“I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here’s a parcel of land, sign up, cultivate it, it’s yours. There’s all this land out there right now.”
Dan Abrams
more infosource: “The Dan and Dave Show,” by Peter Stevenson, The New York Times, December 10, 2010.
category: Internet, land, technology
medium: newspaper article
“I do think that socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.”
Aaron Sorkin
more infosource: The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, September 30, 2010.
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category: Internet, reality, socializing, technology, television
medium: television interview
via: Elisa Zazzera“Amazingly, America—the birthplace of the Internet—is the only developed nation that does not teach programming in its public schools.”
Douglas Rushkoff
more infosource: “Why Johnny Can’t Program,” The Huffington Post, September 30, 2010.
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category: computer, education, Internet, programming, technology
medium: online newspaper
“The one thing that’s a bit of a drag is the hyper-dominance of Facebook and Twitter, [which] feels really monolithic and dull to me. I don’t like the way they look, I don’t like the way they feel. I feel like they’re huge Soviet apartment blocks that we’ve all been forced to live in. And if you want to really reach a lot of people, you bloody well better get yourself an apartment there. But it’s going to look like everyone else’s apartment, and you’re going to have to communicate through their Soviet centralised communication system. I don’t even think the metaphor is a bad one; because everyone is watching. Certainly the advertisers are watching. That’s why these entities are so valuable.”
Jennifer Egan
more infosource: “The Q&A: Jennifer Egan, Novelist,” by Alexander Benaim, More Intelligent Life .
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category: advertisement, apartment, communication, Facebook, Internet, metaphor, monolithic, Russia, social media, Soviet, Twitter
medium: interview
via: The Bronze Medal“It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances—no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you’ve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you.”
Jeffrey Rosen
more infosource: “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” The New York Times, July 19, 2010.
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category: identity, Internet, memory, past, reputation, shame, technology
medium: newspaper article
“In the age of Google, when everything you say is forever searchable, the future belongs to those who leave no footprints.”
Thomas L. Friedman
more infosource: “Can We Talk?,” The New York Times, July 16, 2010.
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category: future, Google, identity, Internet, technology
medium: Op-Ed
“The key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks.”
Andrew Sullivan
more infosource: “Why I Blog,” The Atlantic, November 2008.
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category: Blog, broadcast, Internet, journalism, publishing, technology
medium: nonfiction
“The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students…It could be that the real debate will not be books versus the Internet but how to build an Internet counterculture that will better attract people to serious learning.”
David Brooks
more infosource: “The Medium is the Medium,” The New York Times, July 8, 2010.
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category: book, conversation, education, Internet, literature, student
medium: Op-Ed
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