Netscape has various channels so readers can find the news they want to read, submitted and voted on by the community itself.
If you’re interested in politics, then go to the "Politics Chanel" where you’ll find small nuggets of golden news and information that the community digs up, dumps into the political channel and votes on, to highlight the most important/relevant stories. In the process a greater purpose is served — the effective distribution of information.
But what about the "Do No Evil" section?
I ask because I have recently become the Netscape Navigator committed to the "Do No Evil" channel.
First: There is some confusion about the role of a Navigator that I want to address. We are not here to promote Netscape at all costs and bash Digg, Reditt or Newsvine. We are not hired to give other users a hard time. Nor is our goal to promote a political ideology. We perform a service. It’s the new service of social bookmarking. We want to find those gold url-nuggets and submit them to Netscape for you guys. We are at your disposal to some extent — I want to submit bookmarks that you will find, appreciate, enjoy, etc. I want to help form a community feel. And since "Do No Evil" is my beat, that’s where I want to begin.
But I need your help first.
What better way to start than by asking what you all want to see in
the "Do No Evil" channel.
Why do I ask? Unlike Politics, Tech and
Gadgets, or Travel, the "Do No Evil" channel is somewhat amorphous in
content. It has no clear definition and is open to interpretation. Is
it a section on Google? Maybe that’s too small and falls under tech. Is
it about nonprofits, great deeds and accomplishments of mankind?
Maybe that’s too touchy-feely. What about the extremes of human
potential (the good along with the bad)?
I don’t know and it’s not my role to define what the Netscape community
wants to read. I’m just here to help spur/keep up with the conversation and react. So I thought I’d open it up to discussion. What do you
want to see in the "Do No Evil" channel. If a Navigator’s job is to
provide the foundation for community, and to try to find as many great
submits as possible — I’m up the task. But first I need your help.
I would like to see good news, that is, people helping people.
I’d like to see some original ideas from Netscape. First cloning Digg, then borrowing Google’s company motto. Ooh, snap!
I’d like to see that title used as social sarcasm, a proverbial ode to mankind’s calculated obliviousness to the hell they reap in the world.
I think the category should be “Do No Evil?” instead of “Do No Evil.”
Focus on the dark that comes with the light: How your vacation must have been nice, but that jet you took is destroying the world. Or how your pay increase rules, but Jose in the copier room is staying at 8 an hour. Or how veggies are great but they’re covered in toxic chemicals. Or, conversely, how your stolen bike led to a kid who could never afford a bike to have one. You know, things like so and so may have died of cancer but her kidney was working fine and that little boy-genius was able to live.
Write about things like that.
Cause its impossible to do no evil. We don’t even know what evil is.
To me, Do No Evil connotes anything that hints of corruption or the character either good or bad in people. As animals are incapable of evil (other than fictional ones) the human animal is the one with whom you must be concerned. It often overlaps with Politics and should as evil and goodness drive people. Not to be confused with religiosity, there is a true aesthetic of evil, separate from those things of God or Gods.
Law breakers, sociopaths and heroes are plentiful, and the finger-pointing even more abundant.
As we come up to the elections, I would assume Netscape will create a separate category for campaign activity, as it should. As someone who has seen a huge lot of both good and evil on all continents, I am sure their will be plenty remaining for the skeptical consideration of goodness and badness.
Please give the SF valley my regards, especially NoHo.
Bryan E. Hall, Editor
dulyconsider.com
falsepretender.com
I use the Do No Evil channel, because nothing else fits. I would prefer more channels. You could begin by adding a government channel, which would be less ambiguous than politics.
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