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What The Internet Isn't

Posted by timothy on from the to-name-just-six dept.

looseBits writes "Doc Searls and David Weinberger, co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, have put together a 10-part guide for how to stop mistaking the Internet for something it isn't. It contains some painfully obvious and often overlooked characteristics of the 'world of ends' we call the Internet."

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  1. Yes, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can it run Linux?

  2. Well, for starters... by whyde · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    AOL is not the internet.

    Neither is that "IE" icon on your windows desktop.

    The internet is also not just for pornography anymore.

  3. Just to let you know... by 1arkhaine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...You should probably update your sig, because the URL is actually the-lung.co.uk

  4. Re:for sale... by starm_ · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    FYI it is a field

    from Merriam Webster:

    Main Entry: pragmatics
    Pronunciation: prag-'ma-tiks
    Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
    1 : a branch of semiotic that deals with the relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users
    2 : linguistics concerned with the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur