February 2009
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“Media producers worry about losing control. The reality is that they have...”
– Henry Jenkins makes sense talking about how, in order to spread, content has to give up control over its message. “The loss of the producer’s control over meaning is a precondition for the video’s circulation. When people feel that they can have a stake in the content, when it can...
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“It’s not enough to just allow negative feedback on your blog or website, you...”
– Twenty Theses for Government 2.0, Cluetrain Style
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“I want to cry when someone types something in all caps. Because I’m case...”
– Doug Benson (via soupsoup)
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“She said out of pity for him, “I shall give you a kiss if you like,” but though...”
– J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy. (via iguessthatscool)
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“twittering is for lonely losers who have no one to text message when they are...”
– Hipster Runoff
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“But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose...”
– David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement Speech at Kenyon College (via tmblg)
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Watchlivejamie: time-lapse.fr posted a time-lapse video of snails in his yard. “Every evening, after my automatic water system stops, all the snails who where hidden behind flowers go out and go on the grass to make parties, eating and drinking!”
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How the Crash Will Reshape America - The Atlantic →
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“There is a tension between that amorphous original idea and the very real thing...”
– The creative process, “Awareness of Audience:” the explicit
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In defense of readers
Reading is a necessarily solitary experience—like dying, everyone reads alone—but over the centuries readers have learned how to cultivate that solitude, how to grow it in the least hospitable environments. An experienced reader can lose herself in a good text with anything short of a war going on (and, sometimes, even then)—the horticultural equivalent of growing orchids in a desert.
Despite the...
“When psychologists say “most people” they usually mean “most of the two dozen...”
– The Moral Instinct (via iamdanw)
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‘Gold for the Price of Silver’: Kings...
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Egregious: \i-ˈgrē-jəs\ (adjective)
I just used this is a work-related email and thought you might like to too. It means, “conspicuously bad.”
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“Listen, love. It’s complete crap, and you should put it in a drawer and...”
– Poet Craig Raine to his friend Ian McEwan about his novel, Comfort of Strangers
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Resource: All the best articles about the Obama... →
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Feist: Inside and Out. Nice huh?
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