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Web 2.0: It’s … like your brain on LSD!
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Andrew Orlowski
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. My invitation to define Web 2.0 – Tim O’Reilly was clearly struggling – biggest postbag at The Register, ever: five a minute for 24 hours. You’ll see from the suggestions that even before most people had heard the buzzword, they already knew what it portended: a consultancy racket. See the original here, and the…
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Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems
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Andrew Orlowski
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Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer associated with the project, pleaded with the management…
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Six Things you need to know about Bubble 2.0
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Andrew Orlowski
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We follow the money Web 2.0 Techno utopian types love their earthy metaphors. The web is a new planet that’s being “terraformed” before our eyes, one advertising consultant likes to say. Or the “web is a garden“, if you believe Sun Microsystem’s director of research. Even my overgrown garden doesn’t have something like this lurking…
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‘p2p is leagal its already bought its in the air’
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Andrew Orlowski
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The following letter was sent from a K12 school account in a southern US state. It illustrates the problems facing both paid legal download services, such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store and Napster, and the RIAA’s attempt to combat the illegal download services. We’ve protected their identity, for reasons which should become obvious. when will…
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Ireland counts the cost of MIT Media Lab fiasco
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Andrew Orlowski
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$40m down the bog The Irish government invested $40m of taxpayers’ money in MIT’s Media’s Lab Europe – and has bugger all to show for it. A report by the Republic’s public auditor-general also reveals that Media Lab executives awarded themselves large severance pay-offs when the money was running out, and refused to refund public…