Danah Boyd points out the real flaw in this bill: it only hurts the poor kids. Rich kids can get online through a cell, home, etc etc etc, where as econimically disadvantaged kids surf only at the library and are shut out yet again from their "cultural artifacts".
Verizon & T-Mobile have come out swinging stating that they do not cooperate with the NSA program. Just don't call a landline. Of course, maybe the NSA just scoops that data out of the air.
"What does bother me is you sometimes have multiple categories for the same thing.
For example there is a Car Audio section under Consumer Electronics and a Car Audio section under eBay Motor. People to the search in two places to find what they are looking for."
This where I think tagging becomes so useful... a listing can be in both places and the person looking will likely find it, but not in such a nasty way.
If there weren't so much noise on ebay it would be easy to demote or punish users for spamming. It can't be done currently because of the sheer volume of noise... you'd never see the link to block a user or to inflict damage on their reputation... which is a key part of dealing on ebay.
It sounds weird until you consider how easy it is to add an entry for a seller. Think about how hard it is for a seller to get information onto ebay. Repeating that ardous process isn't an option. Here comes the genius of the boomarklet. Click... tag tag. Done.
I setup a tagging system for ebay last night using the scuttle bookmarking application: fyndr.com. ebay's UI is just too brutal to deal with and top down from sellers to buyers. Also, and I couldn't believe this, but ebay charges for categorizing products in more than a few, limited, categories... making products harder to find! coo coo!
Between the cleaner UI of a bookmarking system, the tagging, and purposefully active userbase I'm hoping fyndr can put a, yeah yeah, web2.0 face on the old web1.0 beast.
If you get a good night's sleep... all this distraction, multi-tasking, can't concentrate non-sense begins taking care of itself. Sleep-o-nauts wanted!
I'm trying to chronicle good sleep hacks at sleephacks.com
Research on practical sleep methods based on evidence of non-acute patients are slim to none.
If you're interested in trying to hack a good night's sleep please stop by & help me experiment and gather real data.
I run a news crap-filter called 180n.com which allows the reader to determine which of the stories are actually worth reading & 9/10 the sources are foreign news outlets like the BBC, India Times, even Aljezerra. US News Media don't do "news" anymore. They're media outlets the same as Oprah & Survivor. Reel you in with sensational bullshit and try to hold you there as long as possible by promising something worthwhile... just after this break or right after you view these ads for classmates.com!
I refuse to update anything on my gaming (win) machine unless something I want to do absolutely requires it. Often the patches (SP2 ??) do more damage. On top of that you often end up in a time consuming wasteland of endless updates of other files that fix that what damage that patch has done.
Of course I can only do this because I refuse to use email or IE on this machine.
These services, while having a lot of variety, lack any real spice for finding good quality, inspired music/bands/artists. Try ituneslove.com... an A/V club for online music.
There are a lot of barriers to using RSS for 'normal' people since so few even know how to use email. Primarily you have to see the outcome first, which is the efficiency of a feedreader, then work backward learning how to gather, populate, etc etc.
180n is an example of something I call WebRSS using big M news media sources. Basically it's skipping the learning and going straight to the presentation. Removing and adding sources is still on the agenda, but you can see what I'm getting at.
Access to information is the problem. We know that the information we want is out there, but often 'premium' content providers bury it amongst junk, ads, click-through mazes, etc. And that's just to find out if it is garbage or not.
In a true overload system they key is to make information easy to scan and discard when junk. Witness WebRSS... a presentation style in the form of an rss reader. You have instant access to everything (in topic), it's quickly scannable & discardable, and you're left with the good stuff.
Most people don't use a feed reader or know what rss is so this kinda skips over trying to educate people about how to use it... just give it to them in that form.
Ok, the news2.0 thing sucks, but 180n.com is like Google News X 10. You can read all the incoming stories, and/or vote them up like digg, and/or just read the top voted stories.
"Big M" media is biased towards sensational bullshit and often leaves stories people are actually interested in or concerned about in the dust.
The site could use a comic or two, but this the next wave of news site.
After reading throught most of the comments (> 3) I can only reply that most of your negative comments about the piece are addressed in Parts II - IV which will be published weekly.
I love playing EQ until I got to the levels where I had to group. I always found that to be a PITA.
Must you group to proceed past the newbie levels in WoW?
We can get a screenshot review out a lot faster than a formal review and for the most part people get the gest of the distro from a crowd of users not one Joe-Shmoe.
These screenshots are cool on their own, but are also complimentary to the news, articles, ratings, and especially the new reviews were doing at OSDir.
This way we can get useful information out about the releases and follow up with reviews (wanna write one?) once folks have a chance to put them to the test, which if thorough, takes some time.
Slashdot Mirror
Since when does 'proficiency and sophistication' lead one to believe a Government is behind something? -shudder-
Redhat: Unfakeable Linux - Oracle a Fork!
Danah Boyd points out the real flaw in this bill: it only hurts the poor kids. Rich kids can get online through a cell, home, etc etc etc, where as econimically disadvantaged kids surf only at the library and are shut out yet again from their "cultural artifacts".
Verizon & T-Mobile have come out swinging stating that they do not cooperate with the NSA program. Just don't call a landline. Of course, maybe the NSA just scoops that data out of the air.
"What does bother me is you sometimes have multiple categories for the same thing. For example there is a Car Audio section under Consumer Electronics and a Car Audio section under eBay Motor. People to the search in two places to find what they are looking for." This where I think tagging becomes so useful... a listing can be in both places and the person looking will likely find it, but not in such a nasty way.
If there weren't so much noise on ebay it would be easy to demote or punish users for spamming. It can't be done currently because of the sheer volume of noise... you'd never see the link to block a user or to inflict damage on their reputation... which is a key part of dealing on ebay.
It sounds weird until you consider how easy it is to add an entry for a seller. Think about how hard it is for a seller to get information onto ebay. Repeating that ardous process isn't an option. Here comes the genius of the boomarklet. Click... tag tag. Done.
Between the cleaner UI of a bookmarking system, the tagging, and purposefully active userbase I'm hoping fyndr can put a, yeah yeah, web2.0 face on the old web1.0 beast.
If you get a good night's sleep... all this distraction, multi-tasking, can't concentrate non-sense begins taking care of itself. Sleep-o-nauts wanted!
I'm trying to chronicle good sleep hacks at sleephacks.com Research on practical sleep methods based on evidence of non-acute patients are slim to none. If you're interested in trying to hack a good night's sleep please stop by & help me experiment and gather real data.
I run a news crap-filter called 180n.com which allows the reader to determine which of the stories are actually worth reading & 9/10 the sources are foreign news outlets like the BBC, India Times, even Aljezerra. US News Media don't do "news" anymore. They're media outlets the same as Oprah & Survivor. Reel you in with sensational bullshit and try to hold you there as long as possible by promising something worthwhile... just after this break or right after you view these ads for classmates.com!
Of course I can only do this because I refuse to use email or IE on this machine.
These services, while having a lot of variety, lack any real spice for finding good quality, inspired music/bands/artists. Try ituneslove.com... an A/V club for online music.
180n is an example of something I call WebRSS using big M news media sources. Basically it's skipping the learning and going straight to the presentation. Removing and adding sources is still on the agenda, but you can see what I'm getting at.
In a true overload system they key is to make information easy to scan and discard when junk. Witness WebRSS... a presentation style in the form of an rss reader. You have instant access to everything (in topic), it's quickly scannable & discardable, and you're left with the good stuff.
Most people don't use a feed reader or know what rss is so this kinda skips over trying to educate people about how to use it... just give it to them in that form.
"Big M" media is biased towards sensational bullshit and often leaves stories people are actually interested in or concerned about in the dust.
The site could use a comic or two, but this the next wave of news site.
OSDir started a blog network like this today, but for tech.
As the editor of OSDir I can assure you that I made a static version of the article to handle the slashdot effect.
Most of what write about is addressed in yet unpublished parts II - IV.
This is largely addressed in Part II - published next week.
After reading throught most of the comments (> 3) I can only reply that most of your negative comments about the piece are addressed in Parts II - IV which will be published weekly.
I love playing EQ until I got to the levels where I had to group. I always found that to be a PITA. Must you group to proceed past the newbie levels in WoW?
We can get a screenshot review out a lot faster than a formal review and for the most part people get the gest of the distro from a crowd of users not one Joe-Shmoe.
This way we can get useful information out about the releases and follow up with reviews (wanna write one?) once folks have a chance to put them to the test, which if thorough, takes some time.
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