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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
On Being Slashdotted. There may be those who write in public and don't care who and how many people read, but I'm not one of them. So when I turned on the computer Tuesday morning and discovered by visiting Slashdot that they had a pointer to my XML Is Too Hard for Programmers piece, I woke up real fast. Herewith a bunch of random observations on the experience.... [ongoing]
Web Site Optimization. Now here is a site that is really focused on one thing, website optimization. I don't personally run my own website so I can't tell you if these tips are particularly good or not, but there certainly are a lot of them.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
Still clinging to the 'digital divide' politically correct foolishness? I've always been amused by the number of people who declare a crisis when anything new isn't instantly equally available to (or understood by) by every race, creed, color, religion, gender, age bracket, income level, education level, hair style, political persuasion...
You name it, there has always been a gradual adoption curve. Fire, written language, mathematics, religion, automobiles, radio, television, computers, basic education, higher education, PDAs, cell phones, CD players, DVD players... Digital divide, my ass. What about the 'fire divide' and the 'radio divide' and the 'television divide' and the 'you-name-it divide'? There aren't enough actual problems in life, so you have to create one?
Divide this...
Aggregator Overload - Good Stuff - Some Explored - Some Not
Wednesday, March 19, 2003On Being Slashdotted. There may be those who write in public and don't care who and how many people read, but I'm not one of them. So when I turned on the computer Tuesday morning and discovered by visiting Slashdot that they had a pointer to my XML Is Too Hard for Programmers piece, I woke up real fast. Herewith a bunch of random observations on the experience.... [ongoing]
Web Site Optimization. Now here is a site that is really focused on one thing, website optimization. I don't personally run my own website so I can't tell you if these tips are particularly good or not, but there certainly are a lot of them.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
Still clinging to the 'digital divide' politically correct foolishness? I've always been amused by the number of people who declare a crisis when anything new isn't instantly equally available to (or understood by) by every race, creed, color, religion, gender, age bracket, income level, education level, hair style, political persuasion...
You name it, there has always been a gradual adoption curve. Fire, written language, mathematics, religion, automobiles, radio, television, computers, basic education, higher education, PDAs, cell phones, CD players, DVD players... Digital divide, my ass. What about the 'fire divide' and the 'radio divide' and the 'television divide' and the 'you-name-it divide'? There aren't enough actual problems in life, so you have to create one?
Divide this...
The Digital Divide Shrinks Among Children. For a long time, those who have argued against worrying too much about the "digital divide" have pointed out that it's more between generations than between rich and poor. Thus, over time, the digital divide will work itself out, as more people grow up with access to computers. A new study seems to support at least some of this theory, showing that the digital divide is much smaller among children in the US. Children in wealthier homes are more likely to have broadband access, but it appears that more and more children of every economic situation have access to the internet in some manner. While they still use it mostly for games (of course), there is evidence that they also use it for helping with homework and research. [Techdirt]
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