In Lesson 1 we learned that most of Blonde hadn’t heard of Star wars kid and thus failed the internets.
Consequently Lesson 2 was the fact that the Internet is something that is either won or failed.
Lesson 3 is nsfw = ‘not safe for work’ as it may become relevant in the very near future if you start looking round xchan boards.
So commences Lesson 4.
What is the most important story on the tubes
(the tubes you say? don’t tell me … Lesson 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes )
today? Civilian casualties in Gaza, the election of the first black American president? No its whether you are pro or anti Boxxy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/20/internet
Why is any of this important? (I’m assuming you read the link). Not exactly sure but it does cover aspects such as privacy, truly viral memes, the kind of culture that actually exists on the internet (as opposed to one that passively accepts advertising or the initiatives of companies and organisations), and that if you piss off the right demographic they will DDOS (god! you people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack ) a site they consider to be their home on the web and hunt you down for your personal details to threaten and black mail you. I’m sure there are lessons in there that affect our business if we have the wit to spot them.
Next week Lesson 6: TLDR.
Further reading
http://boxxystory.blogspot.com/
and the offending videos
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VcydqSpYN00