Archive for the ‘ internet ’ Category
What you think of as offensive is hilariously tame by the standards of the Internet. Your standards of decency are positively Victorian to the new generation of people who have grown up with and on the Internet. What am I talking about? If you’re like most average folks, you’ll say ‘fuck’ and ’shit’ from time to time. [ READ MORE ]
this is my brief thought on wikipedia. as someone who reads an almost ungodly amount of it, I think that I am distinctly more qualified to comment on it than any random sampling. such as that one study which I can’t be bothered to find a link to now. Jaron Lanier says that “reading a Wikipedia [ READ MORE ]
so, apparently, just by tracking one’s browsing habits – literally, such basic data as how long you spend on the average site, how many sites you visit in the average browsing session – a virtual ‘clickprint’ can be created that will be matched against your online persona (‘digital body,’ perhaps) to confirm your identity. now, not [ READ MORE ]