Making a better Internet: a story in three acts

Transcript

1. Making a better Internet a story in three acts

2. None

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

   dancer
4. None

5. WWIC

6. “IOL has closed comments on this story due to the

   high volume of racist and/or derogatory comments.”
7. None

8. Never read the bottom half of the Internet

9. 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

10. 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 “
11. None
12. None
13. None

14. 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.
15. None
16. None

17. Don’t be part of WWIC culture

18. 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
19. None

20. Amplify the top half of the Internet

21. None

22. Make a better Internet

23. None

24. 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

25. Making a better Internet is not someone else’s job

26. 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/