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Monday, December 16, 2002
Off the road 
| | Two hours away from the Creative Commons thing, and it's still looking nasty. |
Redisseminations
| | I remember, when I was a philosophy major back somewhere in the Paleocene, some old German guy making a distinction between der alte Wittgenstein und der neue Wittgenstein. Since AKMA mentions Wittgenstein on his blog, I'll use this obscure reference to note the passing of der alte AKMA blog, and the arrival of der neue AKMA blog. |
| | The good reverend has been at work on some interesting stuff, which I'll point to when a six year old isn't tugging on my pants wanting me to help finish trimming the tree. |
Blown out
| | I'm looking here, and here and here and here and... I thinking that driving 400 miles through rain and 30-60mph winds isn't a good idea. Accidents are likely; and even if I'm not in one, the chance of being held up by one is high. In the most accident-prone places, there are no alternate routes. |
| | So I'm going to stay put. Have fun, everyb ody. |
Mars is ready. Commence habitation.
| | There seems to be this highly vocal contingent of bloggers. Oh they're nice enough — until you offend their smarmy, alan alda/gloria steinem/woodstockian sensibilities. That's right — these folks (you know who you are) are inexorably stuck in either A)1968 or B)some bad new age seminar. So, just for the record, let's review this little bugger we call the internet: |
| | If, Larry Lessig is right (as he recently alleged), and the NET IS NEUTRAL, then it has absolutely no moral imperative to: |
| | - increase the peace, love, harmony and economic and social justice on the planet
- help you "find yourself" (how hard is that?!)
- explore more deeply the beauty that is dialogue (i think i'm gonna throw up)
- fight the power/stick it to da man/whatever
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| | Might i remind you that the true beauty of the internet is in the pornography, the capitalism, the conflict and dark corners of the human soul. So would you PUH-LEASE go back to watching your Bill Moyer's Joseph Campbell specials and leave the rest of us alone. Jesus Christ! |
| | Bottom Line: thinking the interent should be some tool for helping us all get along a little better amounts (at the end of the day) to the same kind of draconian thinking that the worst upholders of copyright expansion subscribe to. Its a tool for human society — which is ugly, messy, beautiful, offensive, disgusting, lovely, awe-inspiring and about making money (at least sometimes). |
| | Well, I guess I'm one of those NewAgers, but I'm an OldAger too, and the crank in me agrees completely. |
| | The Net is a new world. You can do all kinds of stuff on it, and with it. ALL kinds. Exclude nothing, because it'll happen. Worlds are like that. |
| | About making money. Ever asked yourself what the business model of rocks is? Of dirt? Of trees? Of rotted plants? Of reproductive urges? Last I looked the building, concrete, lumber, oil and porn businesses were doing pretty well. The difference with the Net is: its resources are infinite. They don't need to be renewed, because they're not scarce. You mine and harvest them by processes like duplication. Take all you want; just don't buy the illusion that you "own" any of it. You don't, any more than you own the air you breathe or the jillion-ton wedge of rock and lava between your yard and the core of the Earth. Deep down, it's a commie kinda place. Deal with it. |
| | Think of the Net as a laboratory for human nature, because it's the first world entirely made by human beings. And as Craig Burton says, we've only begun to terraform it. It's like we created a parallel planet, occupying the same space and time as the one we already inhabit. We're there already and have to make the most of it. Including the fact that some of our founding dreams were wet. |
| | [Later...] Eric pushes back, basically laying out exceptions to my descriptions of the Net's character. More later. Meanwhile, re-read what Britt Blaser's Bloom on the Peach. It's related. |
Be there then
| | I'll be at both. I could hardly not go, it was explained to me by somebody or other, after my face graced the CC home page for the last few weeks. |
| | It's gone now, and there doesn't seem to be a link from the site; but it's still up, so that's cool. (By the way, the media whore t-shirt, by the way, is courtesy of Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin.) |
The continuing end of badness as usual
Beyond couch potato farming
| | I'm too tired or dumb to get what this is about, but I trust it's cool cuz' the Head Lemur pointed me at it. Seems to be saying "consumers" are plankton or something. Whatever. I'll read it later. Meanwhile, any stick that whups "consumers" is a good stick, in my book. |
| | Meanwhile, I'm just wondering... Why would a paper published on the Web include so few Web-published sources? |
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