Making a better internet

Making a better Internet a story in three acts

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

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

Never readthe bottom half of the Internet

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

“There’s a rule in the Council that noresolution can be debated on the daythat it’s first proposed. Otherwisesomeone’s liable to say the first thingthat comes into his head, and thenstart thinking up arguments to justifywhat he has said, instead of trying todecide what’s best for the community. Thomas Moore, Utopia

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

Don’t bepart of WWIC culture

“Remember not only to say the rightthing in the right place, but far moredifficult still, to leave unsaid thewrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin

Amplifythe top half of the Internet

Makea better Internet

If we are going to ask people, in the formof our products, in the form of the thingswe make, to spend their heartbeats onus, on our ideas, how can we be sure, farmore sure than we are now, that theyspend those heartbeats wisely? Paul Ford

Making a better Internet is not someone else’s job

References http://xkcd.com/386/ 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

Making a better internet

by Rian van der Merwe on Oct 01, 2012

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