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l33tminion) wrote2004-09-14 01:09 am
l33tminion) wrote2004-09-14 01:09 am
The Other Side
So, I've crossed over to the dark side (or abandoned it, depending on who you ask) and gotten Mozilla Firefox, which is open source and awesome and far less evil than "Internet Exploiter":
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Today was hard. I woke up too late because I didn't realize the lecture part of Design Nature for Monday had been moved to 9:00 (morning classes are t3h sux0r for sure). The rest of the day was a blur of work.
The evening, however, was very fun. I attended a guest lecture given by Bryan Alexander a professor at Middlebury College and contributor to the book "Smart Mobs". He talked about blogging, Wikis, and other social software, technology revolving around social networks. These ideas have truly revolutionary power. Google and other search engines lend power to bloggers, who use networks of friends to share ideas. Such social software can not only change the way friendships work, but the way information works in general. History can be revitalized. Connections can found. Some of the projects spawned by this revolution are extraordinary. Wikipedia uses the power of Wikis (web pages editable by all users) to create an online encyclopedia where anyone can edit or add to any part of it (I added some information and did a little editing on Olin's entry). Wikipedia is an amazing testament to the creative power of humans using technology, evolving towards the goal of being the complete store of all human knowledge, the ultimate encyclopedia.
Later in the evening, I went to Babson with a bunch of other Oliners on a smoothie run. Yay Babson Bucks on our dining cards!
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Today was hard. I woke up too late because I didn't realize the lecture part of Design Nature for Monday had been moved to 9:00 (morning classes are t3h sux0r for sure). The rest of the day was a blur of work.
The evening, however, was very fun. I attended a guest lecture given by Bryan Alexander a professor at Middlebury College and contributor to the book "Smart Mobs". He talked about blogging, Wikis, and other social software, technology revolving around social networks. These ideas have truly revolutionary power. Google and other search engines lend power to bloggers, who use networks of friends to share ideas. Such social software can not only change the way friendships work, but the way information works in general. History can be revitalized. Connections can found. Some of the projects spawned by this revolution are extraordinary. Wikipedia uses the power of Wikis (web pages editable by all users) to create an online encyclopedia where anyone can edit or add to any part of it (I added some information and did a little editing on Olin's entry). Wikipedia is an amazing testament to the creative power of humans using technology, evolving towards the goal of being the complete store of all human knowledge, the ultimate encyclopedia.
Later in the evening, I went to Babson with a bunch of other Oliners on a smoothie run. Yay Babson Bucks on our dining cards!
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