Comments for Alex Fram's Weblog http://adfram.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:45:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Google as Big Brother by Daniel Verhoeven http://adfram.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/google-as-big-brother/#comment-10 Daniel Verhoeven Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:45:25 +0000 http://adfram.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-10 Googling has become a verb in our language. This shows the deep impact of Google on our culture and our lives. But Google is not primarily about searching. Google is an information shovel selling adds. As to prominent linguists like Arbib and Lakoff mirror neurons explain the adaptive evolution of the human language faculty and the development of conceptual knowledge (Arbib, 2005; Gallese, Lakoff, 2007). The problem is our easy and accepting relationship with Google. We are geesing at Google and engage with it more and more every day, uncritically unthinkingly. Siva Vaidhyanathan is concerned about the fact that: <blockquote>"....we do not properly understand the nature of the nature of the transaction between us and Google. ...into our relationship with Google we do not grasp that we are not really Google's costumers. Google calls us users, but in fact we are Google's products. Our attention is what Google sells to its customers, which are the advertisers." (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7954812.stm" rel="nofollow">BBC interview</a>)</blockquote> The thesis I want to develop here is that by using Google we stop developing our conceptual knowledge. Googling is not an intelligent information search strategy. But we are always communicating something. In using Google we express our intentions and the cleverness of Google is to incorporate our intentions in its advertising system and giving us the feel we are finding what we are looking for, but we aren't. <a href="http://www.google.com/checkout/m.html" rel="nofollow">This</a> is what Google wants us to look at. See my article <a href="http://2bloggen.org/2009/03/22/googles-one-way-mirror-a-business-model-for-privacy-invasion-by-daniel-verhoeven/" rel="nofollow">Google's one way Miror</a> Googling has become a verb in our language. This shows the deep impact of Google on our culture and our lives. But Google is not primarily about searching. Google is an information shovel selling adds. As to prominent linguists like Arbib and Lakoff mirror neurons explain the adaptive evolution of the human language faculty and the development of conceptual knowledge (Arbib, 2005; Gallese, Lakoff, 2007). The problem is our easy and accepting relationship with Google. We are geesing at Google and engage with it more and more every day, uncritically unthinkingly.

Siva Vaidhyanathan is concerned about the fact that:

“….we do not properly understand the nature of the nature of the transaction between us and Google. …into our relationship with Google we do not grasp that we are not really Google’s costumers. Google calls us users, but in fact we are Google’s products. Our attention is what Google sells to its customers, which are the advertisers.” (BBC interview)

The thesis I want to develop here is that by using Google we stop developing our conceptual knowledge. Googling is not an intelligent information search strategy. But we are always communicating something. In using Google we express our intentions and the cleverness of Google is to incorporate our intentions in its advertising system and giving us the feel we are finding what we are looking for, but we aren’t. This is what Google wants us to look at.

See my article Google’s one way Miror

]]> Comment on Copyright Law by virtualquilter http://adfram.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/copyright-law/#comment-9 virtualquilter Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:21:41 +0000 http://adfram.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-9 Creative people do not need to copy, they are inspired by the sounds they hear, by what they see, and by what they read. Copyright laws will not stop creative people, but do give them the right to sell their creations, and to prevent other people selling copies. Stealing is against the law, and making money by copying is stealing. Perhaps the law should be worded differently, so that people are more concious of the fact that they are stealing someone's income when they break copyright laws. Creative people do not need to copy, they are inspired by the sounds they hear, by what they see, and by what they read. Copyright laws will not stop creative people, but do give them the right to sell their creations, and to prevent other people selling copies.
Stealing is against the law, and making money by copying is stealing.
Perhaps the law should be worded differently, so that people are more concious of the fact that they are stealing someone’s income when they break copyright laws.

]]> Comment on Cyberbullying by KenS http://adfram.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/cyberbullying/#comment-8 KenS Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:20:39 +0000 http://adfram.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-8 Cyberbullying is the biggest threat facing our kids today. This isn’t kids teasing kids anymore – it’s kids trying to destroy each other’s lives. It needs to stop. But nothing will be done until the parents care. There is too much complacency. Parents don’t care until their child is a victim – they need to be just as concerned if their child is the perpetrator or just witnessing it and passing it on. I encourage looking at monitoring software like our PC Pandora so you can see everything your child does online. Know if they are a victim or a bully. If you don’t know, you can’t act. Knowledge is power… ________________________________________ Find out how you can keep your kids safe online at www.pcpandora.com Cyberbullying is the biggest threat facing our kids today. This isn’t kids teasing kids anymore – it’s kids trying to destroy each other’s lives. It needs to stop. But nothing will be done until the parents care. There is too much complacency. Parents don’t care until their child is a victim – they need to be just as concerned if their child is the perpetrator or just witnessing it and passing it on. I encourage looking at monitoring software like our PC Pandora so you can see everything your child does online. Know if they are a victim or a bully. If you don’t know, you can’t act. Knowledge is power…
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Find out how you can keep your kids safe online at http://www.pcpandora.com

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