Tag: cyberspace
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A Sacco Offense: Gawking, Trolling and seeing Red(dit)
Great video about shaming and Justine Sacco from Jon Ronson. I was online that night and felt the same as he did, the unease at the online mob, and actually I did post about it, defending her as not being malicious – note I didn’t mention her initially by name. I didn’t need to, every…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Priceless – spammer posts dataset
In what has to be a classic act, a spammer on one of my sites has accidentally posted most if not all of the dataset in creating their spams. In one sense it makes a strange kind of poetry, a choose-your-own fiction for the 21st century. You can see the logic in how they slightly…
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Cyberia & Information Superhighway 1995
I think we forget how much the Internets were a new novel thing in the past – namely 1994-1995. I recorded this on one of my old VHS tapes – a report from After 5 (no idea which channel, London based probably a ITV franchise) which covers this new ‘Information Superhighway’ (more of a Data…
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Denial of Service
No not talking about Twitter (although I have to say, a site that depends on Javascript for deleting or posting but doesn’t disable it in the posts is incredibly negligent and stupid. I mean, security 101 here?!? And make your site not need Javascript too!) but that following the news that the film industry has…
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