As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been commenting on a couple of other sites. As a result, I started mulling over the odd (to me) idea that having a PhD from Harvard and having taught at MIT and Brown is meaningful over and above the ideas I try to contribute when I write […]
Dave Winer pointed to a SoCal news video that another blogger has on their site. Twelve minutes of pain. Must see, click through. In response, I commented the following: Just watched the “meltdown” news video you linked to, above. Oh my god. The waste, the waste of it all. Lives, land, stuff, potential. LAND! LandFILL. […]
Just a test, as something seems to be broken with my feed reader and I need to check whether it’s a one-off problem or something deeper.
“Image Disembodiment?”, by Bernard Languillier Found via …? Kazys Varnelis?, Geoff at BLDGBLOG? (can’t place it, but at some smart blog I read), an essay by Bernard Languillier about how the digital process is changing our relationship with printed images. It’s a to-read-later piece for me right now – haven’t had time to read it […]
reportonbusiness.com: Harper defends cuts to arts programs – Annotated G&M article on recent announcement of cuts in arts funding, which co-incided with the Conference Board of Canada’s report on the significance of the arts to Canada’s economy. tags: globeandmail, steven_harper, canada, cultural_support, funding, conference_board_canada, arts_funding Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada’s Creative Economy – Annotated […]
Voices From the Suburban Blogosphere, by Bob Tedeschi – NYTimes.com Article that chronicles the role of blogging in the creation of new hyper local / local news eco-systems. QUOTE: For readers, the blogs are providing news in ways unseen in traditional local news media. (…) Like other journalists who run news sites, Paul Bass, New […]
In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse | spiked Annotated tags: apocalypse, criticalthinking, frank_furedi, opinion, political_correctness, public_opinion, spiked_online The issues that Furedi raise have been bugging me for a couple of years now — ever since running into James Kunstler and his ueber-successful economic project of making a living off scaring the pants off […]
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve read many interesting things about “the local,” a topos (literally!) that’s being mined in the wake of our lengthy infatuation / fascination with “the global.” I suppose it’s about time — maybe you can’t be general without being specific, and vice versa. Trendwatching kicked things off in early […]
The entry I wrote the other day, when I briefly woke my old blog from months-long slumber, on which Melanie from way down under left a lovely comment, didn’t make the transition. For some reason it was …abbreviated. That’s ok: it was all about how I’m not blogging anymore, and won’t be in the future. […]
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