On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote: > On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > >> Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the >> outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used >> the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23 April 2013 30-minute >> radio news at about the half-way point. Everyone ought to go to this >> link and suggest that they should quit abusing the term. >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/ >> >> to listen to her abuse of the term, go to the link with "contact" >> removed / deleted - before Wednesday, 25 April at UTC 01:00 (PDT 18:00, >> in case I did the math wrong). >> >> Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as >> calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so >> I out not lose too much sleep over it. >> >> regards, >> Richard >> > > I've been interviewed a couple of times by CBC and other media. Each time > I explain what "hackers" means, and it doesn't really go anywhere. The way > I see it, we just need more positive "hacker" and maker stories than there > are bad ones. In the mean time, don't let it get to you. Just go do good > stuff. > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without > access to education? >
Arg! The "good stuff" never makes news; it's not sensational enough.
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