| 词条 | Andrew Orlowski |
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| name = Andrew Orlowski | image = Orlowski.jpg | caption = Orlowski in 2006 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = | occupation = Executive editor for IT news and opinion website The Register | spouse = | children = | relations = | website = {{URL|andreworlowski.com}} }}Andrew Orlowski (born 1966) is a British columnist, an investigative journalist and the executive editor of the IT news and opinion website The Register.[1][1] Journalism careerIn his youth, Orlowski had been involved in a school magazine called Within These Walls, and a fanzine named Paradise Demise.[3] Moving from Northallerton, Yorkshire, to Manchester in 1984, he studied at University of Manchester and worked as a receptionist in the IT department at GM Buses, before taking a course in computer programming.[3] He worked as a programmer in Altrincham in the early 1990s, and later said that he "found that a lot less creative than I'd expected, and this being my first proper job I soon got disillusioned."[3] Orlowski wrote reviews for Manchester's City Life magazine from 1988, and in 1992 started an alternative newspaper called Badpress in Manchester.[2] In 1994 he became computer correspondent at Private Eye magazine.[2][3] In the late 1990s, he wrote for PC Pro[4] and was news editor at IT Week.[5] Today, Orlowski is a columnist and the executive editor of IT news and opinion website The Register; he was based in San Francisco for five years in the early 2000s, reporting for The Register, but returned to England in 2006.[6][7] Orlowski also gave one of the earliest mentions of the term iPhone, which he wrote in a The Register article in August 2002 amid speculation of a mobile phone partnership between Apple and Sony Ericsson.[8] "Googlewashing"{{Main|Googlewashing}}In 2003, Orlowski coined the term googlewashing to describe the potential for accidental or intentional censorship of concepts through the way search engines like Google Search operate.[14] An article in The New York Times[9] commenting on worldwide anti-war demonstrations had stated that "there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion", and the term "the Second Superpower" suddenly acquired widespread currency.[14] However, within a few weeks, most of the top search engine results for the term had come to be about something else, because a prominent blogger had used the same term in what Orlowski described as a "plea for net users to organize themselves as a 'superpower'."[10][11] The blogger's piece was so well linked and so widely commented upon online that the first few pages of Google hits in a search for "the second superpower" all were about his new meaning, with the original anti-war meaning relegated to "other links not shown because they are deemed to be irrelevant."[10] Even the term googlewashing itself almost came to be "googlewashed" in a similar manner, with Orlowski's original definition temporarily disappearing from the top Google search results for the term.[10][12][13] Writings on techno-utopianismOrlowski is a frequent writer on techno-utopianism.[14] Concerning the political influence of Google, Orlowski has said, "The web is a secular religion at the moment and politicians go to pray at events like the Google Zeitgeist conference. Any politician who wants to brand himself as a forward-looking person will get himself photographed with the Google boys. [...] It's the big regulatory issue of the next 10 years: how politicians deal with Google. If the web is as important as the politicians say, it seems odd that one company sets the price and defines the terms of business."[15] Commenting on the vision of the technological singularity, a future time when people and machines would combine to form a new superintelligence, and at least a part of humanity might overcome biological limitations like death and disease, he has stated that "The Singularity is not the great vision for society that Lenin had or Milton Friedman might have. It is rich people building a lifeboat and getting off the ship."[14] In December 2004, Orlowski was invited to a discussion panel on techno-utopianism at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.[16] He was Assistant Producer of Adam Curtis' 2011 BBC TV series on techno-utopianism, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.[17] English Wikipedia criticismIn the 2000s, Orlowski often took a critical view of English Wikipedia, noting in 2005, "Readability, which wasn't great to begin with, has plummeted. Formerly coherent and reasonably accurate articles in the technical section have gotten worse as they've gotten longer."[18][19] In a 2005 BBC article, Bill Thompson said Orlowski was "scathing in his dismissal of the site as a cult-like organisation where faith triumphs rationality, and even suggests we look at English Wikipedia as 'a massively scalable, online role-playing game' where 'players can assume fictional online identities and many "editors" do just that'."[20] References1. ^{{cite book|author=Bob Dickinson|title=Imprinting the sticks: the alternative press beyond London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6NZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 October 2012|date=27 November 1997|publisher=Arena|isbn=978-1-85742-234-4|page=229}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 Bob Dickson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723022801/http://www.badpress.net/badpress/contents.html A Retch in the Rain], Badpress 3. ^Internet Porn: "Government report suppressed", PR Newswire, 6 September 1996 4. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/51997.stm |title=Sci/Tech | The key debate on encryption |publisher=BBC News |date=30 January 1998 |accessdate=30 April 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999033100410PS |title=IT Week: Tim O'Reilly talks Open Source |publisher=Linux Today |date=31 March 1999 |accessdate=30 April 2013}} 6. ^1 {{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/about/company/contact/ | title=Contact the Register | work=The Register | accessdate=19 January 2012}} 7. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925064948/http://gawker.com/176679/geek-out-well-miss-you-orlowski |date=25 September 2012 }} 8. ^https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/28/sony_apple_make_phone_dream/ 9. ^{{cite news|author=PATRICK E. TYLERPublished: 17 February 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/world/threats-and-responses-news-analysis-a-new-power-in-the-streets.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=THREATS AND RESPONSES: NEWS ANALYSIS; A New Power In the Streets – New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=17 February 2003 |accessdate=30 April 2013}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|author1=Andrew A. Adams|author2=Rachel McCrindle|title=Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXmx97UzO6IC&pg=PA122|accessdate=30 September 2012|date=15 February 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-06553-2|pages=122–123}} 11. ^Andrew Orlowski, [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/03/antiwar_slogan_coined_repurposed/ Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed… in 42 days], The Register, 3 April 2003 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/10/google_washes_whiter/|title=Google washes whiter|publisher=}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2054746/-googlewash-is-googlewashed-online-reputation-defenders|title="Googlewash" Is Googlewashed by Online Reputation Defenders|author=Kevin Heisler|work=Search Engine Watch}} 14. ^1 {{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | first=Ashlee | last=Vance | title=In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday | date=12 June 2010}} 15. ^{{cite news|author=David Smith |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/aug/17/googlethemedia.google |title=Google, 10 years in: big, friendly giant or a greedy Goliath? | Media | The Observer |publisher=Guardian |date= 17 August 2008|accessdate=30 April 2013 |location=London}} 16. ^Mistakes Techno Utopians Make: Fantasy Politics and the Disappearing Social December 2004 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/tge-panel-1/ |title=Are the creative industries losing the PR battle on legislative reform? | M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine – PRS for Music Online Magazine |publisher=M magazine |date=5 February 2013 |accessdate=30 April 2013}} 18. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-138498694.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011162934/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-138498694.html | dead-url=yes | archive-date=11 October 2013 | title=web search; What's wrong with Wikipedia?(SOURCE) | publisher=Star Tribune | date=7 November 2005 | accessdate=2 October 2012 | author=Salas, Randy}}{{Subscription required|via=HighBeam Research}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/24/wikipedia_letters/|title=Wikipedia: magic, monkeys and typewriters|publisher=}} 20. ^{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4534712.stm | title=What is it with Wikipedia? | work=BBC.co.uk | date=16 December 2005 | accessdate=23 December 2011 | author=Thompson, Bill}} External links
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