Leading the Ignorant Masses to a Better Tomorrow

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FC Now: The Ignorant Network

FC Now: The Ignorant Network 04/01/2005 07:07 AM
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At Freedom to Connect, he riffed off of organizer David Isenberg's concept of the Stupid Network by...

Brooks, You Ignorant Slut

Brooks, You Ignorant Slut 04/11/2004 08:09 AM
told us .. (*)

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Digital Harbor Joins W3C; Leading
Composite Application Developer Joins
Industry-Leading Forum to Participate

Digital Harbor Joins W3C; Leading
Composite Application Developer Joins
Industry-Leading Forum to Participate 06/14/2004 02:48 PM
XMLMania.com Jun 14 2004 5:22PM GMT

Drivers ignorant about mobile phone law

Drivers ignorant about mobile phone law 11/03/2003 08:54 AM
Huh?

Survey: Americans ignorant about credit

Survey: Americans ignorant about credit 09/22/2004 12:50 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Tue Sep 21, 10:32 pm GMT

"Creationism: God's gift to the
ignorant"

"Creationism: God's gift to the
ignorant" 06/05/2005 11:45 PM

Wikipedia attacked by ignorant reporter

Wikipedia attacked by ignorant reporter 08/28/2004 06:43 PM

Al Fasoldt, staff writer at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, writes about how untrustworthy Wikipedia is based on an oh-so-trustworthy email from a librarian. Mr. Fasoldt asserts that Wikipedia is not a verifiable authority and that it is it is not trustworthy. Mike from Techdirt tries to explain Wikipedia to Mr. Fasoldt and receives insults in return. For those of you who haven't yet taken a good look at Wikipedia, you should. It is a community built encyclopedia where anyone can edit any of the 300,000+ articles in it. The fact that anyone can edit the pages appears to be why people like Mr. Fasoldt question its authority, but that is that exact reason that it has authority. Any comments that are extreme or not true just do not survive on Wikipedia. In fact, on very heated topics, you can see the back and forth negotiation of wordings by people with different views on a topic until, in many cases, a neutral and mutually agreeable wording is put in place and all parties are satisfied. Tradition authority is gained through a combination of talent, hard work and politics. Wikipedia and many open source projects gain their authority through the collective scrutiny of thousands of people. Although it depends a bit on the field, the question is whether something is more likely to be true coming from a source whose resume sounds authoritative or a source that has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people (with the ability to comment) and has survived.

I believe that Wikipedia is helping to revive the encyclopedia as a form and it hurts me to hear such ignorant criticisms. Having said that, Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal, Dan Gillmor of the Mercury News and many others have already written tons about Wikipedia so maybe I'm overreacting to an isolated case of ignorance and insulting the knowledge of my readers in the process...

Anyway, I was on the jury which gave Wikipedia the Golden Nica this year, the highest prize in the Digital Communities category for Prix Ars Electronica. I will be going to Linz, Austria next week to attend the festival and will be meeting the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. More on Wikipedia then.

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Welsh businesses ignorant of
intellectual property

Welsh businesses ignorant of
intellectual property 01/22/2004 03:34 PM
News Wales Jan 22 2004 5:40PM GMT

Joi Ito's Web: Wikipedia attacked by
ignorant reporter

Joi Ito's Web: Wikipedia attacked by
ignorant reporter 08/29/2004 11:02 PM
Read Joi Ito’s thoughts .. points

joi.ito.com/archives/2004/08/29/wikipedia_attacked_by_ignoran t_reporter.html
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"how utterly wrong, ignorant and
anti-American they are"

"how utterly wrong, ignorant and
anti-American they are" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

Survey reveals firms are ignorant to IT
security threats

Survey reveals firms are ignorant to IT
security threats 09/24/2004 05:15 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 24 2004 10:11AM GMT

Businesses ignorant of benefits of using
converged comms networks

Businesses ignorant of benefits of using
converged comms networks 05/10/2004 09:55 PM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 1:54AM GMT

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
- Weekend Review - Times Online

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
- Weekend Review - Times Online 06/05/2005 11:29 PM
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant - Weekend Review - Times Online .. Quote:

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TopRank Search Engine Marketing Agency
Ranked as a Leading SEO Firm by
TopSEOs.com - Leading Industry Resource
Endorses Search Marketing Company's
Services

TopRank Search Engine Marketing Agency
Ranked as a Leading SEO Firm by
TopSEOs.com - Leading Industry Resource
Endorses Search Marketing Company's
Services 03/17/2005 03:03 AM
TopRank Online Marketing, a leading search engine optimization (SEO) and online marketing firm, has been ranked #6 by TopSEOs.com, a critical buyer's guide for SEO services. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

Trying to Take Technology to the Masses

Trying to Take Technology to the Masses 08/15/2004 09:05 PM
Raj Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence, plans to unveil a $250 wirelessly networked personal computer.

Broadband for the masses?

Broadband for the masses? 04/14/2004 06:19 AM
Attorney Jim Baller is battling the Baby Bells and the cable companies for the right to let municipalities run their own telecommunications networks.

Wireles for the Masses

Wireles for the Masses 12/11/2003 02:32 PM
Tim Pozar has set up a network in San Francisco that delivers free Wi-Fi to neighborhoods: He beams the signals from the top of a hill down to houses, including his, that receive the signals and distribute them through the neighborhood. He's offering access for free to anyone who can reach it. His next stop is Marin County....

SAS unveils BI for the masses

SAS unveils BI for the masses 04/13/2005 06:01 PM
SAS Institute unveiled this week an interim release of Version 9 of its BI Enterprise Server. As an upgrade from Version 9 launched last year, the enhanced Web Report Studio will offer nontechnical business users access to a deep set of predictive analytics data.

$100 laptops for the masses

$100 laptops for the masses 04/04/2005 07:03 PM
Houston Chronicle Apr 4 2005 11:12PM GMT

Data Mining For the Masses

Data Mining For the Masses 07/29/2004 08:17 PM
A proposed data mining spec gets the green light for J2EE-compliant application servers.

XML For the Masses: PHPComplete's New
Tutorial

XML For the Masses: PHPComplete's New
Tutorial 08/14/2002 08:16 AM

Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050

Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050 12/31/2003 03:42 PM
securitas writes "Red Herring has a brief article about wide-scale VoIP deployment in Japan with the introduction of the new 050 area code. The new area code ...

Yet Another Computer Device For The
Masses

Yet Another Computer Device For The
Masses 08/16/2004 05:00 AM
A researcher at Carnegie Mellon is getting ready to launch a $250 computer/TV/DVD player for poorer parts of the world where users couldn't necessarily afford a more expensive computer. He's calling in the PCtvt, and the whole thing sounds like quite a noble goal, but haven't we seen this movie before, and wasn't it called the Simputer? Wasn't it also massively overhyped, delivered years late and hasn't done particularly well. Also, while the Simputer was a Linux box, it appears the PCtvt uses Microsoft software... so if the pricing is about the same as the Simputer, you have to assume they had less money to spend on the actual hardware.

Microsoft taking ALM to the masses

Microsoft taking ALM to the masses 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 17 2004 12:54PM GMT

Play Your iPods For The Masses

Play Your iPods For The Masses 03/14/2005 05:50 PM

Clubs are letting people plug-in and entertain the crowd, thanks to audio technology. By Kyle Munson, Des Monies Register

SAS unveils BI for the masses
(InfoWorld)

SAS unveils BI for the masses
(InfoWorld) 04/13/2005 05:26 PM
InfoWorld - SAS Institute unveiled this week an interim release of Version 9 of its BI Enterprise Server. As an upgrade from Version 9 launched last year, the enhanced Web Report Studio will offer nontechnical business users access to a deep set of predictive analytics data.

Sun Serves Java to the Masses

Sun Serves Java to the Masses 06/27/2004 08:55 PM
Debuts at JavaOne aim to lure the masses.

Driving 3G technology to the masses

Driving 3G technology to the masses 03/30/2005 03:32 AM
Electronics Talk Mar 30 2005 6:54AM GMT

SMIL: Multimedia for the Masses

SMIL: Multimedia for the Masses 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Fuel Cells for the Masses?

Fuel Cells for the Masses? 06/22/2004 01:45 PM
A PDA and cell-phone fuel cell is ready for the mass market.

Faster Ethernet for the masses

Faster Ethernet for the masses 06/21/2004 03:26 PM
ZDNet Jun 21 2004 8:07PM GMT

BT flogs bluephones to the masses

BT flogs bluephones to the masses 11/11/2003 05:48 AM
Hello Hoi, hello Polloi

OpenOffice: the XML format for the
masses

OpenOffice: the XML format for the
masses 12/18/2002 01:09 PM
Jean Paoli from Microsoft and Daniel Vogelheim for OpenOffice both chose the same title "XML for the masses" for their XML 2002 presentations, a commonality which hides two very different approaches from the editors of two competing office productivity suites.

Apple Prediction For The Masses

Apple Prediction For The Masses 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Handheld for masses has yet to reach
them

Handheld for masses has yet to reach
them 04/04/2005 04:33 AM
Boston Globe Apr 4 2005 8:18AM GMT

Military Headset Reaches Masses

Military Headset Reaches Masses 09/09/2004 05:18 AM
Sick of screaming to be heard over your cell phone in noisy places? A software firm claims its new headset, based on noise-reduction research it conducted for the U.S. military, will virtually eliminate background-noise disruptions. By Elisa Batista.

Tesco touts broadband for the masses

Tesco touts broadband for the masses 08/31/2004 12:02 PM
Pile it high, sell it cheap

Commitment in Driving 3G Wireless to the
Masses

Commitment in Driving 3G Wireless to the
Masses 03/29/2005 05:25 PM
3G Mar 29 2005 10:07PM GMT

BCS brings technology to masses through
course for technophobes

BCS brings technology to masses through
course for technophobes 02/16/2004 10:38 PM
Computer Weekly Feb 17 2004 2:17AM GMT
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Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) on XML in
Office 11

Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) on XML in
Office 11 11/17/2002 09:46 PM
Our goal is to enable end-users to use XML properly. The result is not for developers. We are for the masses. That's why we had to invent this mode where the XML guy or Web developer would be able to introduce a schema into something an end-user can understand, a template, and then the end-user is going to use that template. I know that in general the XML developers do not think about this kind of thing. But we are not here to enable XML developers to be happy creating XML. We are putting XML generation into the hands of people who do not understand XML at all.

"zeldman.adm"

FBI Teaches Lesson In How To Break Into
Wi-Fi Networks

FBI Teaches Lesson In How To Break Into
Wi-Fi Networks 04/10/2005 11:42 PM
Information Week Apr 11 2005 2:45AM GMT

The Apprentice teaches ShopNBC.com a
lesson in online marketing

The Apprentice teaches ShopNBC.com a
lesson in online marketing 04/19/2004 05:49 PM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 19 2004 9:25PM GMT

Paoli, Indiana doesn't look so bad
anymore...

Paoli, Indiana doesn't look so bad
anymore... 08/19/2004 11:56 AM
The 60 best cheapest places to live in America.

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard 04/22/2004 05:20 PM
Aimez-vous Godard? That Is, If You've Actually Seen One Of His Films. Gilberto Perez's view of Godard is strictly personal, as all opinions of his work must be. It does highlight, however, how neglected the restless author's films have lately been. For people of my generation, he was absolutely essential. The supreme cineaste, both with an accent on the "e" (as a film-maker) and without (as a film enthusiast). Whatever became of the Nouve lle Vague? It seems to me that the contemporary cinema could well do with another blast.

"Tanna Jean"

"Tanna Jean" 03/19/2005 02:42 AM

Creating a DVD for Wyclef Jean

Creating a DVD for Wyclef Jean 01/26/2004 04:13 PM
“The best DVDs will be made by directors who originate a concept, shoot it, post it and author it,” says Jim Swaffield. That’s how he created “The Preacher’s Son: Vibe Session,” starring hip-hop artist and former Fugees frontman Wyclef Jean. [Jan 23]

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, ICANN

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, ICANN 05/17/2004 07:42 AM
Internet News May 17 2004 10:56AM GMT

Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN

Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN 06/21/2004 02:19 PM

"Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook"

"Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook" 09/27/2004 11:17 AM

Jim Swaffield: Creating A DVD For Wyclef
Jean

Jim Swaffield: Creating A DVD For Wyclef
Jean 01/26/2004 06:31 PM
"This DVD is a comprehensive demonstration of Apple's pro capabilities and workflow from start to finish." By Bija Gutoff (Apple via MyAppleMenu)

Jean Rougeron: The French (Internet)
Connection

Jean Rougeron: The French (Internet)
Connection 12/31/2003 08:30 PM
AVN Online Dec 31 2003 7:14PM ET

"because Michael Moore is no Jean Paul
Sartre."

"because Michael Moore is no Jean Paul
Sartre." 06/27/2004 02:39 PM

XBurn 1.0 Osax from Jean-Baptiste Le
Stang

XBurn 1.0 Osax from Jean-Baptiste Le
Stang 12/25/2003 12:46 PM
Osax for Mac OS X10.2. XBurn is an osax that enables you to burn CDs or DVDs from AppleScript without using a third party application. XBurn is based on the DiscRecording framework provided by Apple.

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Nominating
Committee Chairman, ICANN

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Nominating
Committee Chairman, ICANN 05/14/2004 12:18 PM
Internet News May 14 2004 3:07PM GMT

The teaches of peaches

The teaches of peaches 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from instructional caption for the lethal "MONKEY STEALS THE PEACH" move: "Followers of the Iron Hand styles immediately clench their fists tightly, with a crushing grip, and jerk the hand sharply back to the near hip, effectively ripping away the genitals. Massive blood loss causes death."

Link to flickr post by Theremina, and here 's the full-size image (jpeg). (via Warren Ellis)

Reader comment: CMorrigu says,

In reference to the "Teaches with Peaches" story about "Monkey Steals the Peach" - the book this was taken from is Ninja Mind Control by Ashida Kim. I've owned this book for many years, and those two pages have always been the highlight. I used to show that section off to people all the time, but then I forgot about it. Thanks to Warren's post yesterday, I dragged the book out and laughed all over again.

Red vs. Blue teaches about life

Red vs. Blue teaches about life 08/18/2004 04:43 AM
Want to know what the difference is between real life and the internet? The funny folk at Red vs. Blue would be happy to demonstate. (Warning: 22.125MB Quicktime .mov file but worth the wait, I thought. The Red vs. Blue site also offers a DivX download.) Metafilterians may enjoy the Political Section, where they do political discussions as badly as we do. One naughty word may make the audio NSFW in some locations. Seen at Bifurcated Rivets.

Kathryn Jean Lopez on March for Women's
Lives on National Review Online

Kathryn Jean Lopez on March for Women's
Lives on National Review Online 04/27/2004 08:09 PM
"Pro-life is to Christianity as al Qaeda is to Islam." .. Katherine Jean Lopez on NRO

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Breen teaches syncing, other MUG news

Breen teaches syncing, other MUG news 08/29/2004 12:16 AM
On Saturday, Aug. 28, Washington Apple Pi will explain how to use AppleScript to "make nagging little chores a pleasure," Flint Apple Club will hold Mac'er 04 Swap Meet and Northeast Ohio Apple Corps will bring in Dr. Michael O'Connor and his daughter Nora to present the iMovies they've made about their recent humanitarian trip to the Honduras.

School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking'

School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking' 06/28/2004 03:08 PM

Expert Teaches Australians How to Flirt
(AP)

Expert Teaches Australians How to Flirt
(AP) 01/06/2004 09:15 AM
AP - Memo to Australia's lovelorn: your dating prospects are about to improve.

Dot Net Pointers from Daniel

Dot Net Pointers from Daniel 03/13/2003 06:14 PM
Source: Archipelago

Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent 12/20/2003 07:37 AM
uberblogger .. Instapundit

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Daniel Drezner

Daniel Drezner 11/02/2003 03:13 AM
concludes

danieldrezner.com/archives/000860.html
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Daniel Clowes on NPR

Daniel Clowes on NPR 06/24/2005 06:19 PM
David Pescovitz: Comix artist Daniel Clowes of Eightball and Ghost World fame was on National Public Radio's Fresh Air yesterday talking about his new comic strip novel, Ice Haven. It's loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murders of 1924. Clowes also rapped about his latest collaboration with director Terry Zwigoff, the filmic adaptation of the comic Art School Confidential. The interview is archived at the NPR site. Li nk

UPDATE: If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, Clowes is signing books tonight at the Booksmith on Haight Street at 7pm. Link

Student Teaches Robot to Fold Paper

Student Teaches Robot to Fold Paper 05/24/2004 10:38 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 24 2004 2:30PM GMT

Program teaches kids Internet safety

Program teaches kids Internet safety 02/18/2004 01:26 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Feb 18 2004 5:18PM GMT

Program Teaches Kids Internet Safety
(AP)

Program Teaches Kids Internet Safety
(AP) 02/18/2004 11:59 AM
AP - A new interactive computer program offers kids a way to protect themselves from Internet predators.

Science booklet for kids teaches
copyright instead

Science booklet for kids teaches
copyright instead 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Matt picked up a National Geographic science booklet for kids and discovered that it contains subtle propaganda for copyright maximalism:

"Suppose you have permission to photocopy the picture of Paramecium, and you enlarge it to twice its size. Would the magnification of x110 still be correct? Explain."

Note how it says, "suppose you have permission to photocopy the picture," instead of, "suppose you photocopy the picture," or even, "photocopy the picture."

Derrrrrr. Somehow the issue of copyright infringement has made its way explicitly and incongruously into a children's science booklet.

Link (Thanks, Matt!)

China teaches "real love" (Reuters)

China teaches "real love" (Reuters) 08/31/2004 10:23 PM
Reuters - China's eastern financial hub of Shanghai is adding a dash of romance to the school curriculum to teach children about real love, as opposed to the Internet chatroom variety.

Leading the Ignorant Masses to a Better Tomorrow

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