Making a better internet

Making a better Interneta story in three acts

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

WWIC

“IOL has closed comments on this story 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 no resolution can be debated on the day that it’s first proposed. Otherwise someone’s liable to say the first thing that comes into his head, and then start thinking up arguments to justify what he has said, instead of trying to decide what’s best for the community.

Thomas Moore, Utopia

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PeopleThe web is a technology, but more importantly, it is

People constitute and maintain the network.

Frank Chimero

all the way down

It is widespread and distributed, but it is very delicate.Like a real web, it needs constant maintenance to keep from tearing.

Don’t bepart of WWIC culture

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong 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 form

of our products, in the form of the things

we make, to spend their heartbeats on

us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far

more sure than we are now, that they

spend those heartbeats wisely?Paul Ford

Making a better Internetis not someone else’s job

References

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/

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