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Dirty TED

I’ll admit I have a particularly New England reaction to the TED conference, some kind of self-satisfied but silent disapproval of the idea of a conference of special people all listening and applauding each other.
And I feel I should be invited, because I’m a genius.
But more imporantly, no one told me Mike Rowe was speaking* [...]

Jeepers Creepers

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 [...]

I Zimbra

Structure in blogs is overrated. Welcome to dada surrealist manfiestic future of bloggo blum!

Goodbye Sister Disco

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 [...]

Doing.

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Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto.