"hackers"

[Richard Vickery]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Digimer <lists at 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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