22 September, 2014

A public apology – on screwing up by not questioning assumptions – my talk at #BIF10 | ... My heart’s in Accra

A public apology – on screwing up by not questioning assumptions – my talk at #BIF10 | ... My heart’s in Accra:

Adrienne’s Atlantic piece, lightly rewritten, appeared in about forty
news outlets over the next 24 hours. I got loads of interview requests
and I did one of them before realizing that this was a very bad idea,
and that even normally staid news outlets like the BBC would be far more
interested in my “confession” than in the broader argument about
advertising and surveillance. And then the emails and the tweets started
to come in, first cursing me out in English, and then in Turkish,
Portuguese, Chinese and Croatian as the story spread globally.



Andy Warhol predicted that, in the future, we would all be famous for
15 minutes. There’s another possibility: on the internet, we will all
be intensely loathed for about 15 seconds.

Adrienne’s Atlantic piece, lightly rewritten, appeared in about forty
news outlets over the next 24 hours. I got loads of interview requests
and I did one of them before realizing that this was a very bad idea,
and that even normally staid news outlets like the BBC would be far more
interested in my “confession” than in the broader argument about
advertising and surveillance. And then the emails and the tweets started
to come in, first cursing me out in English, and then in Turkish,
Portuguese, Chinese and Croatian as the story spread globally.

Andy Warhol predicted that, in the future, we would all be famous for
15 minutes. There’s another possibility: on the internet, we will all
be intensely loathed for about 15 seconds.

- See more at:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/09/17/a-public-apology-on-screwing-up-by-not-questioning-assumptions-my-talk-at-bif10/#sthash.cUG5BQfO.dpuf
Adrienne’s Atlantic piece, lightly rewritten, appeared in about forty
news outlets over the next 24 hours. I got loads of interview requests
and I did one of them before realizing that this was a very bad idea,
and that even normally staid news outlets like the BBC would be far more
interested in my “confession” than in the broader argument about
advertising and surveillance. And then the emails and the tweets started
to come in, first cursing me out in English, and then in Turkish,
Portuguese, Chinese and Croatian as the story spread globally.

Andy Warhol predicted that, in the future, we would all be famous for
15 minutes. There’s another possibility: on the internet, we will all
be intensely loathed for about 15 seconds.

- See more at:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/09/17/a-public-apology-on-screwing-up-by-not-questioning-assumptions-my-talk-at-bif10/#sthash.cUG5BQfO.dpuf
Adrienne’s Atlantic piece, lightly rewritten, appeared in about forty
news outlets over the next 24 hours. I got loads of interview requests
and I did one of them before realizing that this was a very bad idea,
and that even normally staid news outlets like the BBC would be far more
interested in my “confession” than in the broader argument about
advertising and surveillance. And then the emails and the tweets started
to come in, first cursing me out in English, and then in Turkish,
Portuguese, Chinese and Croatian as the story spread globally.

Andy Warhol predicted that, in the future, we would all be famous for
15 minutes. There’s another possibility: on the internet, we will all
be intensely loathed for about 15 seconds.