{"id":996,"date":"2008-05-15T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/05\/15\/diigo-bookmarks-05152008-pm\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:02:09","slug":"diigo-bookmarks-05152008-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/05\/15\/diigo-bookmarks-05152008-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Diigo Bookmarks 05\/15\/2008 (p.m.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/surveys\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950394\">Nomads at last | Economist.com<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"diigo-link-opts\"> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/02k99\">Annotated<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Published on the same date as <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6nhzvy\">The new oases<\/a> (which I bookmarked at the time), I missed this story the first time around (April 10).  Saw it now via Wendy Waters&#8217;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutcities.ca\/old-and-new-third-places\/\">All About Cities<\/a>.  Like &#8220;The new oases,&#8221; this article is also about mobile computing, and its effects on our social worlds\/ lived lives.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd this topic should have popped up for me today, as the other article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950463\">The new oases<\/a>) was one I thought of as seeming apposite to a discussion around video commenting,  taking place on <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2008\/05\/disqus-and-sees.html\">Fred Wilson&#8217;s blog<\/a>.   The conversation there is about <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/\">Disqus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seesmic.com\/\">Seesmic<\/a>, which have joined forces to enable users to leave video recorded comments (vs. text scribblings) on blogs.  Somehow, when I read about this (also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2008\/05\/14\/seesmicAndDisqusSittinInAT.html\">Dave Winer&#8217;s blog<\/a> as well as Wilson&#8217;s &#8212; I left a comment on the latter&#8217;s, albeit straight text, no video), I immediately thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950463\">The new oases<\/a> and its points regarding isolation.  Disclaimer: my &#8220;ruminations&#8221; have nothing to do with the conversations taking place on either blog or their comments boards. I&#8217;m thinking about this from a more abstract angle, although the question, &#8220;what&#8217;s the point of video comments?&#8221; did come up again and again on those blogs, too.<\/p>\n<p>What is the point?  More information?  More immediacy?  More &#8230;more?  If it&#8217;s more more (immediacy, intimacy, contact), then you really do have to wonder.  Can the technology can ever <em>produce<\/em> or <em>recreate<\/em> &#8220;nest warmth,&#8221; that sense of communal belonging, or isn&#8217;t each instance of technological mediation just another way of giving us yet another perspective view on our own selves?  Another perspective, which is a slice but hardly an integration, a whole?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the case that &#8220;communal belonging&#8221; or what the Germans call &#8220;Nestwaerme&#8221; (nest warmth), which is a kind of fusion, is a good thing; nor is it a question of whether getting a perspective (let&#8217;s call that slicing or parsing) is a good thing.  They&#8217;re both good things in their appropriate times and places.  It&#8217;s more a question of not confusing one for the other, and I got the impression from reading responses that there&#8217;s a lot of confusion &#8212; and confusing of the two.  On Wilson&#8217;s blog there&#8217;s much discussion of whether or not the Disqus-Seesmic joint venture (video blog comments) will produce better comments\/ comments streams\/ understanding.  I don&#8217;t think it will.  It will just refract whatever understanding exists or is able to be seen into yet more facets.  That&#8217;s all.  <em>Whether or not<\/em> those slices and perspectives will be pulled into a new whole will depend on who&#8217;s doing the pulling.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/the_economist\">the_economist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nomadism\">nomadism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mobile_technology\">mobile_technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mobile_city\">mobile_city<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/technology\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouversun\/news\/westcoastnews\/story.html?id=60cb568f-21c5-4b8c-8978-e550a86be6ca\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/vancouversun\/news\/westcoastnews\/story.html?id=60cb568f-21c5-4b8c-8978-e550a86be6ca\">Colourful banners to light up city (Vancouver Sun)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to have something like this (based on a virus invading the artist&#8217;s computer) be digital\/ computer-generated, instead of in the same old technique of &#8230;?screen-printed banners?  C&#8217;mon, so it&#8217;s a nice pattern &#8212; but if it derived from &#8220;a virus that invaded [artist Bratsa] Bonifacho&#8217;s computer,&#8221; why not make it viral in form?<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a123.g.akamai.net\/f\/123\/12465\/1d\/media.canada.com\/idl\/vasn\/20080514\/161146-53418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/vancouver\">vancouver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/bratsa_bonifacho\">bratsa_bonifacho<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/art\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/art_projects\">art_projects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/public_art\">public_art<\/a><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomads at last | Economist.com &#8211; Annotated Published on the same date as The new oases (which I bookmarked at the time), I missed this story the first time around (April 10). Saw it now via Wendy Waters&#8217;s blog, All About Cities. Like &#8220;The new oases,&#8221; this article is also about mobile computing, and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1652,290,103,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authenticity","category-links","category-media","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}