January 2010
149 posts
“It isn’t Content if someone isn’t willing to pay something for it in...”
– sam lessin: modest proposals - a log on information, privacy vs. publicity, communication, change, people
“It’s as though the New York Fed was a black-ops outfit for the nation’s central...”
– Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: David Reilly - Bloomberg.com
“Every so often at Davos you have a short, startling conversation which...”
– the subject is FOOD. Nice article from a resident of my Economics folder - Felix Salmon.
World hunger and the locavores | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
“Henry, we are in a situation where mild rebuke, even critiques we consider...”
– Howard Zinn In an email to Henry Giroux 1/2010
Howard Zinn…not in our high schools either | Angry Bear
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“The music’s not in the piano,” he said. “If it was, we’d have to let it vote.”
– Alan Kay via ‘The music’s not in the piano’ « Snarkmarket
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Dissapointed As A Way of Being
Maybe this … is the ultimate upshot of our endless, self-wrought swirl of sour disappointment, of never having our impossible needs fully met, of constantly being thwarted in our desire to have the world revolve around our exact set of specifications and desires.
Mark Morford SFGate - Why Are You So Terribly Dissappointing? HT JKS
Tweet-scale Versions
“Read the whole thing, but Tweet-scale version of the answer is: Things are getting warmer, just not where most Americans/Europeans would notice this year” -James Fallows
Tweet scale version of the answer. Love that. Yes, net it out, kill the baby and cut the crap. In online reading, I often scroll to the end of an article to cut to the chase and the Tweetable summary line.
I rely on...
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“Love the idea of showing biggest donors as part of the “identity” of...”
– What fun! Exactly who are you ?
via Tim O’Reilly on Twitter
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“Having a specialty gives you an identity.”
– Marilyn Johnson via Blog Archive » This Interview is Early!
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“Far from floating free in a state of unbelonging, most people are trapped in...”
– Zadie Smith gets it ¦ The Interstitial Arts Foundation
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Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
An excerpt from A People’s History of the United States:
[Most] histories understate revolt, overemphasize statesmanship, and thus encourage impotency among citizens. When we look closely at resistance movements, or even at isolated forms of rebellion, we discover that class consciousness, or any other awareness of injustice, has multiple levels. It has many ways of expression, many ways of...
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A new class of content for a new class of device «... →
Robin envisions art!
Tyler Cowen suggests textbooks or a clipboard at the end of hospital beds?
A Kottke commenter adds:
Sippey calls the iPad the family computer:
It looks like a great machine to travel from the living room to the kitchen to the kids room to the bedroom. We’ll search the web on it, read the news on it, the kids will do email on it, play Brushes and Bejeweled on it, and...
George Lakoff - Where's The Movement?
Democracy is about empathy — caring about your fellow citizens, which leads to the principles of freedom and fairness for all. Empathy requires both personal and social responsibility. The ethic of excellence means making the world better by making yourself better, your family better, your community better, and your nation better. Government has two moral missions: protection and empowerment...
“Democrats still have the presidency and a majority in the House and Senate, but...”
– George Lakoff: Where’s The Movement?
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Why the U.S. is Ungovernable, Arnold Kling |... →
“It’s the latest meme. The U.S. is ungovernable, because of a) Senate procedures b) Republican obstructionism c) polarization d) special interests etc.”
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“What “unsustainable” means is that the current government is making...”
– EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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WatchTomorrow, in a year — A Darwin electro-opera with music by The Knife via BMD Love Blog
More info here. Love this quote from the site.
Nature selects, invites and dares everything without limitation – Ralf Richardt Strøbech, co-director, Tomorrow, in a year
“To build someone’s identity takes more than one’s existence
So look me from...”
– IN CHILDHOODVILLE (A sonnet) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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“Take some time out from your bloody lifecasting and lurk around as an amplifier.”
– # 2 of Five Things To Do With Twitter When You Suspect You’re Doing It Wrong | The Awl
“An item which gets picked up and draws in new visitors is worth more than a...”
– Gawker Media Moves To Uniques: Be “Even More of a Hustler,” Says Nick Denton | The Awl
I get the point but OUCH, that hurt!
Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users... →
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The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who... →
Great article. Long but super interesting.
Making Art - Seth Godin
My definition of art contains three elements:
1. Art is made by a human being.
2. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
3. Art is.a gift. You can sell the souvenir, the canvas, the recording… but the idea itself is free, and the generosity is a critical part of making art.
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we’re...
“Even though they are artificial entities, with greater access to capital,...”
– Douglas Rushkoff » Corporations as Uber-Citizens (via markury) (via notational)
“The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like...”
– Justice John Paul Stevens Voices Frustration With Recent Decisions of Supreme Court - Series - NYTimes.com
WatchWatch Madame Tutli Putli in HD online « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
It’s dark and curious … wordless with an haunting score.
Via Wikipedia:The filmmakers researched the film by traveling on The Canadian, north of Lake Superior, living on the train for two weeks, collecting stories. The stop motion animation took them more than five years. Critics lauded the film...
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Secret copyright treaty: how we got here, what you... →
EFF podcast from BoingBoing.
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All designed objects are propaganda for a certain...
The design students I taught last year had extraordinary imagination and motivation to come up with new objects and interactions, but really struggled to reimagine social relations. It reminded me of all those 50s/60s visions of the future where everything is different, except for the roles of women, people of colour and the working class.
Alain de Botton om Twitter via Plsi field notes
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“Money Isn’t Speech and Corporations Aren’t People.”
– I don’t know who said this first but fuck yeah!
The misguided theories behind Citizens United v. FEC. - By David Kairys - Slate Magazine
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A Rant About Socialization →
Clay Shirky asks why a woman can’t be more like a man. It’s because she’ll pay for it. It’s complicated!
It's Time for a Shareholder Protection Act →
NO, NO, NO! Move to Amend
Activist ejected from "public" meeting on secret... →
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“The present is a word for only those words which I am now saying.”
– Prose Poem - Corruption by Srikanth Reddy via As It Ought To Be
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Activists push to abolish ‘corporate personhood’... →
4 minutes … give a listen. How did they get personhood?
Here is a background post I put together with the help of Tim O’Reilly. FY Internet!