[115701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using twitter as an outage notification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jul 5 12:59:29 2009
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:57:37 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A50BB87.8000301@airwire.ie>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
--
Roland Perry
