Never Hire a Poet – or you might have to Dooce them
Who knew that poetry was a form of job security? Well maybe not, but at least they are articulate!
For the unitiated, more on Dooce
Spam is part of the System – fakeyourspace and Twitter Jacking
Any social network eventually gets abused. Digg has people paying to have their articles dugg. From a deneyterrio link, you can now fakeyourspace. From his email:
Do you wish you had hot friends on
your myspace page? Do you wish these hot friends would comment on your myspace
page? What if I told you that you could have both and more. http://fakeyourspace.com/index.htmlYou can pay this site to post
attractive pictures of ‘friends’ and they will comment what ever you tell them
to. A limited time offer of $.99/month. Sign up
soon!!Now if you excuse me I am going to
go kill myself because the circles of hell are opening
I had to leave that last part in there JayMac.
And of course you have Eric Jumping the Shark for Twitter too. Nice.
Presidential Candidate Web Sites Reviewed on Slashdot
Slashdot, the largest geek oriented site in the world, has a post comparing the presidential candidates web sites.
Reviewing the Presidential Campaign Websites
Yes slashdot (also shortened to /. ) is alpha geek focused. But it is a definite lead in to NYT and the Post. So it is worth the time if you are interested in politics. One last note – if you are not used to the slashdot site, flaming is …er… somewhat normal behavior.
Just Discovered Many Eyes for Visualizations
Via CorpBlawg, I just discovered Many Eyes for visualization of data. Cool!
Online Disinhibition Effect … or FLAME THE #$(*&)@#!ERS
The NYT has a great article today on flaming. I still view the shirky article "Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software" as the best explanation of online flaming, but the new article is perhaps easier to read. From the article:
Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior
…flaming, or sending a message that is taken as offensive, embarrassing or downright rude.
The hallmark of the flame is precisely what Jett lamented: thoughts expressed while sitting alone at the keyboard would be put more diplomatically — or go unmentioned — face to face.
Flaming has a technical name, the “online disinhibition effect,” which psychologists apply to the many ways people behave with less restraint in cyberspace.
(Ed: link added by me).