Comments on: Ok Tom…Here You Go http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Leebow http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-7460 Ken Leebow Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:54:48 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/#comment-7460 Um, isn't there an entire SEO industry that gets sites/companies to the top? Web 1.0 - Buyer Beware Web 2.0 - Searcher Beware Um, isn’t there an entire SEO industry that gets sites/companies to the top?

Web 1.0 – Buyer Beware
Web 2.0 – Searcher Beware

]]> By: Weblogg-ed » MLK.org on the Way Down http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-7417 Weblogg-ed » MLK.org on the Way Down Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:44:19 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/#comment-7417 [...] Agree with the tactics or not, isn’t it interesting that the Martin Luther King DOT org site that we’ve been reverse Google Bombing has already slipped from the number one result in the Google search results for Dr. King to fourth or sixth, depending on what browser I use. (Now why would that be?) Don’t get me wrong…I’m glad it’s sinking. But there is something unsettling about this whole process in terms of how, for ourselves and for our kids, do we get our brains around the scope of the potential manipulation of ideas and information on the Web? And I’m sure it’s only going to get more complex. Pity the poor kids who aren’t being taught any of this because it’s too “dangerous.” [...] [...] Agree with the tactics or not, isn’t it interesting that the Martin Luther King DOT org site that we’ve been reverse Google Bombing has already slipped from the number one result in the Google search results for Dr. King to fourth or sixth, depending on what browser I use. (Now why would that be?) Don’t get me wrong…I’m glad it’s sinking. But there is something unsettling about this whole process in terms of how, for ourselves and for our kids, do we get our brains around the scope of the potential manipulation of ideas and information on the Web? And I’m sure it’s only going to get more complex. Pity the poor kids who aren’t being taught any of this because it’s too “dangerous.” [...]

]]> By: Tuttle SVC » Blog Archive » We Are Gardeners and PageRank is our Fertilizer http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-7196 Tuttle SVC » Blog Archive » We Are Gardeners and PageRank is our Fertilizer Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:35:41 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/#comment-7196 [...] Got some help with the anti-martinlutherkingdotorg Google Bombing campaign from Will, Stephen, Chris and others. It’s appreciated. [...] [...] Got some help with the anti-martinlutherkingdotorg Google Bombing campaign from Will, Stephen, Chris and others. It’s appreciated. [...]

]]> By: OpenAcademic :: bringing education to all http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-7195 OpenAcademic :: bringing education to all Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:32:00 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/#comment-7195 [...] Some interesting thoughts about media literacy, google bombing, and white supremacism in a conversation started by Tom Hoffman and moved along by Will Richardson. [...] [...] Some interesting thoughts about media literacy, google bombing, and white supremacism in a conversation started by Tom Hoffman and moved along by Will Richardson. [...]

]]> By: Terry Elliott http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/comment-page-1/#comment-7188 Terry Elliott Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:11:50 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/ok-tomhere-you-go/#comment-7188 I have problems as well with the Google Bombing of this website of vitriol and hate. I commented at Tom's site to the effect that while his response while admirable begs the question: how do we honestly engage "information" of this sort? Is the notion of a marketplace of ideas dead and replaced with page rank as a democratic value? Can one have a conversation of any reasoned variety with this sort? If we remain silent, do we tacitly give them leave for further evil? Is google bombing a form of shouting down our enemies rather than coming up with less disingenuous ways to creatively engage them. I think we all know the answer to the question, "Why bother?" If anyone needs to know the answer to that question, just read Dave Neiwert's web site "Orcinus" and be shocked by how close some of our citizenry are to adopting an "eliminationist rhetoric" (think of Ann Coulter's demonization of liberals increased exponentially). Once again, thanks for bringing up the topic and providing the forum. I have problems as well with the Google Bombing of this website of vitriol and hate. I commented at Tom’s site to the effect that while his response while admirable begs the question: how do we honestly engage “information” of this sort? Is the notion of a marketplace of ideas dead and replaced with page rank as a democratic value? Can one have a conversation of any reasoned variety with this sort? If we remain silent, do we tacitly give them leave for further evil? Is google bombing a form of shouting down our enemies rather than coming up with less disingenuous ways to creatively engage them. I think we all know the answer to the question, “Why bother?” If anyone needs to know the answer to that question, just read Dave Neiwert’s web site “Orcinus” and be shocked by how close some of our citizenry are to adopting an “eliminationist rhetoric” (think of Ann Coulter’s demonization of liberals increased exponentially).

Once again, thanks for bringing up the topic and providing the forum.

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