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| Sunday, April 22, 2001 |
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Big Eyeball is positioning you: James Gleick on being connected. A sample:
The network knows where we are. The network is there, all around us, a ghostly electromagnetic presence, pervasive and salient, a global infrastructure taking shape many times faster than the interstate highway system or the world¹s railroads. This is different from the radio-spectrum Babel that defined the 20th century: the broadcast era. We aren¹t expected merely to tune in and listen. This network is push and pull, give and take. It broadens our reach. If we lock our keys in the car, the network can unlock it for us from thousands of miles away‹just a few bytes through the ether.
Marvelous stuff, as usual. Gleick is an enviably good writer.
You want eyeballs? Try these. Our four-year old, Jeffrey, explains his occasionally disobedient nature this way: "I have brains in my eyes. They make me do those things. I'll outgrow them, like baby teeth. Then they'll go to God." The upshot: when he makes a Big Mistake, he'll often say "It's just the brains in my eyes." For me this somehow relates to Eric Norlin's latest, which smites the eyeball-chasers thusly:
Take your trusty Louisville Slugger into work tomorrow. Stroll happily into the cavernous space containing the software program that puts ³Dear <insert name>² into your email newsletter‹and begin swinging.
Back on the air with Radio, on the laptop. Nice. Still adjusting, though. I screwed up Friday a bit by editing without it. Ah well: learn by digging...
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