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Coping with the mischief of Internet trolls

8 Feb 2012

As long as there have been bridges, trolls have hidden beneath them. Same for the Internet. As long as there have been message boards, discussion groups, and comment strings, there have been "trolls" - people who, under cover of Web anonymity, post bullying, lewd, or off-point comments, disrupting and demeaning the whole enterprise.

The future of the Internet – it’s all jerks and bullies [Infographic]

5 Feb 2012

There’s a common perception about conversation on the web that at some point regardless of how well the conversation may have started off will devolve into seeing who can hit Godwin’s Law of The USENET; which was arrived at by Mike Godwin and states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving [...] The future of the Internet – it’s all jerks and bullies ...

Facebook IPO: No, It’s Not Groundhog Day for the Bubble

2 Feb 2012

Facebook’s $5 billion IPO is not the biggest of all time, but it’s up there, which means it’s faced with the same gimlet eye as every other big Internet public offering. The word “bubble� has been floated. That’s unfortunate since there is nothing bubble-like about Facebook.