We work for the Internet

by ChrisArchitect • 15 years ago

122 35 15 years ago

alpb• 15 years ago

Would be great if it works on iPad. However I think there's no way to upload photos or files on iOS Safari.

iCabMobile let's you fill file inputs with photos and other downloaded content. I really prefer it over Safari most of the time.

dallasmarlow2• 15 years ago

stop sopa, or find new jobs!

patdryburgh• 15 years ago

Wasn't aware that producing work on the internet was limited to American citizens. McDonald's, here I come.

dallasmarlow2• 15 years ago

the site is in reference to sopa, which is (unfortunately) an american bill. i promise you don't have to work for McDonald's.

cf0ed2aa-bdf5• 15 years ago

Even though SOPA is an American bill it still has a very big impact on the internet for citizens in every other country.

That being said I think it still makes sense for the site to just list American entrepreneurs/developers/designers/etc.

civilian• 15 years ago

Hah, there's a lot of duplicates on this page. Someone has an off-by-one error in the AJAX loading.

davidkarp014• 15 years ago

Sorry! It's because there are so many being added. We're adding de-duping now. This was my crappy code.

agentultra• 15 years ago

It would probably be easier/better if /page/<integer> returned a JSON object.

Would also make scraping the site a little easier and reduce load on your systems... (I'm interested in the titles "web workers" are giving themselves, making this a rather nice data source).

PS: I play nice and won't "leech," promise. ;)

yangez2• 15 years ago

It's a great emotional tool to bring tangible people into the discussion. Although having powerful statistics and logic is nice, it's appealing to see the faces of real people that would be affected by this bill.

I can't find it now, but there was some interesting research done a while back on charities. Turns out that people would donate more to a charity that helps a single child rather than one that helps a million children, simply because the former has a more tangible benefit.

spontaneus• 15 years ago

I believe they hit on this in Made to Stick.

yangez2• 15 years ago

Thanks - I think that was it. Phenomenal book.

seanstickle2• 15 years ago

Am I to understand that people who live in Washington DC do not, in fact, matter? The state drop down has no provision for DC.

davidkarp014• 15 years ago

Fixing.

seanstickle2• 15 years ago

Quick work. Thanks.

ludflu• 15 years ago

as far as congress is concerned, that may well be accurate.

pdx• 15 years ago

It's not immediately clear what this page is for.

For me, I began to read the paragraph, but my eyes were quickly distracted to the loading pictures. I assumed this was an anti SOPA page, but had to reread it to make sure.

Please make the premise of the page, big, bold, and in the first line of text, so distracted congressmen don't miss what it is they're being told.

Timothee• 15 years ago

I would not be surprised at all if a lot of people added themselves without realizing this was linked to SOPA.

I didn't even notice the text and jumped right to the pictures… I thought this was some kind of "hey, we work on the same stuff! I'm proud to be working on the Internet".

orborde• 15 years ago

I'm on my phone, and the mobile site only has the pictures. I have no idea what this is supposed to be about.

davidkarp014• 15 years ago

Fixed. Thanks for catching.

uptown• 15 years ago

Cool idea. After SOPA passes or fails (hopefully the latter), the site could totally pivot into a dating website for techies.

jamalkhan• 15 years ago

No option for people outside US to add themselves!

rubinelli• 15 years ago

The point is, we can't elect American congressmen, so they aren't necessarily supposed to care if we have jobs or not.

zhwang2• 15 years ago

I'm scrolling down and I find people making funny poses and trying to look cool.

If you're trying to make a political message clear, is this how you want to represent yourself?

sliverstorm• 15 years ago

It's pretty clear the goal of the website is to add a "human element" to the impact of the bill. Prison mug shots do not add a human element.

zhwang2• 15 years ago

Yes, I completely agree. But perhaps you could be smiling, at a nice sunny location. The human element would be there. That's not a "prison mug shot". Plenty of the photos on the site are like that.

But if you're trying to say "Look, you're going to put all these people out of work if this thing passes", i.e. you're pointing out the human element of what the bill could cause, what is an average, uninformed person ("the world", as the website says) going to think when they see a bunch of people making ridiculous poses?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4cbpmNsM1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4es2F2II1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw45rnSi8N1r8635ko1_250.jp...

I very much doubt they'd emphasise.

And it takes nothing more than the mainstream media selectively ignoring the majority to make the whole industry look like asshats.

necenzurat• 15 years ago

no international support?

akcreek• 15 years ago

That's available at McDonalds.

lpnotes• 15 years ago

I really like the idea! Could you put in a count of the # of people who have submitted pictures so far on the top?

kennywinker• 15 years ago

Whoa, babe city. Scrolled down through a few dozen photos. All the girls are babes, and about 60% of the dudes (which, being heterosexual, is a pretty good percentage). The internet is more attractive than expected. ;)

nrbafna• 15 years ago

add a counter to show no. of people added?

fiatpandas• 15 years ago

The submit page is messed up in FF 8.0 for me: http://i.imgur.com/Htp3H.png

slowpoke• 15 years ago

>We know first-hand that the Internet powers the American dream.

It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it[1]. Wake the fuck up. There is no American Dream, exceptions prove the rule. It's a convenient self-delusion that keeps most people in line. If you want to fight legislation like this, the first thing you have to realize that all these values on the constitution don't mean shit, especially to the politicians pushing these bills. I'm really sorry to be so blunt, but this is something that people need to have pounded into their heads, or else there will never be any change. You can't fight this system of corruption while believing in its lies at the same time.

[1] quoting George Carlin here.

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