Tag: blogs
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Are you trying to be funny? If so check [ ] this box
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Andrew Orlowski
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The return of the irony tag
After ten years of the net, few amongst us have yet to realize that computer networks can be a lousy communication medium. Against all the good things that we’ve gained – such as the disappearance of physical distance, traversed by very slow moving postal workers – we must stack up the losses. And top of that list is the fact that most of the delicious ambiguities of language that we enjoy in everyday life … Read More
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Harvard Man in lesbian mix-up wants satire clearly labeled
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Andrew Orlowski
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Draq queen causes Podcast confusion
The two fathers of ‘podcasting’ have called for jokes and satirical broadcasts to be clearly labelled as such, after they were bamboozled by a comic female impersonator.
Two “bloggers” – former MTV video jockey Adam Curry and former software developer Dave Winer cooked up the idea of enclosing audio files in some XML code so they could be pulled off the web onto a portable device – a nifty, if not terrible original idea. With … Read More
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62pc of netizens unaware of Pajamahadeen militants
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Andrew Orlowski
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New research suggests that the internet’s echo chamber has much thicker walls than scientists previously thought. So thick, it seems, that an explosion the size of the Blogosphere can barely be detected in the real world. At best, only some faint, metallic clanging sounds can be heard outside – the eerie sound of the Pajamahadeen [UK English: Pyjamahadeen] inside the chamber, hammering away at their computer keyboards.
The research was conducted by good-news foundation the Pew Trust in the United … Read More