December 2010
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“Jim and Della live their lives with such a sense of humor (O. Henry’s wit is...”
– - from “The Gift of ‘The Gift of the Magi’” in Fast Company
Nice piece, pointing us, once again, at the gift of giving.
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More relevant than ever, in this economy—
"Do you remember the Turing Test?" →
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“Networks don’t require the whole person, only a narrow piece. If, on the other...”
– John Taylor Gatto
From Caterina’s notes from Dumbing Us Down John Taylor Gatto
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And this one too:
“A community is a place in which people face each other over time in all their human variety: the good parts, bad parts, and all the rest. Such places promote the...
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“In terms of internet research, multi-sited ethnography – in particular Marcus’s...”
– Walker, Dana M. (2010) The Location of Digital Ethnography, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (via dan3)
Tricia, reblogging this for your research as well as mine—
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“When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first...”
– Ernest Hemingway on the merits of getting up early. (via ideas are awesome)
yes. In related news: I am writing again.
The New Inquiry: Coldness, Cruelty and the Status... →
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“Television’s artifice no longer mediates: in order to for us to be entertained now, someone has to do something to us, hurt us or praise us, talk about us or leave us. This need to be done to, to be acted upon, is masochism. Reality television was sadism….
Slavin, reblogging this for you.
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