Archive for December, 2006
identity 2.0
via Craig Bellamy, I came across Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0, which has a pretty interesting presentation by Hardt (2005) about his concept of identity 2.0 for his company Sxip. You should watch it. He’s onto something.
Hardt notes that verbal identity is “what I say about me” and “what others say about me.” Then, [...]
do you see what i see?
via jill/txt: snap.com offers code for your blog that brings up pop-up images for links, so that you can see what sites look like before clicking. rad, huh?
I’m not sure how much I should trust snap.com (who knows what interests are served [theirs] by them having my information [email and blog url] and the information [...]
46 pages!
so, I’ve got 46 pages written for my thesis. Everything is very rough and disjointed, but I feel somewhat accomplished. Back to work.
a room of his own
It’s hard for me to read and write a lot when I’m at my parents’ house. I had expected to be able to retreat to my bedroom to work, but I found when I got home that my bedroom has been taken over by my mom’s quilting equipment. I’ve either been sleeping on the couch [...]
thesis update from the land of God
I am sitting in the Mt. Ayr Public Library. This is the smallest library I’ve ever been in, but at least they have wireless internet. It’s also the loudest library I’ve ever been in. Jesus! these old ladies just won’t quit talking! There are two teenage girls sharing my table who have complained to each [...]
what is a human?
Ruben points out this BBC article which reports that “Robots could one day demand the same citizen’s rights as humans, according to a study by the British government”:
[...]The paper which addresses Robo-rights, titled Utopian dream or rise of the machines? examines the developments in artificial intelligence and how this may impact on law and politics.
The [...]
save net neutrality
AlterNet article on transgender culture and zines
This is pretty interesting
McCain wants blogs to censor their comments…
…or face a huge fine.
Think Progress is reporting that McCain is sponsoring a bill that stipulates:
Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.“
Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers [...]
debate competitions changing…
This LA Times article is quite interesting. Jim at Blogora asks if this new debate is a good or bad thing. I might say both, but I’m going to lean towards good.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
In recent years, renegade rhetoricians from Cal State Fullerton and other underdog schools have clobbered debate kingpins from Harvard [...]
