Comments on: Just because Wired’s shift key is stuck http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/ Technology, Startups, Internet Marketing Thu, 17 May 2012 08:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Arguing with signposts... http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-75 Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:39:39 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-75 <strong>That's capital 'W'</strong> Wired magazine apparently can't keep good copy editors, because they've decided to ditch the capitalization of words like Internet, Web, and 'Net. Their pronouncement has all the smugness of a traditional media company "assuming its role as leader... That’s capital ‘W’
Wired magazine apparently can’t keep good copy editors, because they’ve decided to ditch the capitalization of words like Internet, Web, and ‘Net. Their pronouncement has all the smugness of a traditional media company “assuming its role as leader…

]]> by: ucblockhead http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-74 Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:20:16 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-74 I remember a time when Wired's online version really was different. Back when they gave up on Hotwired was about when they became has-beens. BTW: You stopped pinging blo.gs! I thought you'd just been to busy to blog! I remember a time when Wired’s online version really was different. Back when they gave up on Hotwired was about when they became has-beens.

BTW: You stopped pinging blo.gs! I thought you’d just been to busy to blog!

]]> by: joat http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-72 Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:11:10 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2004/08/17/just-because-wireds-shift-key-is-stuck/#comment-72 There <b>is</b> a difference between internet and Internet. One is generic, denoting any network whose function is to connect other networks. The other is specific, denoting the one planet-wide internet which ties it all together. If Tony Long has a business card with a job title (such as "Journalist"), I insist he use the lower case form (such as "journalist"), thereby "simply giving the medium its proper due". (heh, thanks for the quote Tony!) There is a difference between internet and Internet. One is generic, denoting any network whose function is to connect other networks. The other is specific, denoting the one planet-wide internet which ties it all together.

If Tony Long has a business card with a job title (such as “Journalist”), I insist he use the lower case form (such as “journalist”), thereby “simply giving the medium its proper due”.

(heh, thanks for the quote Tony!)

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