught your teenager to be a freethinking individual who has a good grasp of what qualifies as a safe situation and what does not?
I don’t think the answer to these type of problems is trying to add another lock and key to the American upbringing: after all, the internet did not mark the beginning of kidnapping or sexual abuse. I think what we really need to examine is how our culture creates teenagers who are barely able to chew their own food without the help of their parents, much less make the adult decisions that they are inevitably going to be faced with.
As for the amount of time spent online, I have to say that I think the internet has the ability to be an amazing portal of information and socialization, a place to expand horizons and create their own unique identities. Out of of the places I spent my time as a teenager, I can say with certainty that I got in far more trouble within the walls of my highschool than I ever did online.
This is awesome - more objects should have login capability especially if I can access them from the internet! When will I be able to log into my PO box and see what is waiting there for me, or log into my Mysky/TV at home & set it to record things (or manage what’s on the hard drive when it’s getting full)?
“ blog your rage, vent your spleen in the only way we know how ”
re: the hideous prices for the iPhone which have been released here.
wanted: an epiphany
i am so bored of this website.
i’m bored of considering lifestreams and blogs and linklogs and the bits and pieces and posting an occasional photo and not having things all in one place but needing to continue the community aspects of those sites which do it better than i could reproduce.
what to do? what should this become?
i have always believed that if there is content you want and it’s not out there you should create it. i consider this the first tenet of self-publishing.
however, the second tenet of self-publishing is have pride in what you have created, and i don’t at the moment. i need some way to pull this all together, invigorate it, make it fucken awesome and something that i push in everyone’s faces because it’s a must read or a must do or a must LINK.
then i’d probably start to care about page views and referrers and all that kind of shit again (though i do love to look at the RANDOM ways people find this stuff).
i’m just taking up digital space here because that’s what i’m used to, and have done as almost a matter of habit for over 10 years now.
I NEED AN EPIPHANY.
“ My hope is that this new degree of public intimacy can widen the bounds of how we think of each other. Maybe if we saw each other as more fully realized human beings, business would be more human. ”
brought to you by the letter "v"
recently the helpful phone book delivery people dropped the 30cm high stack of auckland directories on our doorstep. they’re still sitting in our hallway encased in yellow plastic. we don’t use them at all - not even for laptop stands.
if i need a phone number generally i head for my nearest browser and go directly for a website - whitepages.co.nz isn’t even that much use if you’re guessing at the correct name of the entity you are looking for.
if i want to buy things i often like to look at the range of things available before i actually have to go somewhere. this is simply lazy efficient!
however, two destination stores i often visit don’t have a website (shock) or have one of the worst 1997-esque sites ever. as below:
videon - for an amazing destination video store like videon, with awesome titles, staff and ethos to not have an online catalogue much less a WEBSITE is hideous! i had to use the whitepages, and then i had to call them to see if what I wanted was in!
the vault - this is almost as bad though at least they have a web “presence”. It’s not quite whatiI would call a site *cough* http://www.vault-designstore.co.nz/ *cough*. it has a broken image on the front page and it only gets worse from there.
come on… just TRY. please. if not for the shoppers, for the children. anyone.
PS: does anyone want our phone books?
the web, community, privacy and optimism
a fantastic article from ideasonideas. eric karjaluoto discusses his thoughts on web, community, privacy and optimism. i’m a believer :D
