Ich habe hier einen Auszug aus meiner .plan Datei. Wer an der HS-Karlsruhe ist kann mit finger dominic fandrey darauf zugreifen. Da das kein öffentliches Forum ist, poste ich es auch hier.
Bitte entschuldigt das Englisch, aber ich habe keine Lust das auch noch auf Deutsch zu übersetzen.
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Tue 2 Mar 2010 10:05:08 CET
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Today I have two issues to write about. Why I love Metal and why cyberspace has
to declare war upon stupidity. I will only write about the latter and address
the other issue another day.
On the 10th of February 2010 readwriteweb.com published an article about
Facebook attempting to integrate their login with AIM. A strategy similar
to those of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. The benefits to the users are the
same as result from OpenID, only the privacy implications are much more
troublesome.
Anyway, this is beside the point of this rant. What happened is that this
article became the top hit to the search words "Facebook" and "login" on Google.
And as it turned out, a lot of people do not go to Facebook to login, instead
they enter "Facebook login" in Google and follow the first link.
So within hours the news article was flooded with comments about how much the
new Facebook design sucks and people demanded their login form back.
A couple of hours later RWW posted an article about this phenomenon:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_the_internet_is_hard.php
All in all the article concludes that the users rule the internet and most
users are online illiterates (with that I mean they do not understand or even
attempt to understand it).
In short, stupid people rule the internet and it should thus be designed
taking this into consideration.
And this, in my opinion, is entirely wrong! Interfaces should be designed to
be efficient and fast to learn, as Jef Raskin might have said, to quickly
drift into the realm of the cognitive-unconscious. This is not the same as
appealing to the crowds of stupidity.
We live in a degenerative society where people feel content and righteous about
their ignorance. And acceptance of that has led to a society where everything
that needs learning is considered a waste of time. But cyberspace used to be
all about self-education. A place where people tried to /understand/ through
social networking, not in Facebook, but on UseNet, IRC in mailing lists and
other forums, places for the sharing of knowledge.
Many of us still do use the web in this fashion, but the net grows all the time
and our number does not keep up. The Eternal September still lasts.
My plea is to fight this oncoming age of ignorance. Cyberspace should be a
haven to those who wish to be educated. We need to put serious social pressure
on those who do not wish to use the net to thrive for knowledge. So much that being
ignorant becomes a real life disadvantage.
If you do not perceive this threat against humanity, I suggest you watch the
film Idiocracy:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
It's greatly exaggerated, but it rings true in my mind.
The internet as of today is a great fountain of knowledge to those who seek it.
Knowledge is no longer a privilege, but something we can all access and
distribute almost without restraint. So requiring people to educate themselves
is no longer a form of elitism. Cyberspace is much closer to the level playing
field than any other humanly contrived form of society.
Bitte entschuldigt das Englisch, aber ich habe keine Lust das auch noch auf Deutsch zu übersetzen.
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Tue 2 Mar 2010 10:05:08 CET
-----------------------------
Today I have two issues to write about. Why I love Metal and why cyberspace has
to declare war upon stupidity. I will only write about the latter and address
the other issue another day.
On the 10th of February 2010 readwriteweb.com published an article about
Facebook attempting to integrate their login with AIM. A strategy similar
to those of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. The benefits to the users are the
same as result from OpenID, only the privacy implications are much more
troublesome.
Anyway, this is beside the point of this rant. What happened is that this
article became the top hit to the search words "Facebook" and "login" on Google.
And as it turned out, a lot of people do not go to Facebook to login, instead
they enter "Facebook login" in Google and follow the first link.
So within hours the news article was flooded with comments about how much the
new Facebook design sucks and people demanded their login form back.
A couple of hours later RWW posted an article about this phenomenon:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_the_internet_is_hard.php
All in all the article concludes that the users rule the internet and most
users are online illiterates (with that I mean they do not understand or even
attempt to understand it).
In short, stupid people rule the internet and it should thus be designed
taking this into consideration.
And this, in my opinion, is entirely wrong! Interfaces should be designed to
be efficient and fast to learn, as Jef Raskin might have said, to quickly
drift into the realm of the cognitive-unconscious. This is not the same as
appealing to the crowds of stupidity.
We live in a degenerative society where people feel content and righteous about
their ignorance. And acceptance of that has led to a society where everything
that needs learning is considered a waste of time. But cyberspace used to be
all about self-education. A place where people tried to /understand/ through
social networking, not in Facebook, but on UseNet, IRC in mailing lists and
other forums, places for the sharing of knowledge.
Many of us still do use the web in this fashion, but the net grows all the time
and our number does not keep up. The Eternal September still lasts.
My plea is to fight this oncoming age of ignorance. Cyberspace should be a
haven to those who wish to be educated. We need to put serious social pressure
on those who do not wish to use the net to thrive for knowledge. So much that being
ignorant becomes a real life disadvantage.
If you do not perceive this threat against humanity, I suggest you watch the
film Idiocracy:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
It's greatly exaggerated, but it rings true in my mind.
The internet as of today is a great fountain of knowledge to those who seek it.
Knowledge is no longer a privilege, but something we can all access and
distribute almost without restraint. So requiring people to educate themselves
is no longer a form of elitism. Cyberspace is much closer to the level playing
field than any other humanly contrived form of society.