Tag: letters
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Tag me stupid, baby!
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Andrew Orlowski
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This postbag contains small pieces of irony or humor which may choke small children or law professors Perhaps we should call them The New Literalists. Or is Nitpickers a better word? Or how about Pixel Pedants? The Road to Hell looks like it’s going to be Tagged With Good Intentions, if you pardon the twisted…
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EFF founder must be cheered for founding EFF – EFF Founder
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Andrew Orlowski
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He made it. Now it made him If you think that backslapping awards and honorific titles are a feudal relic – an archaic and degenerate indulgence of the old world’s imperial plutocracies, think again. They’re alive and well in the New World – and flourishing in the even Newer World of Cyberspace! Which, we can’t…
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Digital memories: cheap to take, cheaper to lose
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Andrew Orlowski
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The consequences of the dotcom bubble – being remembered this week five years on from the start of the crash – aren’t just financial. The largest loss of wealth in human history created a wasteland of dead pages and broken links. Now many of the same Dotcom People are back, persuading us to trust…