The Rhetoric of Reputation

Read Story Here

This post on Slashdot is about somebody who actually SUED somebody for offering neutral feedback on ebay. Talk about bad online etiquette...

My RSS feed picked up this Slashdot Post about somebody from AT&T claiming that the internet will reach maximum capacity in 2010.

1. Original sentence:
"Michelle Malkin, a political author/ columnist discusses issues within these topics of illegal immigration and the border fence."

Problem: Vague, wordiness

Corrected Sentence: "Michelle Malkin, a political author and columnist discusses issues of naturalization, the Dream Act and the border fence. These topics are all linked to the broad subject of illegal immigration."

2. Original Sentence: "However, his publications include the founding of gamepolitics.com, the most prominent website concerning the issues of gaming and government today."

Problem: Unclear meaning

This article from Wired Magazine about the puts a new spin on the idea of using technology to establish a reputation for a person and an industry. After the Eliot Spitzer scandal, sex workers are using technology to speak out across the country.

It seems like everything we talk about in class (copyright violation, the internet, facebook, and "sticking it to the man") is wrapped up into this one simple argument about an online video game.

Click here for the story about Scrabulous.

I thought this article was pretty interesting, considering the discussion we had today in class. It's just a quick blurb about how Myspace is considering free music downloads. It's interesting to me because I did my paper about internet filtering, which is caused in part by illegal music downloads.

Does anybody else think there might be a correlation between Myspace users and the music they listen to, versus those on Facebook? This was something that I hadn't thought about until I saw this article.

Did anybody see the anti-Scientology rally today? That, my friends, is the power of the internet.

Record your memories online here.

I just ran across an article about somebody who was mistakenly involved in the conflict between the Church of Scientology and this "Anonymous" group. Turns out he was mistaken for a pro-Scientology hacker :-\