Tag: digital divide

Most of these posts tagged digital divide result from a bit of a stream of consciousness: every time some new nuance occurs to me I have to write it up before I forgot it. One day I may get around to pulling them all into one document (but I wouldn't hold your breath!).

Should we worry about delivering online content to offline users?

  • September 11, 2008 at 9:16 am

  • In a recent forum* post someone asked how to deliver online content to offline users. An understandable question maybe, but (I believe) a mistaken objective: communicating effectively should be more important than ensuring everyone has the same experience.

Man jailed over accidental Facebook message

  • October 8, 2007 at 7:38 am

  • This is a bit scary: a man who had been ordered not to contact his wife was jailed when he inadvertently sent her a message on Facebook. He claims the sign-up process confused him—in the same way that it confused me—by sending automatic friend requests to people in his existing contacts lists. “I certainly hadn’t [...]

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