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Tuesday, November 13 2001
Official contradictions 
| | Now officials are saying that yesterday's plane crash in New York was probably an accident: a "catastrophic engine event." Two problems: a) there's no precedent for it (that according to ABC's lead guy on the case, who is also an active 747 pilot); and b) other officials have been putting the country on high alert for terrorist acts and telling us to watch for anything "out of the ordinary," even while we go about our normal lives. |
| | Mother Jones used to have great tagline: "You trust your mother. But you cut the cards." That's what we have to do here. |
| | I'm inclined to believe the officials on the plane crash case. But I'm also inclined not to rule out the kind of possibilities that the other officials tell us to watch out for. |
Free the Blog X,000,000
| | Meanwhile, Steve MacLaughlin reports in Saltire on Operation Enduring Blogging (which I think is over now, since the innocents are coming out of their caves). |
JOHO mojo
| | David Weinberger is out with the Latest JOHO, this time taking on the impotent (or at least hyperblah) Liberty Alliance as well as Microsoft on the matter of Identity: |
| | ...we should keep in mind that what's good for identity may be bad for self. "Identity" is a quasi-legal term that lets your virtual transactions be tied back to your real-world self: the person who just ordered the bootylicious skin creme was born in a particular year at a particular locale, lives at a particular street address, and has a particular credit card number. We want to have one identity on the Web while we are out constructing many selves ‹ the sage on one discussion list, the wise-ass in a chat room, and the killing machine in a Quake III fragfest. Insofar as we think our playful Web selves can be tied back to our legally-binding identity, our Web selves will be inhibited, chagrined or even rather ashamed of themselves. Identity is grown up; Web-self is childlike. Identity is superego; Web-self is id. Identity is business; Web-self is play. Identity is physics; Web-self is art. |
| | His Web-self artfully ads, |
| | Let's be thankful that so far Microsoft is only threatening to own our identities. When it launches a product called Microsoft SoulServer that talks about managing our Web selves, it will truly be time to flee. |
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