It’s almost intimidating to have someone be that attentive to you.
Tag: internet
Post-industrial creatures of an information economy, we increasingly sense that accessing media is what we do. We have become terminally self-conscious. There is no such thing as simple entertainment. We watch ourselves watching. We watch ourselves watching Beavis and Butt-head, who are watching rock videos. Simply to watch, without the buffer of irony in place, might reveal a fatal naiveté.
Remembering a Relationship, One Chat at a Time – GOOD
Y’know, just in case you need to read something depressing this morning. Previously in morning heartbreak.
Most of my days involve four- and five-hour stretches of what I would characterize as dicking around on the Internet.
Jesse Thorn. (via)
n+1: Sad as Hell
Tabloids are only interesting as long as you’re always reading them; let your checkout-line-skimming lapse for a week and the thought of celebrity gossip seems pointless.
Emphasis Update and Source – NYTimes.com
This is really cool. (via)
“Sunset Portraits, From 8,462,359 Sunset Pictures on Flickr, 12/21/10”. A photo illustration by Penelope Umbrico for The New York Times. I’ve probably become inured to news images, but this was one of those rare ones that stopped me in my tracks. If there were a print of this, I’d probably buy it. Cyberspace When You’re Dead.
‘I took my kids offline’ | The Guardian
Upon receipt of Maushart’s out-of-office email stating that she was no longer online, many of them assumed that she’d had a nervous breakdown.
‘I took my kids offline’ | The Guardian
Upon receipt of Maushart’s out-of-office email stating that she was no longer online, many of them assumed that she’d had a nervous breakdown.
A Death on Facebook – Magazine – The Atlantic
“Well in those days the internet was in black and white. It was only on for three hours a day. We used to get all dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it. We’d log onto letsbuyit.com and order a gas mask and a pound of tripe. Then when we’d finished with the computer we’d switch it off and we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
What people today are beginning to realize is what became obvious to us back then—the important correlation is the one between familiarity and value, not scarcity and value.
John Perry Barlow, lyricist for The Grateful Dead in Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – The Atlantic. See also John Perry Barlow in Wired, March 1994.
This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post – Coyote Crossing
This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online. For some people the disintegration between these two realms marks all that is wrong with the Internet: It is the high-priced waster of time. It breeds trifles. On the contrary, I cherish a good wasting of time as a necessary precondition for creativity, but more importantly I believe the conflation of play and work, of thinking hard and thinking playfully, is one the greatest things the Internet has done.
One result of the internet, I think, is that it makes almost everyone smart more eclectic, whether in terms of substance or presentation.
The End of Solitude
Online monoculture and the end of the niche. In summary: online recommendation systems tend to offer a more diverse selection, but tends to reward fewer products more greatly than others:
In Internet World the customers see further, but they are all looking out from the same tall hilltop. In Offline World individual customers are standing on different, lower, hilltops. They may not see as far individually, but more of the ground is visible to someone. In Internet World, a lot of the ground cannot be seen by anyone because they are all standing on the same big hilltop.
I wish I followed the math better. Interesting stuff in the comments, too.
The Web that Wasn’t: Alex Wright talks about precursors and alternatives to the web we know.
This is exactly the sort of thing where Wikipedia dominates: a fresh, current article on internet phenomena and a list of internet memes. Take that, Britannica!
Mark Larson 