Catshanghai » ITGS http://www.catshanghai.com/blog Shanghai Blog about Culture, Arts and Technology Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 © shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk () shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk() Shanghai Blog about Culture, Arts and Technology shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk No no http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Catshanghai http://www.catshanghai.com/blog 144 144 Defending Wikipedia http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/28/defending-wikipedia/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/28/defending-wikipedia/#comments Mon, 28 May 2007 03:44:24 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/28/defending-wikipedia/ I’ve just been perusing the IBO’s (International Baccalaureate Organisation) forums for news about the IT ethics course I teach. I am a little concerned that this academic community is so dismissive of Wikipedia as a source of information. Therefore, I wrote this post in defense of Wikipedia that I have quoted below:

I am writing from the point of view as an ITGS teacher in Shanghai where Wikipedia is blocked and I regret my students not being able to access material from this community as an initial source of information.

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia is clear that students should always verify the information they use through further research. Jimmy Wales argues that the community tends to correct obvious mistakes within 6 minutes and that entries are frozen when there gross acts of repetive vandalism. Hear this interview on Leo Laporte’s Net@Nite .

There are cases of US judges using Wikipedia as an information source for background. See this Guardian story and there is some debate about the accuracy of Wikipedia’s entries compared with other encyclopedias such as Britannica.

Wikipedia should not be written off just because there are some concerns about certain entries. The onus should go on the student and the researcher to verify the accuracy of information through critical thinking and fact checking. The group editorial process of Wikipedia and other community generated content is a new adventure for sharing information, but it should not be disowned by the academic community just because it is not controlled and mediated by traditional media hierarchies.

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/28/defending-wikipedia/feed/ 0 Social Networks Can Trash Your House http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/17/warning-social-networks-can-trash-your-house/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/17/warning-social-networks-can-trash-your-house/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:42:11 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/17/warning-social-networks-can-trash-your-house/ Critics are going to use these stories to argue that modern technology is being used by teenagers to accelerate society’s moral decline.

Wrecked House supplied by operationeden.blogspot.com

Story 1: Bogus Craigslist Ad Leads to Destruction of a House
Craigslist is a free and popular Internet classified advertising service that was recently abused by a tenant who posted a fake ad in retaliation for being evicted from a house in Tacoma near Seattle.

The ad posted last weekend welcomed people to take for free anything they wanted from the home. It has since been pulled from the site, but not before the residence was stripped of light fixtures, the hot water heater and the kitchen sink.

Neighbors said they saw strangers hauling items away, apparently looking for salvage material.

Even the front door and a vinyl window were pilfered, Raye said.

Source:  Seattle Times

Story 2: Teenager Invited Myspace Friends to Trash Parent’s House.
This is a parent’s nightmare. They come home from holiday to find their teenage daughter has organised a party in their absence causing thousands in cleanup and repair costs.

Up to 200 teenagers from across the country trashed a family house while the parents were away after their daughter advertised a party on MySpace, police said today.

Revellers caused £20,000 of damage to the £230,000 property after the invitation for the Easter Monday celebration was posted on the popular site as a “Skins Unofficial Party” – a reference to the controversial Channel 4 series which featured scenes where a teenage get-together got out of hand.

Partygoers allegedly urinated on the mother’s wedding dress and children’s clothes; stole cash and jewellery; ripped light fittings from the ceiling by swinging on them; stubbed out cigarettes on the carpet; vomited throughout the house and barricaded the back door to prevent neighbours from intervening.

Source: Guardian

Story 3: UK Teenagers are Bullying Teachers With Youtube Videos
On Tuesday, teachers and ministers called for action to halt the use of mobile phones and the Internet to spread embarrassing images of teachers.

Increasing numbers are being humiliated by “obscene” photographs and video clips posted on websites such as YouTube. These include pictures of teachers’ cleavages or taken up their skirts.

There have also been cases involving images of teachers transposed on to pornographic pictures.

Source: Daily Mail

It is easy to blame the Internet for facilitating the damage caused by all this teenage mischief, but is it so different to the pranks carried out by youngsters in earlier eras? It is only the instantaneous ability to share such misbehaviour among so many that sets the digital miscreants apart. Perhaps there is a wider moral decay in process, but I want to look for solutions inside and outside the Internet.

Families, friendship groups and communities need to enjoy quality face to face social time together whether it is eating dinner or throwing a frisbee around a park. We probably spend too much of our lives in front of a screen for our own good, but it is almost unavoidable. This means we also need to look at ways that technology can be managed and harnessed to remedy and even prevent the harmful effects of bogus ads, mischievous mass party invitations and youtube abuse.

The long term answer does not lie in banning mobile phones and social networking sites from schools in the hope that this problem goes away. We need to learn from successful communities such as Wikipedia that have managed to create a committed core of users who enforce a culture promoting respect and integrity while rejecting anti social behaviour. For example, if you vandalise a Wikipedia page, the community is likely to correct the entry in minutes. If the problem persists then Wikipedia will block that page for a couple of days and ban the user as a last resort. The point is that community members need to share responsibility for creatively policing a site as well as generating its content.

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/17/warning-social-networks-can-trash-your-house/feed/ 0 Should Blogs Censor Themselves? http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/10/should-blogs-censor-themselves/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/10/should-blogs-censor-themselves/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:41:22 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/10/should-blogs-censor-themselves/ The Internet may seem like a paradise for free speech, but the recent spate of online harassment and death threats targeted at blogger Kathy Sierra has generated some intense soul searching and discussion among the neterati about the action that should be taken, if any to keep the Internet free of such abuse.

Image from Kathy Sierra's Headrush BlogTim O’Reilly has published the following draft code of conduct for bloggers to engage in self censorship:

We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation, but frankness does not have to mean lack of civility. We present this Blogger Code of Conduct in hopes that it helps create a culture that encourages both personal expression and constructive conversation.

1. We take responsibility for our own words and for the comments we allow on our blog.
We are committed to the “Civility Enforced” standard: we will not post unacceptable content, and we’ll delete comments that contain it. We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked to that: – is being used to abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others – is libelous, knowingly false, ad-hominem, or misrepresents another person, – infringes upon a copyright or trademark – violates an obligation of confidentiality – violates the privacy of others We define and determine what is “unacceptable content” on a case-by-case basis, and our definitions are not limited to this list. If we delete a comment or link, we will say so and explain why. [We reserve the right to change these standards at any time with no notice.

2. We won’t say anything online that we wouldn’t say in person.

3. We connect privately before we respond publicly.
When we encounter conflicts and misrepresentation in the blogosphere, we make every effort to talk privately and directly to the person(s) involved–or find an intermediary who can do so–before we publish any posts or comments about the issue.

4. When we believe someone is unfairly attacking another, we take action.
When someone who is publishing comments or blog postings that are offensive, we’ll tell them so (privately, if possible–see above) and ask them to publicly make amends. If those published comments could be construed as a threat, and the perpetrator doesn’t withdraw them and apologize, we will cooperate with law enforcement to protect the target of the threat.

5. We do not allow anonymous comments.
We require commenters to supply a valid email address before they can post, though we allow commenters to identify themselves with an alias, rather than their real name.

6. We ignore the trolls.
We prefer not to respond to nasty comments about us or our blog, as long as they don’t veer into abuse or libel. We believe that feeding the trolls only encourages them–”Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it.” Ignoring public attacks is often the best way to contain them.

This code of conduct provides a practical set of guidelines giving clear, ethical boundaries for acceptable behaviour within blogs. It is better for this initiative to come up from the grassroots community rather than being imposed by governments. Bloggers understand the issue and they can give leadership that the rest of the community can accept without feeling that their free speech is being taken away. It clears up the ethical uncertainty that may lead many bloggers to refrain from deleting abusive comments in case they feel they are trampling on someone else’s free speech. The argument against deleting comments is feeble in the first place. If deleting comments was such a problem, you could accuse spam filters of undermining free speech and I do not remember the last time I could leave an anonymous comment on a blog or forum.

The bloggers who sign up to this code of conduct are already aware of the issues, which is a good sign that they are already behaving ethically. Unless ISPs, hosting companies and blogging sites embrace the code of conduct as part of their terms and conditions then there is nothing to stop someone from setting up a blog that completely ignores these guidelines.

Excluding anonymity may seem the only way to force people to take responsibility for their comments within blogs. I agree with this for the most part, but there are exceptional occasions when it is sensible to withhold your identity. What happens if your government restricts free speech by persecuting those who wash the government’s dirty laundry in public? What happens to the whistleblower who tells the world that their employer is behaving in an irresponsible or unethical way? Does the refusal to allow anonymity extend to all forums and circumstances even when this may jeopardise the safety of the commenter? Steve Gibson of Security Now argues that you can not have free speech unless you have anonymity, but that would make it easy to bully and abuse without being held accountable.

There is no clarity on the issue of deep linking to other people’s content from your own blog or site. While it is not strictly stealing content, there is some concern that it is rude to make other people carry the bandwidth cost for images, videos or multimedia that you are linking to. A link is only a link and non commercial websites must accept a certain amount of recipricocity of deep linking between each other’s content. Also, deep linking was the engine that drove Youtube videos onto Myspace sites and into Google’s portfolio. Deep linking is the icing that makes blog posts much more than bland text and it is an important tool to make content accessible and exciting. There should be an implicit understanding that blogs should be given fair use to deep link, unless the content holder explicitly requests that it is not used in this way. Also, it is courteous for bloggers to acknowledge the source. That is something I have not done in the past, but I will from now on.

While this code of conduct is not perfect, it provides a useful reference point in many places especially schools where blogs and social networks are gaining traction as a wonderful resource for expression, reflection and communication. Learning communities can use this guideline to create a culture that draws a clear line in the sand between acceptable and non acceptable free speech so that bullying and abuse can be prevented before they even begin.

Links:
grc.com,
headrush.typepad.com,
newsimg.bbc.co.uk

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/04/10/should-blogs-censor-themselves/feed/ 1 BBC Suspends Net Learning Project http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/bbc-suspends-net-learning-project/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/bbc-suspends-net-learning-project/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:01:49 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/bbc-suspends-net-learning-project/ The BBC is going to suspend its Jam edcuation platform after complaints to the European Commission that the service is having an adverse effect on small software suppliers. Dominic Savage of the British Edcuation Software Association expressed the industry’s concern that the BBC was duplicating their activity. Jam was providing Internet learning resources to support the UK National Curriculum for children aged 5 to 16. The BBC has invested £150 million in the project over 5 years.

I get really good web news coverage from Techcrunch, but Michael Arrington seems to have a pathalogical distrust of public sector involvement in the media. He does not like the fact that the BBC is so reliant on a government mandated license fee, but it has an independent voice and produces an excellent programme of content so I wrote the following comment in support of the BBC’s agenda.

The BBC has also done an amazing amount of good for education by offering very high quality content and learning programmes for no cost (license fees excepted). You have to remember that British government schools have very limited funds and there is a big digital divide in the UK so anything that can be done to increase access to excellent learning resources should be welcome.

I agree with earlier comments that safe guards should have been setup by the UK Government to ensure that the services and content are distinct to avoid hurting other suppliers, but it is up to the industry to provide affordable products and resources that are compelling for schools and parents to buy as an alternative to the BBC.

There have been comments (on Techcrunch) that the BBC is confused about its operational boundaries and strategic direction. I see no such confusion. The BBC is making a transition from a public sector state subsidised broadcaster into a commercial and global independent media empire, distributing high quality content through every available channel and format.

I am looking forward to the day that I can subscribe to the IPlayer service and stream recently broadcast tv shows such as Little Britain or Newsnight. I am not asking the British license fee payer to foot the bill for my viewing. I will happily do that myself.

Links:
newsimg.bbc.co.uk,
techcrunch.com
]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/bbc-suspends-net-learning-project/feed/ 2 New York Times Article on the Future of Google Privacy http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/new-york-times-article-on-the-future-of-google-privacy/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/new-york-times-article-on-the-future-of-google-privacy/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:45:25 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/new-york-times-article-on-the-future-of-google-privacy/ I have just come across this article on the New York Times Reader about Google privacy issues that I blogged about on Sunday. Here is my response that was written using the reader’s annotation tool. It would be good if you could post annotations straight to blogs, but that feature is not yet supported.

Google Changes Policy on Search Records
By MIGUEL HELFT MAR. 14, 2007 – SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 — Web search companies collect records of the searches people conduct, a fact that has long sparked fears among privacy advocates and some Internet users that this valuable personal data could be misused.
Now Google is taking a step to ease those concerns. The company keeps logs of all searches, along with digital identifiers linking them to specific computers and Internet browsers. It said on Wednesday that it would start to make those logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months. Under current practices, the company keeps the logs indefinitely.

Excerpt from New York Times Article: Google Changes Policy on Search Records

Google’s ethical “Don’t Be Evil” mission statement suggests they do not intend to misuse all the information they are collecting about Internet users’ web searching habits. However, the fact that this data exists poses all sorts of privacy issues.

The US Government has tried and failed to subpoena search records as part of the Patriot Act, but who can say that Washington will not try again and succeed.

We trust Google’s security will prevent data being published accidentally, but it only takes one breach for all your data to go out in the wild.

Anonymity for legacy data is great, but it does not prevent other people from identifying you. Last year, AOL published its search records, witholding the identity of its customers. (See this article) It didn’t take long for the New York Times to uncover the identity of Thelma Arnold, a 62 year old woman from Georgia. (See this article).

Google provides a wonderful array of search, marketing and information services. They are a progressive and dynamic company with a brilliant team who are changing culture in unimaginable ways and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. This story raises a number of concerns about the privacy of our personal data. We can happily put confidential information about ourselves on the Internet knowing that there is some risk this could be seen by prying eyes or even used against us. As long as we know about these risks and take sensible safeguards then we shouldn’t let this sort of thing keep us awake at night.

Losing our privacy may be a price that we all have to pay for bringing all human knowledge together in a searchable format.

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/15/new-york-times-article-on-the-future-of-google-privacy/feed/ 2 Netcasts To Go http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:37:04 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/ Podcasts or netcasts are wonderful and are totally free. If you download enough of them, it becomes like having your own personal talk radio station. I subscribe to a whole slew of RSS feeds pushing audio and video downloads into my computer that keep me informed about the world of technology and the world in general. I have never been so well informed and I listen to them in the bathroom when I get up, in the evening when I walk home and at night when I’m getting ready to go to bed. I also play them from time to time during my lessons as a learning resource.

You need to be a little nerdy to get netcasts on to your MP3 player, although Itunes users can easily find netcasts on the Itunes store and sync them onto their Ipods. Otherwise, you need to find the RSS feed, which is an XML file containing details about all the files that need to be downloaded. Then you need to copy the downloaded file onto your portable media player. I have been happily using Ipodder on my Ubuntu computer to do this, but it is not quite as user friendly as Itunes.

Here are some of my favourite netcasts. The http addresses are the RSS feeds you need to subscribe to each netcast. Please note the technology bias and all the video files are in the mp4 format for Ipods. You will also need a media player or computer that can display this type of video file.

BBC Newsnight Video Podcast
Video extracts from late night BBC news programme.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/rss.xml

BBC Radio Newspod
Daily summary of BBC audio radio news stories from Radio 1,2,4,5
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radionews/bbcradionewspod/rss.xml

BBC Ten O’Clock News
Weekly video summary of BBC Ten O’Clock News.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc1/tenoclocknews/rss.xml

Boag World
Weekly audio netcast about web design with a touch of sarcastic humour
http://feeds.feedburner.com/boagworldpodcast

CNET Buzz Out Loud
Daily light hearted American discussion show about technology news.
http://www.cnet.com/i/pod/cnet_buzz.xml

CNET News
Daily news bulletin from CNET about technology issues.
http://news.com.com/html/ne/podcasts/daily_podcast.xml?tag=txt

Command N
Amber MacArthur’s weekly video podcast about cool websites, technology tips and news
http://feeds.feedburner.com/command-n/mpeg4

Cranky Geeks
Weekly video panel show hosted by infmaous cynical blogger, John C Dvorak. With a range of guests, he discusses a range of technology news stories and generally berates the state of the modern world.
http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/crankygeeks/cg.ipod.xml

Digital Life TV
Twice a week geek video podcast covering the latest in hardware, gadgets, software and Internet issues.
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/DLTVvidcast.xml

BBC Digital Planet
Weekly audio podcast from BBC World Service about global technology trends and issues.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/worldservice/digitalplanet/rss.xml

Geek Brief TV
Daily video podcast about gadgets and technology news.
http://geekbrief.podshow.com/feed.xml

Lab Rats
Weekly video podcast introducing geeky technology topics such as replacing a hard drive in an entertaining and accessible manner
http://www.labrats.tv/feed.xml

Mark Kermode Weekly Film Reviews
He is the Jimi Hendrix of film reviews.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/fivelive/markkermodesfilmreviews/rss.xml

PRI The World
Joint weekly audio production between the BBC and American PBS covering technology, science and environmental issues
http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml

Radio Leo
Selection of excellent technology audio netcasts from Leo Laporte’s TWIT network.
http://leoville.tv/podcasts/leo.xml

SlashDot Review
Daily ten minute review of Digg, Reddit and SlashDot technology stories.
http://content.downloadradio.org/sdr-rss.xml

This Week In Media
Weekly review of media stories and issues with a technology spin.
http://thisweekinmedia.libsyn.com/rss

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/feed/ 3 Diigo: Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/06/social-annotation-seamless-integration-of-social-bookmarking-web-highlighter-sticky-note-clipping/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/06/social-annotation-seamless-integration-of-social-bookmarking-web-highlighter-sticky-note-clipping/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:13:19 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/06/social-annotation-seamless-integration-of-social-bookmarking-web-highlighter-sticky-note-clipping/ I have just heard about Diigo, which is another bookmarking, tagging and annotation tool. It has more functionality than stickis, but the interface is not as good so the elegant pop-up overlays do not appear when you visit a tagged page. Diigo does a little more than stickis by offering automatic clip captures, but overall you need more clicks and screens to post to blogs and that is what I want from these tagging tools.

About:
diigo.com,
stickis.com
]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/06/social-annotation-seamless-integration-of-social-bookmarking-web-highlighter-sticky-note-clipping/feed/ 0 The Future of Web Ads Is in Britain – New York Times http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/the-future-of-web-ads-is-in-britain-new-york-times/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/the-future-of-web-ads-is-in-britain-new-york-times/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:08:05 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/the-future-of-web-ads-is-in-britain-new-york-times/ This story shows just how much the UK has changed since I left in 2004.

Before the UK was behind the US in terms of broadband penetration and the percentage of advertising being spent online. By 2005 this had changed, because 8 percent of British advertising revenue was spent online compared with 4.6 percent in the US. Similarly, 47.4 percent of British households had broadband compared with 43.9 percent in the US.

The article goes on to say that British advertising budgets are not rising quickly and that old media such as television are losing out. The reasons that Internet marketing is so successful is that the market in the UK operates at a national level, which makes it easier to track the success of a campaign, advertisers have embraced new media and the audience spends 23 hours a week in front of their computers compared with 14 hours a week in the US.

If you ever watched The Salon or Big Brother then you would know why Brits spend more time on their computers compared with watching television.

About:
nytimes.com
]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/the-future-of-web-ads-is-in-britain-new-york-times/feed/ 0 UN warns on password ‘explosion’ (BBC) http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/un-warns-on-password-explosion-bbc/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/un-warns-on-password-explosion-bbc/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:56:42 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/un-warns-on-password-explosion-bbc/ This BBC story suggests cites a UN report that warns that many web users are at risk of identity theft because they are reusing passwords for many different login accounts.

The trouble for casual users is that you need to think like a cryptographer to create multiple complex passwords that are impossible to crack and easy to remember at the same time. They do make a suggestion that computer systems need a way to verify users’ identity that is not based on passwords.

Maybe future website verification will be based on biometric methods such as voice recognition or retina scanning.

About:
newsimg.bbc.co.uk
]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/un-warns-on-password-explosion-bbc/feed/ 0 Firefox OS http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/firefox-os/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/firefox-os/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:52:19 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2006/12/05/firefox-os/
Firefox Screenshot
This weekend I have been busy customising firefox by installing extensions, effectively turning it into a stripped down version of an operating system. Three quarters of my computer needs can now be accessed directly from the browser. Here is a list of extensions I added:
  • Performancing for writing blog entries
  • Fotofox for viewing and uploading pictures to Photosharing sites
  • Gmail space for using Google mail for Internet file storage
  • Translator to read Chinese websites
  • Stickis and Del.icio.us to tag, annotate and bookmark websites
  • Fireftp to upload to and manage my webspace
Fotofox and fireftp do not seem to work behind the proxy on my school’s network. I think the firewall is blocking the ports they use, but the other plugins work very well. The proliferation of web services, applications and content management mean that you can perform all your other computing tasks using a browser. Thinkfree, Zoho and Google offer online office applications. Odeo allow you to record podcasts on the browser. Eyespot even allows you to edit video from a web browser. The launch of Vista (next generation Window OS) is a big deal for Microsoft and it will be a while before enterprises ditch the OS and applications running on the client. Even they recognise that more and more of our computing needs will be met when we are on the Internet using our browsers. So Microsoft are joining the bandwagon of webservices by launching Office Live.

It’s all changing very quickly, which means that I am bound to add even more plug-ins and web services to tempt me away from applications running on the client. Everyday, my firefox browser is behaving more and more like an OS and I don’t even have to pay for it.

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