Comments on: The Emperor Has No Clothes http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/23/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/ Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:12:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: rutherford http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/23/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 rutherford Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:43:19 +0000 http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/23/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/#comment-1096 To say the issue is unimportant is subjective - for the tens/hundreds of thousands of slackers it wasn't. The point is it's the medium that is weak - when faced with a barrage of criticism via the internet, it's too easy simply to turn it off and dismiss it as a bunch of cranksters. No one can hear you scream here and that's a problem digital has yet to get around. For an internet campaign to be effective it needs channelled in a specific way and an element of damage control on the more esoteric contributors. There needs to be some kind of quality control button. We see the basic development of this with the up vote in social apps - the Facebook like, the Twitter retweet. Such features are a crude metric for slacktivism - where is the next level of contribution? To say the issue is unimportant is subjective – for the tens/hundreds of thousands of slackers it wasn’t.

The point is it’s the medium that is weak – when faced with a barrage of criticism via the internet, it’s too easy simply to turn it off and dismiss it as a bunch of cranksters.

No one can hear you scream here and that’s a problem digital has yet to get around. For an internet campaign to be effective it needs channelled in a specific way and an element of damage control on the more esoteric contributors.

There needs to be some kind of quality control button.

We see the basic development of this with the up vote in social apps – the Facebook like, the Twitter retweet. Such features are a crude metric for slacktivism – where is the next level of contribution?

]]> By: Rolando http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/23/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/comment-page-1/#comment-1088 Rolando Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:42:42 +0000 http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/2009/11/23/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/#comment-1088 I kinda think you're missing the point. If it was something important, all that attention would have translated into real action. But it was just Football. Nobody cares about football a couple days later. If an earthquake hits or a war breaks out, you're going to be grateful for those blaggers. Until then, don't be surprised if notional populist initiatives fizzle out on their own. This is normal and typical mass human behavior and it has nothing to do with the medium of the internet itself. I kinda think you’re missing the point. If it was something important, all that attention would have translated into real action. But it was just Football. Nobody cares about football a couple days later. If an earthquake hits or a war breaks out, you’re going to be grateful for those blaggers. Until then, don’t be surprised if notional populist initiatives fizzle out on their own. This is normal and typical mass human behavior and it has nothing to do with the medium of the internet itself.

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