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 Friday, May 30, 2003
started 5/30/2003; 7:52:59 AM - last post 5/31/2003; 1:02:36 AM
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Doc Searls - Friday, May 30, 2003 
5/30/2003; 11:52:59 AM (reads: 5089, responses: 3)
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| | That's the approximate number of AT&T telemarketing calls I've received in the last 24 hours. I'm losing track. |
| | It's also (I just discovered) the number of pounds I gained in New Yawk. Back to the old discipline... |
Blogging business
| | One of the things I've noticed is that blogging requires an abundance mentality. I've also noted that blogs encourage a culture of candor. How do you develop a culture that supports sharing? Are the cultural properties that support blogging the same ones that support building a first rate IT organization? |
| | I see a business here. Not sure what it is, but I see one. |
| | One perspective: Bizblogs are the new corporate newsletters. |
AOL+MSN=?
Duh, cont'd
| | I stupidly went back in time and originally posted the next two items to yesterday's blog by mistake. If you pointed (hardly any need) to either one, make the correction. Sorry about that. |
You read it here last
| | Waggy Dog Stories is a nice one by Paul Krugman in the NYTimes today. Here's a new initialism for ya: RIBISA: Read it before it scrolls it away. |
Funny as the hell it actually depicts
| | Andy Guthridge of Savannah, GA, is among the estimated 240 million Americans unaware of the sweeping package of civil-liberties curtailments, voting-privilege re-qualifications, and mandatory relocation of the working poor to the Dakotas. |
Frontiers of Fun
| | Earlier this week in New York we were talking about children and school and play and the pervasions of television. Somewhere in there my wife dropped a one-liner that I haven't been able to get out of my mind since: |
| | Fun is what we do for ourselves. Everything else is just entertainment. |
| | Go to the homesite - Alterfin - and click on "org" - note the title "Art & Play"- mouse and click around a bit and you'll get a good sense of how this one artist, Yariv Alter Fin, pursues the art-play connection. For further evidence, see this collection of QuickTime clips . Alter Fin even extends the art-play exploration into poetry with " This is My Voice." |
| | I shot a lot of pictures in New York, and had a good time working and hanging out there. I especially enjoyed learning about the simple yet highly subversive stuff Drazen Pantic is up to (we had long conversations over coffee at the near-perfect — the free wi-fi was down — Cafe Cafe in SoHo). On the plane coming back I had fun thinking about ways to journal up the whole excursion. Not sure what will come of it, but I'll letcha know. |
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lou josephs - Speaking of entertainment, quess who has a gig?
5/30/2003; 12:39:12 PM (reads: 406, responses: 0)
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arakasi - Re: Friday, May 30, 2003
5/30/2003; 12:50:13 PM (reads: 477, responses: 0)
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That's a very succinct way of putting something I've been noticing for a while now, and I'm glad to find I'm not the only one who's noticed it. Basically I've just been paying attention to the things I do when I have free time and I've found that some of these spontaneous (in the more general sense of "done freely and under no obligation") activities fall into two categories: the ones that wear me out and eventually bore me and make me restless and vaguely dissatisfied-feeling for a while, and the ones that make time vanish and engage me and make me feel alive and energized and alert. Examples of the first sort of activity include watching DVDs and playing video games, while writing or teaching myself some new computer thing are examples of the second.
So I just wanted to share my conclusion that the main difference here is whether or not creativity is involved. The more an activity requires me to be engaged in a creative way, the more I think the activity winds up "giving back" something to me, unlike non-creative play which just seems to take and take and take (time and energy).
I've also noticed that as time goes by I have less and less patience for non-creative entertainment and more of a need for creative fun. I used to be able to sit for hours on end in front of the game console, now I can't. I don't want to say that one way of engaging with the world is more mature than the other (though I'm tempted to), but I think it might be a natural part of psychological development to move from an infant-like, passive, expectation of gratification of pleasure to a more adult, self-motivated, creation of pleasure.
And I have to wonder if you didn't mean "the perversions of television."
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Brian - Re: 4
5/31/2003; 5:02:36 AM (reads: 523, responses: 0)
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Four? That's it? Bah! Amateur! We get that many before noon! :-)
We don't answer anything that is "Out of Area" on our caller ID anymore. I'm trying to convince my wife we don't need a land line at all -- the ratio of worthwhile calls to calls we don't answer skews way to the side of worthless.
BTW, when your phone rings, there's not really anyone on the other end -- yet. The telemarketers use predictive dialers to eliminate time "lost" to dialing, ringing, no answers, busy signals, etc. That's why there's a pause when you answer -- your call is being routed (in a second or less) to a live person. if you answer a telemarketer's call and hang up, the dialer knows you're a live number. If the number never answers, eventually you get off the rotation. For that telemarketer, at least.
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