December 15, 2006
Since you don’t have to face the person you’re dumping on, you don’t see any reason to display courtesy.”… A lack of consequence to anonymous interaction inevitably leads to an avoidance of personal responsibility for one’s actions, with fairly predictable results. And so, what was in the early days of the internet a mere trickle of incivility has become a raging torrent of unrestrained, frustrated, adolescent angst. On the Web, everyone can hear you scream.I’ve often thought that Web 2.0 was far too much like high schoolRegular readers may have noticed that posting here has been scarce recently.
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December 6, 2006
All of this brouhaha strikes me as enormously tedious, but three observations do come to mind, all about the media angle.First, there is little in any of the coverage that links the reorg to the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, which called for organizational change and seemed at the time like an effort to force that issue out into the open. There are references, but surprisingly few.Second, the spinny headlines of Yahoo!’s PR and corporate blog contributions are very like – no, pretty much exactly like – flashing red lights pointing the reader to tediously official and profoundly less interesting content about the event…. One always reads this material with a jaundiced eye, but a point comes when incredible becomes discreditable…. Mainstream media really has few advantages left, if any, over the ‘tropolis’ ability to report original content about tech and write it up in a smart, engaging and savvy style.
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