I can’t decide if I agree or violently disagree with David Brooks in his latest column.
…there have been three epochs of intellectual affectation. The first, lasting from approximately 1400 to 1965, was the great age of snobbery. Cultural artifacts existed in a hierarchy, with opera and fine art at the top, and stripping at the [...]
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Google Reader fail
After spending the morning scrolling through my feeds in Google Reader, I realized that, out of thousands of posts that were written in the last week or so, I was only interested in reading a handful. The signal to noise ration is disturbingly out of whack.
This has been the pattern for the last month or [...]
Busy-ness is not depth
When I first discovered the enormous mass of online information and social connections lying beneath the surface of my seemingly tranquil life, I got pretty obsessed with the internet. But it seemed like nothing I could do could get me to that far-off, ill-defined place in which I’d achieve informational nirvana: all of my feeds [...]
Changing the Rules
Day Two (for me) of Netroots Nation and I’m a bit fuzzier-headed than I was yetserday, thanks to free Chimays at the HuffPost/GQ party last night and an unspecified amount of beers afterwards.
But I woke up here at a panel on health care and the web. Melinda Gibson from Health Care for America Now just [...]
The iPhone Changes the World?
I just posted a bit of a rant at the Huffington Post. It begins:
I can be a pain in the butt when it comes to Apple naysaying, and I could be accused of being an iPhone-owning, Macbook-tapping, iTunes-downloading hypocrite, but every time Apple launches a new marketing blitz we endure an exhausting parade of claims [...]
Fund the Journos!
The inimitable and inspiring David Cohn, who first made his name as Jay Rosen’s right-hand man over at NewAssignment.Net, is going live with his new project, Spot.us (he pronounces it “spot us,” not “spot dot u-s”).
David earned the congratulations and envy of thousands of us when he was awarded more than $300,000 by the Knight [...]
While I wait for my flight
Yesterday I had the chance to see John McCain at a MTV and MySpace co-sponsored event in Manchester, NH (liveblogging and coverage here and here). These events are pretty much updates of the old townhall “boxers or briefs” TV forums MTV put on in the ’90s, with a really innovative use of the web.
Anyway, [...]
techPresident video experiment #3
I’m working on a new approach for our techPresidentTV videos. Here’s my first stab:
I’m hoping to have more time to add an intro and outro and more content to future videos.
