Fascinating insight on the 21st century and the interview in reporting and writing from a Q & A with Chuck Klosterman: I feel like in general that the art of the interview has been eroded by the rise of the Internet. It’s taken away the necessity of [doing them] but it still seems to meContinue reading “Internet erodes the interview: Chuck Klosterman”
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Exposure can kill you: Slaves of the Internet, Unite!
Sometimes a headline is enough, but this op-ed — Slaves of the Internet, Unite! — by Tim Kreider makes so much sense, it's sad that (as he more or less admits) he won't be heeded. Quote of the weekend: …the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering itContinue reading “Exposure can kill you: Slaves of the Internet, Unite!”
Soon to be a major motion picture: Shodan
The story is astonishing/alarming, but the background mythology is downright scary: The idea for Shodan came to John Matherly in 2003, when he was a teenager attending community college in California. Obsessed with the digital world, he named his project after a malevolent character in a video game called System Shock II. The character, Sentient Hyper-Optimized DataContinue reading “Soon to be a major motion picture: Shodan”
“I misquoted the Bible on national television”: Coleman Barks
Some of the best of our literary reviews have had the most trouble putting up a website. Perhaps the nature of literature — a desire to create something out of nothing that can last — is opposed to the nature of the web. The Internet never forgets — for better or worse. Human memory worksContinue reading ““I misquoted the Bible on national television”: Coleman Barks”
No editors? No problem! Except that…
France's most famous intellectual revealed to be inept Googler. From the Times of London: When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation. To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply byContinue reading “No editors? No problem! Except that…”
“Information Wants to be Free”…
Apparently at the first Hackers' Convention, way back in l984, Stewart Brand declared that "Information wants to be free." It's a great phrase, unless you are a writer, a musician, an artist, or another "content provider," in which case the phrase is a ticket to poverty. The correct translation is, I believe, "people are freakingContinue reading ““Information Wants to be Free”…”
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