Posted in life, nerdliness on Apr 21st, 2008
Zanshin.net is just a speck of lint under a finger nail on the long arm of the Internet. Â As a weblog it gets few visitors, and even fewer comments. Â While the domain has existed for over 11 years now, the site has been formatted as a blog only since December 1999. Â I have no accurate, [...]
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Posted in social issues on Mar 28th, 2008
There were two articles yesterday about anonymity online, and the potential good or bad that can result. Paul Stamatiou, a computational media senior at Georgia Tech, talked about the perils of anonymous users in social networks. He lists a couple of pros and cons:
Pros: No barriers to entry. If someone wants to get [...]
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Posted in social issues on Mar 24th, 2008
In A Boy The Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly, on the New York Times web site, the story of Billy Wolfe is told. As I read through the story my own emotions were in turmoil. As a child all through out grade school, junior high, and the first couple years of high [...]
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