Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article <4A50BB87.8000301 () airwire ie>, Martin List-Petersen 
<martin () airwire ie> writes

> > > Calling it a lame web 2.0 is pretty much off, when it's actually used
> > > for something sensible.
> >
> > I seem to be trying to find the middle ground between members of the
> > public who think "The Internet isn't appropriate because they didn't
> > teach it to me in college 20 years ago" and those who say "Web 2.0 isn't
> > appropriate because they didn't teach it to me in college 5 years ago".
> >
> > Shouldn't we at least be giving it the benefit of the doubt?
>
> Since when has, what has been teached in college ever been a defining
> standard for what is happening on the internet or what the trend in
> computing is ?

It shouldn't be, but I'm guessing this is where much of the conservatism 
is coming from.

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Roland Perry