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What are zombies and trolls?
What are zombies and trolls?
02/05/2005 09:26 PMDave, I’m surrounded by strange jargon and I feel like an extra
in a B-grade horror movie. One mailing list I’m on has
“trolls”, and the latest virus can turn my computer into a
“zombie”, and my ISP keeps talking about
“demons”! Egads! Do I need some sort of exorcist to use my
computer now??…
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Trolls Follow Me to Amazon
Trolls Follow Me to Amazon
08/01/2004 01:26 PMUPDATED
The book officially went
on sale at
Amazon.com yesterday, moving from "pre-order" to "add to shopping
cart" status. Within a couple of hours, someone had posted a
mean-spirited review that, besides defying logic, contained an
outright falsehood. The reviewer, using the name "Lynne," claimed that
I hadn't covered subjects such as online defamation and impersonation,
when in fact there's an entire chapter devoted to those and related
topics.
I'd like to post a response on Amazon, but I can't figure out how to
do it without giving the book a star rating, which would not be
appropriate for me to do.
UPDATE: I took the advice of a commenter below, who suggested using
the rating to balance out the other review along with a note
explaining why. I've submitted a response accordingly.
In the book, I guessed that people who don't like what I've written
elsewhere -- people like the trolls here -- would abuse the Amazon
review process in this way. Sorry to see that I was right.
By the way, in today's Mercury News is a book review (site registration required) from an
outside investigative journalist and educator, Steve Weinberg.
(Cross-posted to We the
Media.)Yahoo Trolls the Invisible Web
Yahoo Trolls the Invisible Web
03/06/2004 01:56 AMYahoo crawls deep into the
Web: I'm nervous that this will lead to people found out about
that murder conviction in '78.
Yahoo on Tuesday began a systematic effort to draw more
content into its searchable database of Web documents, its latest bid
to win Web surfers from search rival Google.
The Web portal, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., introduced its Content
Acquisition Program designed to index the billions of documents
contained in public databases but that are commonly inaccessible to
search engines, or what's called the invisible or deep
Web.
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of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls
of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls
06/05/2005 11:52 PMEver since I interviewed Dave about blogs for my book, Free Culture,
I've been thinking a lot about his idea of "amateur journalists." It
is a powerful concept, which rewards careful thought. To see its
value, we must remember the original meaning of "amateur," meaning one
who does something for the love of it alone. And when we think of
journalism that is regulated by those ideals, it is easy to see why
such journalism nicely complements commerical journalism. As he
sa
id to me,
"An amateur journalist simply doesn't have a conflict of
interest, or the conflict of interest is so easily disclosed that you
know you can sort of get it out of the way."
It is because I found Dave's view so compelling that I've been worried
for sometime about the emergence of advertising in blog space. I'm not
against it. I just worry about how it might put pressure on the
"doesn't have a conflict of interest" norm. If the virtue of the
amateur is to seek the truth, that virtue could be in tension with the
desire to earn more ad revenue. The simplest way to get linkbacks is
to say the most absurd things imaginable.
But the more I've talked about this with observers and friends, the
more I think the real fear is not bloggers tempted by ad revenues. It
is instead the emergence of the equivalent of tabloids in blog-space:
commercial entities whose sole purpose is to generate ad revenue, who
do that by being as ridiculous and extreme as possible.
The danger here is that the conflict has returned. Just as the British
tabloids care little about the truth in their path to selling papers,
commercial blog-loids care little about the truth in trying to attract
eyeballs. And it is here that the cycle turn vicious: for the amateur
space feeds the professional troll by careful and repeated efforts to
show that claims made are false or outrageous. If you're paid by the
click, who cares why people click.
This creates a dilemma for open and honest disagreement about the
facts. For here there is a conflict in interest: the interest of the
amateur journalist is not the interest of the professional troll. Yet
the only way the amateur can do his job -- by quoting and criticizing
-- is to feed the troll.
We either need a way to cite that doesn't reward bad behavior.
(Copyright law restricts that (Google, for example, would be really
angry if you started linking to caches rather than original
locations).) Or we need a way to know when to ignore.
In either case, imho, it would be useful to think more about this
conflict in interest, if the nature of the amateur space is not to be
displaced by something different.
Happy PFD!...?
Happy PFD!...?
01/16/2004 11:02 AM Anyone in the mood for a celebration!?
Today is
Personal
Firewall Day! Who's bringing drinks?
If You're Happy and You Know It...
If You're Happy and You Know It...
08/11/2004 01:58 PMCisco's warning casts a pall over the entire technology industry. What
took 'em so long?
.HAPPY
.HAPPY
02/10/2004 03:00 AMThe issue was a misnamed Form variable. :)~ Saw it in the first 5
mintues this morning. A fresh head always helps.
.NET's code behind feature is great. I getting used to using it
properly. One pet peeve. I learned VB purely from the Microsoft
Documentation and a couple of books. The code samples are too complex
in .Net's documentation. They need to provide smaller pieces of
functionality. For example, to describe creating a web component, they
try and take you through an entire application. Not very XPish of
them. too much clutter. All I need for an example, is an example of
the component and the component being embedded in the page. All the
rest confuses the issue.
Are you happy now?
Are you happy now?
03/13/2003 03:27 PM A 100-ton mech
is the ultimate fishing machine. With upcoming titles like
Steelhead Battalion and
Cthulhu
Karts, it's possible that
Schadenfreude Interactive might
be the next game industry juggernaut. Or they may be an April Fool's
prank spotted in the pages of the April issue of
Computer
Games.
One happy, one sad
One happy, one sad
01/30/2004 02:04 AMTwo things before breakfast, one happy, one sad. Happy: Downloadable
MP3s from The Paris Review - including a great story by George
Plimpton, read by himself. Sad: Weblog DDoS attacks, happening in the
wild. not only there but here, and...
Very Very Happy
Very Very Happy
05/26/2004 04:36 AMThe Only Conservative Blogposts You Ever Have to Read .. Blogging: The
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Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
02/01/2005 10:10 PMLorcan Dempsey posted some astounding numbers to his blog yesterday. Emphasis
below is mine. Prepare to be amazed.
WorldCat in Your
Pocket
“WorldCat is our union catalogue of about 56 million
bibliographic records, which represent approximately a billion
holdings. It is about 50 gigabytes in MARC Communications (100+
gigabytes in XML) format and about 23 gigabytes compressed.
OCLC Research recently
acquired a 24-node (48-cpu) Beowulf cluster with 96 Gigabytes of
memory. According to my colleague Thom Hickey,
whose team has been working on the machine, the cluster speeds up most
bibliographic processing by about a factor of 30. This means that what
might have taken a minute now takes two seconds, what might have taken
an hour takes two minutes, what might have taken a month takes a day.
For jobs that will fit entirely in memory (e.g. a `grep' of WorldCat)
avoiding disk i/o gives another factor of about 20, reducing 1-hour
jobs down to 6 seconds. We can 'frbrize<
/a>' WorldCat on the cluster in about an hour.
WorldCat
is also now more mobile. Thom has a 40 gig iPod which can accommodate
WorldCat on its disk with room left for 5,000 song tracks.
Now, you can't do much with the data on the iPod, but you can
certainly carry it around. Again, it takes about an hour to get it on
and off the iPod.” [Lorcan
Dempsey’s Weblog, via It&rs
quo;s All Good]
They’re all amazing
numbers, but think about that iPod statement for a moment. What
does it mean when a patron can carry around the whole, freaking
WorldCat database? We’re not that far off from the introduction
of the personal, mobile server in your pocket.
Happy
Happy
02/01/2005 09:44 PMIt’s like this: you get a slightly-scary physical symptom and you go
and tell your doctor and she frowns and says “well, we better run
some tests and make a date with a specialist”, and you go to the
specialist and he works you over and looks at the tests and says
“yeah, that’s a weird one, it happens sometimes, we don’t know
why, it might happen again, it won’t hurt you, don’t worry about
it.”
Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day!
03/14/2003 01:09 PM Happy Pi
Day! At 1:59 PST, the San Francisco Exploratorium kicks off its Pi
Day festivities. If you can't make it, here are
more activities
or you can just sing a
song to ?.
FC Now: Happy Holidays!
FC Now: Happy Holidays!
12/24/2004 12:26 PMI cannot speak for my fellow FC Now contributors and teammates, but I
do know that I'll be out of the office -- and offline -- Dec. 23 to
Jan. 3 for the holidays. We've lined up a good holiday...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
12/31/2003 04:59 PMHappy New Year indeed
Happy New Year indeed
01/22/2004 08:46 PMgoogle.com/search?q=chinese+new+year+2004
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Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
12/25/2003 12:51 PMFor those of us with ass jobs have a good day off until getting back
to the grindstone tomorrow.
Happy New Year Everybody
Happy New Year Everybody
01/07/2004 04:39 PM
With just 15 minutes of 2003 remaining, I would like to thank
everyone on blogosphere.
May the year 2004, Year of the Monkey, bring you much love, joy,
happyness, wealth,
and health.
Happy Hands
Happy Hands
09/09/2004 01:57 AMAbcnews.go.com - Tue Sep 7, 10:42 am GMT
"Happy New Year indeed."
"Happy New Year indeed."
01/23/2004 06:31 PM*does the happy kid dance*
*does the happy kid dance*
06/30/2004 11:31 AMOne phone call, can make your day....
FC Now: Happy 2005!
FC Now: Happy 2005!
01/04/2005 07:14 AMI don't know about you, but my head is still pounding from the
infamous night of debauchery, which unfolded this New Year's Eve. My
headache arose not from the drinking, but more from the exorbitant
amount of time spent planning...
Happy New Year to all
Happy New Year to all
12/31/2003 07:20 PMInternetRetailer.com Dec 31 2003 6:12PM ET
Happy House
Happy House
01/12/2004 03:02 AMgood geek girlfriends give good geeky presents.
Happy Reading.
Happy Reading.
12/28/2004 01:51 AM
eSchol
arship Editions. Like ebooks? Want something free,
nonfiction,"scholarly", publicly accessible, and more recent
than
Gutenberg ? (Lately I'm
on an Ancient History kick.) My problem with this
"eScholarship" site is they try to make it hard to download
a whole ebook to read offline. For one of those, for people who are
interested in 20th-century political history-cum-theory that's never
had much to do with any U.S. election, today I'm recommending
the Platform. Happy New Year !
Happy New Year !
01/01/2004 03:18 AMWell we all made it through another year here at ActiveNetwork and our
entire staff would like to thank all our viewers for your continued
support since our conception back in 1997. With all the additions over
the years we think we have certainly come a long way since then.
happy new year!
happy new year!
01/01/2004 11:07 AMI got to Madrid okay yesterday, but, in the end, I couldn't get the
modem connection to work properly... and in truth I didn't spend that
much time with it (I fixed that a few minutes ago problems with a DHCP
connection that required some fixed TCP/IP settings)...
... but now we're about to leave, so I'll be brief: Happy 2004
everyone!
PS: Digital life resumes tomorrow afternoon, after I get back to
Dublin. :)
Mailsmith Happy
Mailsmith Happy
02/10/2004 02:45 AM
I finally
did it. I broke down and bought Mailsmith.
I used Mailsmith 1.0 and 1.5 when OS X was first released, because
Apple's Mail.app was utterly horrible, and I received a free NFR copy
because I was working for a small Macintosh news site at the time...
and Bare Bones saw fit to give us a copy for review... so I reviewed
it and fell in love (the review was never published).
But then, Apple's Mail got better with Jaguar, and even better with
Panther, but this past week something in Mail broke. I don't know why
or what and can't really explain the problems I'm having with Mail
other than to say that after reading and deleting 4-5 emails, Mail.app
crashes for no apparent reason. Happens every time I fire it up. And
the Junk-mail filters just quit working, so now, I'm getting 100+ junk
mails in my in-box... perhaps MyDoom is to blame for Mail.app crapping
out on me...
So, I figured I'd switch back over to Mailsmith until I could
figure out the problem with Mail.app. Within 5 minutes of using
Mailsmith 1.5, I was in love again (and yes, I love BBEdit, and I
think that's what drives my fascination with Mailsmith). So, I zipped
over to Bare Bones.com to buy the latest version of Mailsmith, and
guess what? It comes free with SpamSieve from Michael
Tsai, too. Woohoo!
And now, I'm Mailsmith happy again, and not getting any more spam,
and loving it. I guess the coolest part is that Mailsmith 2.x picked
up all of my old 1.5 settings and preferences, and imported all of my
email from Mail.app with no problems... And now I don't have to read
HTML email anymore either. What a bonus.
Thanks Bare Bones.
And no, folks, I don't think $99 is too much to pay for a mail
client, espectially when you work 'in your email client' as much as I
do.
Further Reading: You Have
New Mail [from daringfireball.net] and True
Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher [from Tidbits]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01/01/2004 05:09 PM
Some Fun:
Information Security Predictions for 2004!
Happy 2004!
Happy 2004!
12/31/2003 09:37 PMChances are, it's already 2004 where you live, or it will be in a few
short hours. Here's to a happy New Year, full of geekery, a bit of
gamin', and most importantly, family and friends.
Happy New Year's Eve!
Happy New Year's Eve!
12/31/2004 10:14 AMNo new hints today. Enjoy a safe and fun New Year's Eve, and we'll see
you all back here on Monday morning!
-rob.
Happy New Worm
Happy New Worm
01/02/2004 03:42 PMZDNet Jan 2 2004 3:27PM ET
Happy Sylvester
Happy Sylvester
01/05/2004 11:03 AM Hanan Cohen explains why Israeli's refer to New Years Eve as
"Sylvester": It's just because Israel is a Jewish state. The [Jewish]
new year holiday is celebrated on the eve of Tishrei 1st. People who
immigrated to Israel from western countries still wanted to celebrate
the "old" new year, like at home, but could not say that they were
celebrating the new year so they used instead the Catholic name of the
day, Sylvester. That's why the Jews in Israel celebrate the event
using a name of a Catholic saint. Hanan also points to an article
about the 25%...
"happy ending"
"happy ending"
05/21/2004 03:49 AMDo Not Taunt Happy Fun Bag
Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Bag
02/12/2004 11:26 AMThere's no better party favor than a free-range breast implant,
according to Pessimistic.Com. Especially for men: "One by one they
explored the unknown territory of breast ownership, previously
inhabited only by women."
(02-12)
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day
02/14/2004 12:13 PM
Love is all that
matters.
(image: a snapshot I
took at Burning Man 2003 -- full size here).
Happy B-Day Gary!
Happy B-Day Gary!
08/07/2004 07:21 PM
I didn't find out about Gary Turner's b-day through Ryze, some
classmates knock-off or even an email. I found out about it through
RSS, which (I assume) he posted initially at Flickr and which then
ricocheted into his blog.
So first of all - congrats to Gary (hopefully I'll get to meet him
Sept. 13th), and congrats to Stewart and the team at Ludicorp for
evolving Flickr into what it is
today.
At first glance I thought of Flickr a predominanly an IM your photo
kind of RIA. But it's much more than that.
The Calendaring, the PhotoRSS, the Fotonotes, a more coming - I'm
sure.
Happy Birthday To Us
Happy Birthday To Us
06/02/2004 11:39 AMHappy Sys Admin Day!
Happy Sys Admin Day!
07/30/2004 05:05 AM
Today is the
5th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day! Time to think of those who
keep our favorite sites running.
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