Posted on Thursday, 17 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
From kanyelicio.us
Obama was right, but this is funny.
Sam Leith writes for the Guadian: “West had launched a “meme”, a viral joke that proliferates and mutates on the web. Older ones include the lolcats (photographs of cats with deliberately misspelled cutesie captions on them); more recent ones include the Downfall pastiches, in which the subtitles of the Hitler film are rewritten to show the Führer raging about Chelsea signings and the difficulties of remortgaging. Fast becoming part of the cultural landscape, memes are sort of jokes and sort of catchphrases, but they also take in film clips, cartoons, photographs, mash-ups and icons. The best way to think of them is perhaps as cyber graffiti; it would not even be stretching things to say they are a modern web version of “found art”.”
Posted on Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Naomi, My friend from way back in Evergreen State College days on the student newspaper, launched Naomi’s Noggin News — “My Meningioma and its Future Demise” — to keep friends and family updated about her battle against a brain tumor, or, rather a sphenoorbital meningioma. She underwent brain surgery yesterday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and has been pronounced by doctors today to be in stable condition, which is why I can put this in the “good things” category on my blog here. Congratulations, Naomi, and I hope the road to full recovery is speedy and smooth.
About a quarter of newspapers remain in “the dark ages” according to Silicon Alley Insider (see bottom bar for “none at this time”). But with current layoffs and consolidations being what they are, the question may well be, how much is there to share?
“The American Press Institute asked 2,400 newspaper executives if their papers “provide access to stories or information such as sports scores, headlines, stock quotes, etc.,” via Twitter, Facebook, Email alerts, Mobile/PDA, YouTube, Kindle, Flickr, e-readers, etc., and told them to “check all that apply.”
As the chart below shows, a whopping 24% of all respondents answered “None at this time.” Bizarre.”
Posted on Monday, 14 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
This blog is yet again getting short shrift as my online wanderings are keeping me distracted elsewhere. Mostly I’ve been spending my scant “extra” time over at The Committee To Protect Bloggers as the earstwhile custodian of that bastion of freedom on the webosphere. Do check it out. We’ve made some great strides since its death was prematuraly announced earlier this summer.
We relaunched the site a month ago with a brand new design based on TypographicWP. We’ve also been able to assist in a string of projects about blogging, appearing in an episode of Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post, a Vietnamese language VOA radio program and had a guest commentator spot on Australia’s Open Forum.
Posted on Monday, 7 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
