Comments on: It’s Just People Talking

By: Jens Tee

Jens Tee — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:59:06 +0000

good site, greetings from Germany

Jens Tee

By: Fahad

Fahad — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:37:48 +0000

People has always desired to waste time or infact ways of entertainment. Internet is one of those.

By: Qualities of a Writer « Bold Words

Qualities of a Writer « Bold Words — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:36:26 +0000

[...] Qualities of a Writer June 8, 2007 Filed under: Writing — Britt @ 7:36 am Good books are hard to find. I tend to split my reading between the “classics” and contemporary writing. And a post on Josh Porter’s Bokardo highlighted an author I consider a classic, Douglas Adams. A striking aspect of Adams’ piece on “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet” is the applicability almost 10 years after the fact: I expect that history will show ‘normal’ mainstream twentieth century media to be the aberration in all this. ‘Please, miss, you mean they could only just sit there and watch? They couldn’t do anything? Didn’t everybody feel terribly isolated or alienated or ignored?’ [...]

By: Recovering Technophile » Blog Archive » Information Processing

Recovering Technophile » Blog Archive » Information Processing — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:46:06 +0000

[...] Thanks to Joshua for pointing to this quote from Douglas Adams (author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. [...]

By: Adam Audette

Adam Audette — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:46:26 +0000

I always get a kick out of people who say, “i hate ebay!” or something similar. That’s like saying you hate people buying and selling stuff. The Internet is just people doing what people do, and using a newer medium to do it.

great find!

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:43:21 +0000

It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.

Excellent point by Mr. Adams. I really miss that guy but was fortunate enough to meet him about 12 years ago. He would really get a kick out of Web 2.0.

By: heri

heri — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:58:04 +0000

This is so true. Although one of my friend, a notorious art blogger, is being sued because he wrote his opinion. apparently, the plaintiff is from the newspaper era and thinks everything on the internet should be true … because it’s written words. so he ordered his lawyers to harass the blogger.

http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/04/call-to-bloggers-and-everyone-involved.html

this has turned into a permanent injunction since then.

By: Ben Saunders

Ben Saunders — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:26:23 +0000

Amazing. I wonder how long it’ll be before Douglas Adams’ stuff is no longer relevant. ‘Decades’ seems like a dead cert, at least - given that he clearly understood Twitter better than I do eight years ago. A century?