This video has nothing directly to do with education or libraries or technology or anything else I usually prattle on about here. But as we post another lap around the track, I think we can all derive inspiration from it — whatever we’re doing to stave off ruin. Happy New Year!
My ladies and gentlemen please this CriticalCommons presentation of predigitalscholarshipdownfall to enjoy:
Kevin Kelley, Wired Magazine “Senior Maverick” or something like that – & spawner of any number of trendy Pacifica insights – invites you to map the internet! Go ahead, you live with it enough, it’s changed your life — now render its landscape. Only requirement: somewhere on the map, please designate your ‘home’. Not surprisingly, …
Are you partial to absurd lists? So is Time Magazine! This bastion of old media has been developing a “World’s Most Influential” franchise over the past few years, addressing or cultivating some mysterious need to rank Vladimir Putin against Miley Cyrus on a fuzzy scale of “influence.” You can watch a Time editor fumble for …
What did you do on your spring vacation? Me, I communed with ancestors — and not just the vividly alive ones. My mother had collected a good deal of basic facts and figures about her family and my father’s, and had fed this data into genealogical software installed on her computer. All that rich data …
Music promoters, child molesters, and now this. Rupert Murdoch’s social networking colonization, MySpace, is starting to be infiltrated by yet another band of predators. They tend to be around ninety years old, and most of them claim to be female. That ‘friend’ your sullen teen is busily adding to her MySpace collection may be none …
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It occurs to me that I haven’t highlighted pictures snapped along the way lately, and that’s just not right – it’s been a vivid if peripatetic season. Ranging over the last two months and stepping backwards chronologically, I’ve been most thankful for San Francisco: …after drinking up kulcha at the Met like a good New …
