| The Web
is a
democracy
of opportunity, but not necessarily of beautiful,
fertile ground where
all sorts of
organizations could theoretically survive. But the
selection
process has been incredibly fast.[265] |
Just as the World
Wide Web seems to be turning every computer owner into a "content
provider"—publisher, broadcaster, artist,
commentator—the auction sites promise to
make all of us merchants. |
…if the web feels like a frontier, it's
because for the
first time in history, we are witnessing biological
growth in technological systems. |
| The PC
industry is changing drastically and when
it is over it probably won't even be called the
PC industry. It will become the
web infrastructure industry. |
I
know this about Meg because I read it a few months
ago on her personal Web
site, which is called
Megnut.com. I've been reading Megnut
for a while now, so I know all kinds of things about its author, like
how much she loved Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry," and how she wishes
there were good fish tacos to be had in San Francisco, where she lives.
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Having a
blog is rather like publishing your own, on-line version of Reader's
Digest, with daily updates: you troll the Internet, and, when you
find an article or a
Web site that grabs you, you link
to it—or, in weblog
parlance, you "blog" it. Then other people
who have blogs—they are known as bloggers—read
your blog, and if they like it they
blog your blog on their own blog. |
Why don't
I
just write it down somewhere private…
a Word
doc on my computer or in a paper diary?
Somehow, that seems strange to me though… The
Web is the place for you to express your thoughts and feelings and
such. To put those things somewhere else seems absurd. [222]
|
Now,
we're
writing documents
that contain logic. It's a huge step
forward toward a semantic web,
which handles the meaning of data. |
AIM addicts,
what a concept, and who would have ever
thought they would be addicted to a
site about being
addicted to AIM?? Not I, unfortunately though,
I must be
realistic, I am addicted, severely addicted may I add, 67% severely
addicted :-\. AIM started out as a fun after school thing for me and
has progressed into a deep addiction, so bad that I suffer withdrawals
after 8 hours of no
computer as I found out last night while camping
out for an apartment...yes camping :-\ How desperate? [361] |
Since anyone with a good modem and access to the Internet can put up a website in the name of Islam, there is risk of misrepresentation. There have been cases of fabricated verses of the Qur'an and hadith put on the Internet. This has been recognized as a serious challenge and Muslims are trying to develop a system of certification and authentication of the data, especially for the translation of the Qur'an and ahadith before these are put on the Internet. But these challenges are secondary to the potential which the Internet has unleashed. Regardless of these obstacles, Islam and Muslims are experiencing a real growth after five centuries of stagnation. [291]
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Most of the committee's attention is focused on the Web. Here, streaming video — still in its infancy — may eventually attain both the technical quality and reach to cut into television audiences. This could, in turn, dilute the value of the most valuable assest of the Olympics: broadcasting rights. [254]
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The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next thing that is suggested by an association of thoughts in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.[17]
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The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next thing that is suggested by an association of thoughts in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. [17]
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I'm 48, and for me I can't do it. But my kids are in high school and they read books from beginning to end on the web.
[87] |
For a modest fee, you can disaggregate your identity with a software package called Freedom, which initially gives you five digital pseudonyms, or "nyms," that you can assign to different activities, from discussing politics to surfing the Web.
[177] |
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The days of investing in Web sites we love are over. People rave about Google. But as a business, it will take an awful lot for them to catch up to Overture.
[343] |
Unless information is stabilized by a strong evaluative filter, such as science, with its controlled experiments and repeatable results, it gets swamped by simpler, stabler misinformation. If the people who design and run the Web don't develop reliable ways to evaluate and stabilize information, the internet may become the agent of social chaos.
[182] |
Once I realized that I will never understand its workings as I understand the typewriter—that understanding the computer is beyond my capability and something not expected of me, that I could simply be a drone and that was O.K.—I began to love going on the web.
[38] |
| What I worry about when it comes to the
Web is that people are encouraged to drill down into their areas of concern to such a degree that they get closeted in their own reflections of themselves. That can militate against an open society. And surfing was a way out of that.
[263] | | |