Quotablestag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//112008-03-15T21:33:51ZMovable Type 3.34life's purposetag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52172008-03-15T21:32:45Z2008-03-15T21:33:51Z"People spend their work years trying to be successful and their retirement years trying to be relevant." -- director of philanthropy, REI...zephoria
-- director of philanthropy, REI]]>
companies as toddlerstag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52112008-03-04T07:11:08Z2008-03-04T07:12:21Z"Companies aren't charities. They're businesses. It doesn't matter why they're offering an unacceptable product -- all that matters is that the product is unacceptable. Companies aren't five-year-olds bringing their fingerpaintings home from kindergarten. We don't have to put on a...zephoria
-- Cory Doctorow]]>
approach to kids' safetytag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52322008-02-21T00:08:06Z2008-04-21T00:08:55Z"We need to think of our kids less as victims and more as participants." -- Anne Collier...zephoria
-- Anne Collier]]>
language parsingtag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52032008-02-17T05:27:58Z2008-02-17T05:28:57Z"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a...zephoria
-- languagehat (Tx Hannah)]]>
theory vs. practicetag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52022008-02-17T00:21:38Z2008-02-17T00:23:15Z"They didn't care that they'd seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn't work in theory." -- Clay Shirky at 2007 Supernova...zephoria
-- Clay Shirky at 2007 Supernova]]>
"identity crash"tag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51432007-10-01T07:35:20Z2007-10-01T07:38:02Z"Identity crash: Sudden and catastrophic collapse of an individual's ability to keep all the threads of his or her online identity straight when the individual joins one too many social networks. Example: I was ok keeping up with Facebook, Flickr,...zephoria
I was ok keeping up with Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace, but after throwing lawlink, Last.fm, and Orkut into the mix, I had a total identity crash and forgot what went where."
-- Urban Dictionary (tx Becky)]]>
"dictionary dancing"tag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51382007-09-17T22:34:23Z2007-09-17T22:36:01Z"Won for one, too for two, free for three, for for four, hive for five... and so on... This is what they called 'dictionary dancing'." -- Fiona Romeo, explaining the battle between young users and Club Penguin over the ban...zephoria
-- Fiona Romeo, explaining the battle between young users and Club Penguin over the ban of numbers]]>
friendship on SNStag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51372007-09-15T05:21:19Z2007-10-01T07:37:40ZThere's some deep part of your brain that instinctively wants to make connections with other human beings. Even when you do something as superficial as click a button on a website to confirm that somebody you've already known for ten...zephoria
-- Charles Miller, "On Social Networks" (Sept 14, 2007)]]>
definition of lulworthtag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51362007-09-14T09:13:44Z2007-09-14T09:16:47Z"LULWORTH (n.) - Measure of conversation. A lulworth defines the amount of the length, loudness and embarrassment of a statement you make when everyone else in the room unaccountably stops talking at the same time." -- Douglas Adams and John...zephoria
-- Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff (tx to confused of calcutta)]]>
freedomtag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51342007-09-13T18:26:32Z2007-09-13T18:30:27Z"There's more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it... We were a society dying, said...zephoria
-- from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, 24-25]]>
on being a homosexualtag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51282007-09-06T03:14:21Z2007-09-06T03:19:16Z"I still see homosexuality as a narrative of urban adventure, a chance to cross not only sex barriers but class and age barriers, while breaking a few laws in the process—and all for the sake of pleasure. If not, I...zephoria
-- Bruce Benderson, Village Voice
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youth and researchtag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51212007-08-14T19:00:34Z2007-08-14T19:02:16Z"Though students clearly have an avid use of MySpace and YouTube, this does not mean college–aged students are natural–born researchers." -- Alison Head, "Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?"...zephoria
-- Alison Head, "Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?"]]>
fear of childrentag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51172007-08-11T10:17:50Z2007-08-11T10:19:29Z"You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves." --...zephoria
-- John Perry Barlow, 8 Feb 1996 in "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"]]>
censorshiptag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51122007-08-10T02:45:28Z2007-08-10T02:46:17Z"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore...zephoria
-- John Gilmore]]>
materialism vs. connectionstag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51102007-08-02T00:53:43Z2007-08-02T00:58:26Z"In my casual observation MySpace seems to be all about 'I am what I make/what I like' and Facebook is more 'I am who I know/what I do.'" -- David Sturtz...zephoria
-- David Sturtz]]>