The New Atlantis – The Age of Egocasting – Christine Rosen TiVos and iPods will never destroy us. But our romance with technologies of personalization has partially fulfilled Krutch’s prediction. We haven’t become more like machines. We’ve made the machines more like us. In the process we are encouraging the flourishing of some of our […]

Obituary: Lucien Carr, Beat Generation catalyst and journalist: Lucien Carr, one of the founders – and one of the last survivors – of the Beat Generation of poets and writers, although one who never wrote poetry or novels, died on Friday. ———– one of the last….. of the beats….

Chris’s Blog: Reflections on Internet governance and the international system ——— this sort of fits with much of my thinking, though my argument is a bit stronger in regards to the powers of code and the power of otherness, i think.

Wilson Quarterly @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Counting everything but its huge endowment holdings, Higher Ed, Inc., is a $250 to $270 billion business—bigger than religion, much bigger than art. And though no one in the business will openly admit it, getting into college is a cinch. The problem, of course, is […]

A plumbing parable: My kitchen sink has a problem. Something has broken inside the Moen faucet, so that the handle is loose and only marginally effective. I’m thinking I should run down to the hardware store and get a new faucet assembly, and get under the sink with a pipe wrench. It shouldn’t be too […]

Technology and time poverty: This article from Pacific Northwest Magazine at modern work life and how technology, urgency and multi-tasking are eroding much needed focus and contemplation. It’s a good article that raises several key points ultimately questioning if anything is actually getting more efficient and productive. “Suppose you tape two empty toilet-paper rolls and […]

Technology and time poverty: This article from Pacific Northwest Magazine at modern work life and how technology, urgency and multi-tasking are eroding much needed focus and contemplation. It’s a good article that raises several key points ultimately questioning if anything is actually getting more efficient and productive. “Suppose you tape two empty toilet-paper rolls and […]

Jenny Holzer’s Project: please change beliefs… ——— gotta love jenny holzer’s art.

From ivory tower to academic sweatshop ….: From ivory tower to academic sweatshop. After a few dot-com-era bumps, online education is back and bigger than ever. But so is corporate influence and bottom-line pressure. [Salon.com] ——- this is worth a read……