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Oct. 10th, 2008 04:23 pm"This is a horrible place full of lies, hate, pornography and a billion apostrophes, all in the wrong place."
- Jeremy Clarkson defines the Internet
- Jeremy Clarkson defines the Internet
Gotta tag 'em all
Sep. 30th, 2006 08:35 pmMy first ever LJ posting, 6 March 2004. Contains all the essential elements: travel, cats, mind-altering drugs. I have corrected a spelling error and changed the ikon to an appropriate one.
Working class Internet use in the UK
Aug. 1st, 2005 11:55 pmRecent discussions about whether online fans are entirely middle class - since only the middle class would have Internet access - prompted me to go rummaging for statistics on the socio-economic status of British net.users. The most recent government info online dates back to 2001, but gives us something to be going on with:
All adults - 51% had used the Internet
Professional - 78%
Intermediate - 65%
Skilled non-manual - 52%
Skilled manual - 37%
Partly skilled - 33%
Unskilled - 27%
It's not surprising that the more bucks you have, the more likely you are to have had net.access, and I feel sure the middle class dominates both the net and online fandom. However, it's immediately obvious that you don't have to be middle class to have Internet access, which explodes that belief straight away. (What these figures don't tell us is how much time each group is able to get online - for instance, what proportion of the less well-off have home access, and how many have easy access at work or through school.)
ETA: Very similar patterns in the US (see comment) and Australia (behind the cut). I'd say the middle-class-only claim is thoroughly squashed by the evidence.
( Australian Internet users... )
My next question is: how much of the iceberg is below the water? That is, how much of fandom takes place offline?
All adults - 51% had used the Internet
Professional - 78%
Intermediate - 65%
Skilled non-manual - 52%
Skilled manual - 37%
Partly skilled - 33%
Unskilled - 27%
It's not surprising that the more bucks you have, the more likely you are to have had net.access, and I feel sure the middle class dominates both the net and online fandom. However, it's immediately obvious that you don't have to be middle class to have Internet access, which explodes that belief straight away. (What these figures don't tell us is how much time each group is able to get online - for instance, what proportion of the less well-off have home access, and how many have easy access at work or through school.)
ETA: Very similar patterns in the US (see comment) and Australia (behind the cut). I'd say the middle-class-only claim is thoroughly squashed by the evidence.
( Australian Internet users... )My next question is: how much of the iceberg is below the water? That is, how much of fandom takes place offline?
Googles the mind
Apr. 17th, 2004 07:19 amYou know Google's planned free mail service? They plan to read your mail and attach relevant ads. They won't be reading mine.
Bye Bye Pacific Internet
Apr. 7th, 2004 11:13 pmAs you know, I've dropped my korman@zip.com.au email address in favour of korman@spamcop.net. That's because my vanity domain katesfeminist.info went down, and my ISP, Pacific (who ate Zip aka Zipworld), did fuck-all to fix the problem.
I only realised the domain had died when we got back from the US; I wrote to them and got a largely incomprehensible email pointing out that the domain had originally been registered with Web City (who I nearly took to a consumer tribunal for promising Web hosting they didn't provide, but that's another story) and that it had expired but also wouldn't expire for another year. I wrote back pointing out that I'd transferred the domain to them, so were they able to fix this, or re-register it for me? Silence. Nada. No reply at all. In the meantime, my Ebay emails were vanishing since I'd set them up to go to ebay@katefeminist.info (in an effort to avoid sellers assuming I wanted my purchases sent to Australia) - I had to contact all my buyers and apologise.
So I emailed Pacific again asking for some action. Silence. Nada. No reply at all. I joined another ISP and moved all my crap over there, but I didn't get around to telling Pacific to go jump until today - when I received my monthly bill, including a $10 fee for the domain they can't be bothered to maintain. I sent 'em a rocket, and got back a form email, sorrowing that I was leaving them and asking me to let them know if there was anything they'd done wrong. Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce. I bet they charge me another $10.
I don't think I'll be getting another vanity domain.
I only realised the domain had died when we got back from the US; I wrote to them and got a largely incomprehensible email pointing out that the domain had originally been registered with Web City (who I nearly took to a consumer tribunal for promising Web hosting they didn't provide, but that's another story) and that it had expired but also wouldn't expire for another year. I wrote back pointing out that I'd transferred the domain to them, so were they able to fix this, or re-register it for me? Silence. Nada. No reply at all. In the meantime, my Ebay emails were vanishing since I'd set them up to go to ebay@katefeminist.info (in an effort to avoid sellers assuming I wanted my purchases sent to Australia) - I had to contact all my buyers and apologise.
So I emailed Pacific again asking for some action. Silence. Nada. No reply at all. I joined another ISP and moved all my crap over there, but I didn't get around to telling Pacific to go jump until today - when I received my monthly bill, including a $10 fee for the domain they can't be bothered to maintain. I sent 'em a rocket, and got back a form email, sorrowing that I was leaving them and asking me to let them know if there was anything they'd done wrong. Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce. I bet they charge me another $10.
I don't think I'll be getting another vanity domain.
