Word of the Day
Posted in: Miscellanea on May 29
The word of the day:
"It's all fed by slacktivism," she said, "the desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair."
From the NY Times story They Weren't Careful What They Hoped For about an elementary school's experiment in how far and fast email can travel. They (the schools in the article) are really doing a kind of uncontrolled small world experiment, similar to one underway at Columbia.
Posted by Gene Smith on May 29, 2002
