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‘Take out a subscription to The Register. Then cancel it, and sign it Disgusted Wikipedian’
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Andrew Orlowski
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An early taxonomy of excuses. Mostly variations of “It’s the user’s fault.” “He who feels punctured must have been a bubble – Lao Tsu A funny thing happened last week. Author and broadcaster – and veteran OpenOffice user – Andrew Brown wrote a piece in The Guardian a fortnight ago demolishing some of the more…
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Mobile data too complex, too flakey – poll
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Andrew Orlowski
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But still we do it. Actually, we don’t – even with 3.5G networks it’s almost always quicker to ask a stranger than it is to look something up on a mobile phone. And more fun. Punters are giving flaky mobile data services the cold shoulder, a survey has revealed. 64 per cent of those surveyed…
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The Internet Services Puddle
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Andrew Orlowski
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What Ray Ozzie’s strategic memo really says. Ever the master of public relations, Microsoft has always been able to figure its way out of a tight spot with the use of a judiciously leaked memo. Remember when AOL merged with Netscape back in 1998? Time to take a leak. Remember 2000, when Symbian was stealing…
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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…