In high school we learned about Ypres. Heard of it? (One thing that I’ll say for my small town high school — we got EXCELLENT educations, probably the equivalent of what most people walk away from liberal arts colleges with. Don’t know why we had such a density of fantastic teachers in a little, dry [...]
Structure in blogs is overrated. Welcome to dada surrealist manfiestic future of bloggo blum!
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Posted 03 March 2009
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What are you doing?
Why are you doing it?
And how?
What am I talking about?
Two articles. Sterling’s (first), rant about the web 2.0 thing. Not fair to call it a rant. He paraphrases Kant, Marx, probably Debord, and I don’t know who else… this piece needs rereading. Because he’s saying something.
Second link: a dissertation. I think it [...]
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Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto.
I have a headache. I’m seeing an uptick in ukulele postings on the internet. I read too many of the wrong feeds. I have things to say that are perhaps politically unsound about the industry, and need a long weekend staring at rocks or something.
I don’t want a Kindle but I think book worship [...]