And what I'm saying is that journalists can blog too, instead of writing for a publication, if they are worried that they aren't getting heard because they're not a blogger. The only thing is that this may mean that "journalist" may start to disappear as a paid position like it is today.
The disappearance of journalist as career is an interesting thought -- firstly, isn't there a certain level of legitimacy in being a paid reporter? There are certain skills required to be a good reporter, and these skills are not available or even evident to some. Secondly, reporters aren't all commentators; news should be presented free of coloring opinion as much as possible, right? While I don't discount the concept of blogging-as-news, I do believe that more blogging is editorial in nature.
A large enough network of Slashdot-type sites, each with a community and each with a different focus, would have sufficient breadth to pull in a good number of interesting stories, while serving as a filtering mechanism at the same time.
With sufficient tuning, I bet you could filter metadata from the bloggers, emotional content, and sort of, what, large group psycho-dynamics? Neat stuff.
The point is that when anybody can have a blog, there is no "everybody else" to worry about.
The person you replied to wasn't denying that anyone could blog, but rather that there would be the bloggers, and then there would be journalists.
The difference, I think, is that under best circumstances, bloggers are essayists, whereas journalists would continue in their function as news reporters. It's a shame to see the worth of blogs be reduced to how they alter google's search results. Most that I care about have more opinion & discussion than linkorrhea. I wonder if bloggers will ever have a moment as defining as, say, the Federalist Papers?
I send out (upload) over 8 GIGS of data a day. My company pays $89 a month for my service. If they cap it (not let me use network access i pay for) they are handicapping my ability to run a business.
and that GODDAMN would be a GODDAMN problem for me.
Do you really send 8 gigs via NNTP for you company? Through @Home? Despite being a violation of their AUP?
Excite@Home is implementing a byte-cap on the Usenet service that will limit subscribers to 3GB of Usenet content over any three day window. The Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) has been revised to reflect the change in Usenet usage policy.
You goddamn cretins. There may be some kind of 15k limit, but I don't see it. The page you reference has the quote above in it -- if you can restrain yourself to a GODDAMN GIG A DAY maybe you can 'survive'.
You forgot every other damn website on the planet.
If I offer up a slashdot-based XML file that turns every "microsoft" into a link to, say, http://go-linux/microsoft_bad?article=random, or article=latest, then every occurence of microsoft can bring up a new thing against it.
CNN could link words like "president" to an article list, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, you're going to come back and say "well, how could users find this file in the first place? it'd be buried in cryptic windows directories!", and I'd anticipate that the website could create an installer program for it.
Regarding the 'sanctity' of your 'content' : I would not be altering how you present it to visitors at all. I'm using an apparently opt-in (though admittedly that may change) option to help me alter content. The next visitor to your site won't see my changes; your content remains intact. In fact, given some expansion, they could increase how your visitors interact with your content.
The responses to this story are a little disappointing. Or funny, but disappointing mostly.:(
What if you couldn't feed your family? or pay taxes to avoid jail? Here's the gig, pete, when we say "subsistence farming" it's not a job, it's a way to "subsist". Maybe if you were faced with death by starvation you would say "Damn. What a gyp. Now I have to sell my kidney".
And people are getting desperate enough to farm out organs when their land's no longer profitable.
here's what we in the big fancy internet world call "search engine results" :
wow! it's like a miracle.
My opponent, Al Gore, eats babies, and if he is elected to office, will use his corrupt influence to eat even more babies than he has before. A vote for Gore is a vote for a baby eating demon, and you should vote Republimican. Thank you.
When I was in that line of work, all the PCs I built for my clients had 48 hrs of burn in testing, running various system test software. More than once, I found problems that wouldn't have shown up as anything recognizable (more like "darn PC keeps rebooting" type problems) from that testing.
eh, have the os detect the native fs and bully as much free space as possible out of it for use as cache/ mini fs. Quit the game, the cache goes away.
or get a true 52x cdrom, with an metric buttload of its own cache.
once again, there's a gap in the tech curve.
We're still obsessing about trivial crap (your laptop looks like a toy, wah wah wah), and the Japanese are trying to figure out how to plug a video phone directly into my optic nerve, as illustrated below --
J Tech : I've completed testing on the new brain transmission device!!
J Manager : Fantastic, now to create prototypes for design!
J Tech : I would like the prototype to look like a small, red puppy, which, when not on, will appear to be sleeping. When activated, it will transform into a cat, holding a cherry blossom and a pail of milk, while singing brain transmission theme song in kitty kat voice. Shutting down will make the cat say "No more brain transmission makes kitty sad, nya nya!" and will transform back to dog.
J Manager : But it reads brain waves and transmits?
J Tech : Yes, of course.
J Manager : Fine.
USians would get upset over any ergonomic feature at all, preferring a 4x8x12 block of beige (or to be hip, silver or black) plastic with no redeeming ergonomic features so that people know 'it's a serious device!'
those are all isps that care more about $ than their reputation, and will let anyone go amok in their sandboxes. you've probably disagreed with someone in some forum, and you're going to be punished for it.
Either that, or someone's abusing robots.txt by culling its info, and noting it for interesting things for manual perusal at a later date.
shields up, red alert.
Back in MY day, there was ONLY ONE educational program for Unix, and that was MAN! and back in them days, we didn't have no man pages written by fancy schmancy programmers, we just had a buncha rumors and advice like "watch out for that -r option, she's a tricky 'un! She'll say she loves ya, but then, BAM! Yer out in the street with nothing but bitterness and broken inodes."
pfah!
Slashdot Mirror
look forward to saying things like "Our skill tree doesn't let us view Excel files yet! Build more blacksmiths!" or "Oh, no! PDF Rush!!"
sweet first post.
The disappearance of journalist as career is an interesting thought -- firstly, isn't there a certain level of legitimacy in being a paid reporter? There are certain skills required to be a good reporter, and these skills are not available or even evident to some. Secondly, reporters aren't all commentators; news should be presented free of coloring opinion as much as possible, right? While I don't discount the concept of blogging-as-news, I do believe that more blogging is editorial in nature.
With sufficient tuning, I bet you could filter metadata from the bloggers, emotional content, and sort of, what, large group psycho-dynamics? Neat stuff.
The person you replied to wasn't denying that anyone could blog, but rather that there would be the bloggers, and then there would be journalists.
The difference, I think, is that under best circumstances, bloggers are essayists, whereas journalists would continue in their function as news reporters.
It's a shame to see the worth of blogs be reduced to how they alter google's search results. Most that I care about have more opinion & discussion than linkorrhea. I wonder if bloggers will ever have a moment as defining as, say, the Federalist Papers?
How do you do the downloading without using bandwidth?
Come up with some appropriate name like Redneckhickistan for yourselves.
So your email address is lramsey@student.umass.edu , is that right?
lramsey@student.umass.edu
lramsey@student.umass.edu
lramsey@student.umass.edu
it just rolls off the tongue.
This is inaccurate. There's many bad things to say about VB, but the inability to resize forms was not one of them.
Sure. But you're missing the point if you think it's about using regexes to process a whole HTML file.
The idea isn't to parse an entire HTML document, but to look for markers which signal the beginning and end of certain blocks of relevant content.
What's the url to your thesis?
Do you really send 8 gigs via NNTP for you company? Through @Home? Despite being a violation of their AUP?
Is that you, Bernie?
You goddamn cretins. There may be some kind of 15k limit, but I don't see it. The page you reference has the quote above in it -- if you can restrain yourself to a GODDAMN GIG A DAY maybe you can 'survive'.
I wanted to dismiss that as an issue with the screen grabber + quake. Maybe the author will clarify this.
I quote Dilbert
amazed might not be the best word, eh?
won't you be embarassed when it turns out to be a bunch of disgruntled pilots.
I can't wait to rely on slashdot for all of my e-zine subscription needs!
If I offer up a slashdot-based XML file that turns every "microsoft" into a link to, say, http://go-linux/microsoft_bad?article=random, or article=latest, then every occurence of microsoft can bring up a new thing against it.
CNN could link words like "president" to an article list, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, you're going to come back and say "well, how could users find this file in the first place? it'd be buried in cryptic windows directories!", and I'd anticipate that the website could create an installer program for it.
Regarding the 'sanctity' of your 'content' : I would not be altering how you present it to visitors at all. I'm using an apparently opt-in (though admittedly that may change) option to help me alter content. The next visitor to your site won't see my changes; your content remains intact. In fact, given some expansion, they could increase how your visitors interact with your content.
The responses to this story are a little disappointing. Or funny, but disappointing mostly.
What if you couldn't feed your family? or pay taxes to avoid jail? Here's the gig, pete, when we say "subsistence farming" it's not a job, it's a way to "subsist". Maybe if you were faced with death by starvation you would say "Damn. What a gyp. Now I have to sell my kidney".
And people are getting desperate enough to farm out organs when their land's no longer profitable.
here's what we in the big fancy internet world call "search engine results" :
wow! it's like a miracle.
you are my hero
My opponent, Al Gore, eats babies, and if he is elected to office, will use his corrupt influence to eat even more babies than he has before. A vote for Gore is a vote for a baby eating demon, and you should vote Republimican. Thank you.
When I was in that line of work, all the PCs I built for my clients had 48 hrs of burn in testing, running various system test software. More than once, I found problems that wouldn't have shown up as anything recognizable (more like "darn PC keeps rebooting" type problems) from that testing.
eh, have the os detect the native fs and bully as much free space as possible out of it for use as cache/ mini fs. Quit the game, the cache goes away.
or get a true 52x cdrom, with an metric buttload of its own cache.
once again, there's a gap in the tech curve.
We're still obsessing about trivial crap (your laptop looks like a toy, wah wah wah), and the Japanese are trying to figure out how to plug a video phone directly into my optic nerve, as illustrated below --
J Tech : I've completed testing on the new brain transmission device!!
J Manager : Fantastic, now to create prototypes for design!
J Tech : I would like the prototype to look like a small, red puppy, which, when not on, will appear to be sleeping. When activated, it will transform into a cat, holding a cherry blossom and a pail of milk, while singing brain transmission theme song in kitty kat voice. Shutting down will make the cat say "No more brain transmission makes kitty sad, nya nya!" and will transform back to dog.
J Manager : But it reads brain waves and transmits?
J Tech : Yes, of course.
J Manager : Fine.
USians would get upset over any ergonomic feature at all, preferring a 4x8x12 block of beige (or to be hip, silver or black) plastic with no redeeming ergonomic features so that people know 'it's a serious device!'
These were the foil coated, holographic ones.
Double rares, 1 in 100000 packs
those are all isps that care more about $ than their reputation, and will let anyone go amok in their sandboxes. you've probably disagreed with someone in some forum, and you're going to be punished for it.
Either that, or someone's abusing robots.txt by culling its info, and noting it for interesting things for manual perusal at a later date.
shields up, red alert.
Back in MY day, there was ONLY ONE educational program for Unix, and that was MAN! and back in them days, we didn't have no man pages written by fancy schmancy programmers, we just had a buncha rumors and advice like "watch out for that -r option, she's a tricky 'un! She'll say she loves ya, but then, BAM! Yer out in the street with nothing but bitterness and broken inodes."
pfah!
illiad, is that you?