Technology
Google started out as a graduate project at Stanford University and has grown to almost world-taking-over proportions. Rather than just indexing the words on a site, Google’s pioneering search algorithm rated a page’s authority by how many links it received, thereby tapping into the distributed power of the web. To this day I tell people to “Google it”: this search engine has become part of the lexicon of the Internet forever.
The Good Webizen
A Guide for Creative Webspinning
Attention all sentient beings: the net has revolutionized the way we communicate, but to have a permanent and meaningful existence on the Internet you must become a web citizen, or webizen, by constructively contributing to the world wide web. The good webizen knows how to create and provide useful information on a website, as well as how to filter and consume vast oceans of data from the web.
How to send a message to Mr. Gates
This is an email I wrote to a journalist who got hit with the Blaster worm:
In response to your article “Worms Shouldn’t Break Windows” :