Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 99

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the claim of Pavel Netupsky about the legality of the feverish activity of the Ministry of Communications around SORM-2 - in particular, one of the movements of this department, worthy in all respects, order #130 dated July 25 of this year “On the procedure for introducing a system of technical means to ensure operational - search activities on telephone, mobile and wireless communication networks and personal radio calls for public use." The activities of the Ministry of Communications are recognized as contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, since they involve a violation of the secrecy of communications. Q.E.D. We are awaiting the reaction of the FSB with interest.

On the question of what we read in online media and what is the quality of what we have to read (we are talking about American media, but, in fact, national differences are supposed to be small). The Online News Association conducted a survey of managers responsible for hiring employees at 141 online publications. The results turned out... in a word, the results turned out.

Most online media (especially those that have spun off from traditional ones) seem to want from journalists basically the same thing that newspapers and television usually want from them. That is, the ability to write quickly and efficiently and adequately evaluate stories. No special technical skills are required from online journalists - except for some reason knowledge of HTML. Everything else, according to media management, can be learned on the job (HTML, apparently, cannot). In general, online journalists, as it turned out, are required (in descending order): the ability to update materials, edit or rewrite them for online publications, find resources so that there is somewhere to put links, knowledge in the field of creating multimedia projects and the ability to find links to more early relevant texts in the publication where the journalist works. Knowledge of programming languages, database management, the ability to create original web pages and work with WYSIWYG editors is not required from journalists.

All this, we note to ourselves, is not mockery, but quite serious research. And its results (if we take them seriously, and we seem to have no options) lead me into the usual state of deep bewilderment. On the one hand, yes, it’s probably good that netheads are gradually being replaced by those whom we, by inertia, continue to consider normal people - more or less offline, that is. On the other hand, we are again being poked into an already obvious depressing situation: it is increasingly discovered that the people creating the Network today do not have the slightest idea about it - neither from a technical nor from an ideological point of view.

Although from the third side, of course, “shave first, ugly.”

• " Memonet " announced the launch of a new project " World of Cinema " - a resource dedicated to... guess what, with an impressive database of actors, films and everything else.
• The brave group Offspring abandoned grandiose plans to publish a new single and album online in the public domain and now intends to limit themselves to only the single . Communication with recording studios is not in vain.
• " Ozone " opened a forum system .
• The more sociologists study the mysterious phenomenon under the code name “digital divide” (also known as “digital inequality”), the stranger the results become. In particular, researchers from Nielsen//NetRatings found that while most households with Internet access have decent incomes and education levels, families with low incomes/education are more likely to use it once they have access . And then prove that going online is not avoiding problems.