*Awkward Silence*… So… how about that internet?
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12
Dec
…better to be addicted to smartphones and gismos than cocaine or sex, I suppose. Well, I don’t know, the result is the same after all, very little sleep, great expense and horrific mess everywhere.
Thanks to buy her candy for hightlighting this gem of an article. I haven’t read anything in my RSS reader for few weeks as I’ve just been “marking all as read” even though it always slightly saddens the soul thinking you might be missing gold like this.
11
Dec
I know it sounds like she’s a stripper but I’ve stumbled across my soulmate and right when I didn’t expect it. Yep, the true love of my life - I’ve found an open wireless network.
I’ve been here five months without access, just surviving, but deep down I felt unfulfilled like something was missing. But now we’re together, I know what love is.
Sure, Alexis is more than a little hot and cold. Sometimes she can be a cruel and heartless bitch by not letting me talk to my internet friends when I want to. Though, it’s when she does allow me stolen internets that I know how she really feels. Let’s just say I don’t think there’ll be any break up blog post any time soon.
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Nov
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Aug
That person on the other side of the internet is a human. Treat them like one and they’re likely to return the favor.
Reason #414 why it’s a good idea not to be a jerk on the internet
Blindingly obvious advice yet completely truthsome.
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Jun
06
Jun
In truth, the Internet is a great communications tool. But with all the glitz and appeal of new technology and new modes of transferring information, we can easily forget that good communication requires craft rather than volume or repetition. Good investigation requires time and subjectivity, both of which the Internet can steal.
I think this is part of the major harm of the Internet. It’s not web-addiction or cyber-bullying or MySpace stalkers or any of the other old, sensationalized problems-that-hurt-your-children translated into a new age. Rather, the harm is the difficulty we have sorting out what is productive and what is distraction. Whether it is a ball and a stick or a mouse and a keyboard, we’ve always had ways to waste our time. The Internet blurs the line between productive work and outright procrastination. This problem is solvable. Hopefully, in the next few years, we will sort out when it is time to disconnect from the web and experience the wide world.
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May
YouTube has destroyed my ability to know whether I am bored or entertained.
20
Apr
The internet has nuked the last remaining consecutive seconds of concentration my attention span had left.
12
Apr
Google’s picture-snapping cars have been cruising Australia’s suburbs since late last year, with pictures of thousands of homes expected to be uploaded to the internet with Street View’s launch [expected within months].
While Google has defended the project, the internet company baulked when The Weekend Australian requested the personal details and addresses of the group’s key figures to allow the paper’s photographers to take pictures of their homes. ‘Providing those details would be completely inappropriate,’ said Google spokesman Rob Shilkin.
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I’ve been seeing these cars in Brisbane and Toowoomba since late last year. Every freaking time I see one, I either can’t catch up to it to take a photo or don’t have a camera with me. I spoke about it on the ABC Queensland Evenings show the first day they arrived in Queensland which was when I first saw one. From the listener feedback I can say people are really freaked out by it. Google’s Australian spokesman Rob Shilkin spoke on the ABC 612 Mornings show on Thursday after I was initially booked to explain what it is and he got nailed in the interview. He really floundered and you could tell they just don’t get why people are freaked out. Even though he says they’ll have uber privacy controls for Australian Street View images there was indignation in his voice that Google should be called into question on this technology.
29
Feb
Dial-up! It’s like being blind.
16
Feb
Barack Obama at Google talking innovation in November 2007. Is over an hour long but well worth a look because he takes questions from CEO Eric Schmidt and the floor for 40 minutes so is good for skeptics who think he can only give tremendous speeches. Found via tumbl(dot).
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Jan
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Jan
If you want to see the new world, you have to live it.
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