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Tag Archives: internet
Pipeline vs Freeway: What is Net Neutrality, Really?
Net neutrality treats the Internet as a data pipeline, akin to a water pipeline. It doesn’t discriminate between the content that flows through it. That’s all net neutrality is. But there are Republican politicians who want to monetize the Internet … Continue reading
From the Neuron to the Coffee House to the Internet: Steven Johnson’s TED Talk on How Ideas Have Sex
Great, great TED talk. From the neuronal network in your skull to the coffee house to the Internet, the idea world is rhizomatic.
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Tagged coffee, coffee houses, creativity, ideas, internet, psychology, sex, work
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Two Needles In The Global Haystack Found One Another Through The Internet
Then they started Skyping:
Are You My Missing Piece?
Steven Johnson on why the Internet-connected world may be a historic boon to human creativity and collective intelligence.
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Tagged creativity, critical thinking, dialogue, ecology, ideas, intelligence, internet
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God is Immanent Through the Internet?
That’s Jim Gilliam’s thesis. The ghost of love has infected the global machine. A rather robust form of religious humanism, I’d say. To whom much is given, etc.
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Philip Roth On The Novel Verses The Screen
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Tagged books, computers, internet, literature, novels, philip roth, poetry, screens
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What do Harvard, MIT, Coursera, and Udacity Have in Common?
Answer: ambitions for offering massively open online courses. MOOCS. That’s what they’re calling them. This is really great news, and certainly puts on display the Internet’s power for good [New York Times]: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, China, Harvard, humanity, India, internet, MIT, technology, the future
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The Google Goggle Future
A little too boy-in-a-bubble claustrophobic for me, but I suppose one would get used to it. I didn’t look at this video and say, “Wow!” (as I expected to). Instead, I felt oddly vacant afterwards, as if Google Goggle Life would … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, goggles, Google, google goggles, internet, Nietzsche, technology, the future
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A Sentence by Sentence Guide to Making a Blog Post
A brilliant deconstruction. See the full post here. Here’s how it starts: This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims … Continue reading
The Last Daily Newspaper in the United States?
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones makes a prediction: I’ll stick with 2025 for now. There may be small local papers around for longer than that, but no big city dailies. New York will be the last to go, but in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, advertising, America, death, internet, life, media, news, newspapers
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I Am a Tennis Ball of Two Minds, Pressing Against the Net
I made this image last night as an artistic representation of my lifelong and chronic Hamlet-like agnosticism: All rights reserved.
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Tagged agnosticism, art, atheism, doubt, God, Hamlet, internet, net, philosophy, psychology, skepticism, tennis
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Today’s Hot Links
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham offers an intellectual defense of the torture techniques of the Spanish Inquisition . . . more Two conservative intellectuals analyze the decline of contemporary conservatism . . . more Is the Internet making the exercise of human memory less necessary—and … Continue reading
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Together All Alone? Democratic Strategist, James Carville, on the Internet
Carville thinks that, with regard to politics, people generally use the Internet to reinforce prejudices, not to form an independent opinion. In other words, people tend to drop into the rut of following only the blogs and websites that they agree with, … Continue reading
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Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg: “The Kindle Will Change the World”
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg tries the Kindle and thinks it will mark a historic shift in print culture. Money quote: Like the Rocket e-book of 1999 (524 titles available!), it will surely draw chuckles a decade hence for its black-and-white … Continue reading
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Tagged books, gutenburg, internet, jacob weisberg, kindle, kindle 2, magazines, newspapers, print culture, technology
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The Twitter Slayers?: Will E-Readers and Russell Wilcox’s “E Ink” Save Us From the Dumbing-Down of Civilization?
Electronic media seems to be killing the book business and long-form journalism. Enter Russell Wilcox, CEO of E Ink. He is, according to Fortune magazine, perhaps the savior of the world (Jesus, step aside please). Wilcox is on a mission to literally rescue … Continue reading
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Tagged books, civilization, e ink, e-readers, gutenburg, history, internet, literature, russell wilcox, twitter
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Can Columbia’s Famed Journalism School Adjust to the Times?
With traditional newpaper journalism imploding before its competition with the Internet, New York magazine asks whether Columbia’s journalism school is imploding with it. Money quote: Part of the problem is the perception that the situation is “a zero-sum game,” as one … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, columbia j school, columbia journalism school, internet, journalism, new media, news, newspapers, Politics, writing
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Link to Poe’s “Anastatic Printing” Essay (the One Where He Supposedly “Anticipates” Blogging and the Internet)
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore posts Poe’s 1845 essay, “Anastatic Printing”, in full here. My observations here.
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Dreams of a “NEW REGIME”? Did Edgar Allan Poe Really Foresee Blogging, the Internet, and the Decline of Publishers—Or Is This Quote of His Taken Out of Context—or Even FAKE?
Andrew Sullivan today posted a striking quote from Edgar Allan Poe that seems to anticipate blogging and the Internet, and the decline of publishers! I don’t know who tipped him off to this. Did he locate it himself, or did someone … Continue reading
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