Making a better Internet: a story in three acts

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Making a better Internet a story in three acts

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Computer tycoon Sir Clive Sinclair, 69, weds his 33-year-old lap dancer

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WWIC

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“IOL has closed comments on this story due to the high volume of racist and/or derogatory comments.”

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Never read the bottom half of the Internet

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What surprises me the most about the bottom half of the internet, that place where all the angry comments go, is that so many of the people writing them turn out not to be rabid murderers but ordinary mild people who casually fire off drive-by verbal shootings in their lunch breaks. Sophie Heawood

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There’s a rule in the Council that no resolution can be debated on the day that it’s first proposed. Otherwise someone’s liable to say the first thing that comes into his head, and then start thinking up arguments to justify what he has said, instead of trying to decide what’s best for the community. Thomas Moore, Utopia “

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People The web is a technology, but more importantly, it is People constitute and maintain the network. Frank Chimero all the way down It is widespread and distributed, but it is very delicate. Like a real web, it needs constant maintenance to keep from tearing.

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Don’t be part of WWIC culture

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. “ Benjamin Franklin

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Amplify the top half of the Internet

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Make a better Internet

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If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely? Paul Ford

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Making a better Internet is not someone else’s job

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References http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1269050/Computer-tycoon-Sir-Clive-Sinclair-69-weds-33-year-old-lap-dancer.html http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/how-ancyl-plans-to-shut-down-cape-1.1357173 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sophie-heawood-save-dappy-from-the-venom-of-the-anonymous-1870283.html http://alwaysreadthemanual.com/ http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/08/02/the-best-social-media-policy-every-written/ http://blog.jackcheng.com/post/25160553986/the-slow-web http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/10-timeframes/ Feedback? I’m @RianVDM on Twitter http://xkcd.com/386/