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William Gibson - SOMEONE WONDERS... - Media perception and blogs |
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2:08 pm EST, Mar 14, 2003 |
] While I'm on the topic of mediated personae, something
] that came up during that CBC taping, last night (for me,
] anyway) was the idea that blogging (or even posting to
] fora) represents the democratization of the mediated
] persona. Literally anyone can have one, now, or several.
] I am an exception to this, because I have mine via the
] printed word, the oldest mass medium on the planet, and
] this website is maintained by a publishing company that
] belongs to an even larger corporation owned in turn by
] shapeshifting reptiles from Beta Reticuli, but the rest
] of you, today, are free to mass-mediate your own
] personae. Which was formerly, hugely, not the case.
] Choose a handle, post: you're mediating a persona. William Gibson - SOMEONE WONDERS... - Media perception and blogs |
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| Topic: Current Events |
5:32 am EST, Mar 14, 2003 |
] I'm calling in from the highly-guarded border of Iran and
] Kurdistan. A truck is waiting for us to transport CNN
] staff, our personal belongings, and our television gear
] into kurd-controlled northern Iraq. We're crossing into
] this region to cover the northern front of a potential
] war with Iraq, in an area dense with oil-rich fields
] along the northern no-fly-zone. This guy is fucking nuts. (With apologies to Elonka.) That having been said, this could be one of the more interesting weblogs in the coming weeks.... Unless someone actually starts blogging from Bagdad. Or, you know, they actually negotiate a peace. Or the Aliens arrive and colonize the planet. Kevin Sites Blog |
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The founder of Visa on Corporations |
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3:16 pm EST, Mar 11, 2003 |
] Command-and-control organizations, Hock says, "were not
] only archaic and increasingly irrelevant. They were
] becoming a public menace, antithetical to the human
] spirit and destructive of the biosphere. I was convinced
] we were on the brink of an epidemic of institutional
] failure." Vewy vewy intewesting. The founder of Visa on Corporations |
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5:02 am EST, Mar 10, 2003 |
] Profound changes have been taking place in American
] foreign policy, reversing consistent bipartisan
] commitments that for more than two centuries have earned
] our nation greatness. Jimmy Carter's recent essay. Just War - Jimmy Carter |
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| Topic: Society |
4:41 am EST, Mar 10, 2003 |
How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another -- and raising questions about whether we should. ... But somewhere along the path toward changing our daily lives, Google changed our concept of time as well. It has helped make our past -- or oddly refracted shards of it -- present and permanent. That's a radical notion for a medium usually defined by its ability to constantly update itself. ... perhaps you once went on a rant ... You may think those chapters are closed. Google begs to differ. "It's the collapse of inconvenience. It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it." "Instead of thinking, 'Was I curt last week?' I have to think about what happened when I was 17." This article was the cover story in the February 2 issue of The Boston Globe Magazine. (Why didn't I see it earlier?) A Nation of Voyeurs |
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BBC NEWS | Health | Car lovers 'see faces' in vehicles |
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| Topic: Recreation |
4:01 am EST, Mar 10, 2003 |
] The subjects viewed alternating pictures of cars and
] faces, and asked them to compare each car to the previous
] car they saw and each face to the previous face.
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] They found that the car fans used just one part of the
] brain to recognise the cars and the faces, taking just a
] fifth of a second to identify the cars. Sp, because I can indentify cars in a split second... I am slower at identifying faces. Hmmm... Is this why nerds have such poor social skills? :) As new skills are tacked on, and neural nets are configured to deal with those tasks... the performance of nets that impart existing skills suffer? Das pretty coo. BBC NEWS | Health | Car lovers 'see faces' in vehicles |
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Clinton VS. Dole: The Final Battle |
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2:46 am EST, Mar 10, 2003 |
] The retired politicians have agreed to revive the
] "Point-Counterpoint" segment on "60 Minutes,"
] television's most popular newsmagazine.
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] In the two-minute debate, the two will face off on a
] subject of their own choosing. Sunday's segment was the
] first, and Clinton chose to talk about his successor's
] proposed tax cut; Dole gets to choose the next segment.] Wow, actually looks like some interesting network TV... Clinton VS. Dole: The Final Battle |
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MemeStreams makes you smarter! |
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2:40 am EST, Mar 10, 2003 |
] This section involves two tools, one for Windows, and one
] for OSX, which allow you to select text in any
] application, hit a hot key, and receive search results
] for that text. Both tools perform Google searches, and
] both have been adapted to perform MemeStreams searches as
] well.
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] The power of these tools is that they extend searching
] such that it becomes a kind of augmented knowledge
] system. When you are reading or writing something, and
] you come upon a subject that you want more information
] about, you can get access to more information at the
] touch of a mouse. MemeStreams makes you smarter! |
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