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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."

10 of 485 comments (clear)

  1. meow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or woof?

    meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow

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

    can it run Linux?

  3. 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.

  4. In A Related Thread, What Boring Is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    What? You want more of this nonsense?

  5. In that case... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope he goes for a real-world case study -- the end to end transfer of a given porn movie. Definetely something your manager can read and relate to, plus it gives you an easy springboard onto such topics as average throughput, burst transmissions, etc :)

  6. Republicans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not for Republicans either, because it was invented by Al Gore, a Democrat.

    So there!

  7. Look at the new Slashdot front page! No sidebars!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My sidebars have disappeared and been replaced with a gigantic text ad bar! Go check it out.

    This is not a troll, but since there's no damn place for people to post about Meta issues like this, we're forced to post AC on the top thread..

  8. 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

  9. OT sig comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of my professors at SUNY@Buffalo (commonly known as UB) asserted that e was about 3.16. He was such an idiot, he could only get 1/3 of the class to show up even WITH an attendance policy.

  10. 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