“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
Why was my traffic up yesterday? Oh, right. That article I wrote got published at Six Revisions.
“Social media distinguishes itself from less versatile interactive mediums of the past like print and traditional advertising by giving life to the Intelligent User.
This modern distinction is often misunderstood by web developers and under-appreciated by users because the power of choice is a novel distinction.
It didn’t exist in previous mediums. In marketing, for example, consumers are used to the old paradigm where they listen passively and marketers tell them what to think. The interaction only moves in one direction.
On the Internet, interaction is more involved and the Intelligent User — as the consequence of this new system — has overtaken the old paradigm.”
I am both fascinated and appalled by this new term that entered my vocabulary: blogazine. Fascinated, because the concept is an indication of a shift in the publishing industry and an indispensable categorical aid, and appalled because the term itself is the kind of tasteless, slap-together solution that speaks of sloppy, but necessary, repairs. Read on »
One of my customers in the restaurant last night was a little girl, who could not have been older than one year old; who could not even speak to me, if she could speak at all; and who sat in a high chair and flipped through photos and videos on an iPhone with more dexterity than you would expect out of any fully grown, intelligent adult with a college education. Read on »
It’s a couple months old and I don’t know how I missed it, but you must read this Vanity Fair feature on “the unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.” (Also, the second incarnation is up at exiledonline.com)
“The main thing we’re contributing back is the advancement of the idea of internet culture to more and more people … just the sheer growing acceptance of user submitted content and the fact that we can affect popular culture.”
“You laugh about this but we may be on the forefront of Internet culture becoming most dominant culture in the world … through the power of the internet and through the community.”
“The tepee is much better to live in; always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move … Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.”
“Throughout history side effects have proven more dangerous than direct effects. If, for example, global warming makes digital technology’s side effects irrelevant, our concerns will have been obliterated by the side effect of a much older technology: industrialization.” Neville Holmes, Side Effects of Digital Technology
It seems that the more technology we invent the more likely we are to be the cause of our own extinction. Unlike the dinosaurs. They had it easy. Blame it on the asteroid, blame it on the ice age. Where have we to lay the blame? Only on ourselves.
Because if global warming doesn’t kill us first, obesity, laziness, diabetes, and a supreme lack of foresight surely will. Read on »
