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user-directed content and the new world order.

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

I can’t really say that I’ve been following the sf-writer “pixel-stained technopeasant” kerfluffle with interest, because there isn’t much that’s -interesting- about one guy making an intemperate rant and two hundred people finding various ways to tell him he’s wrong. I do see one thin thread running through this particular intemperate rant, though, that connects [...]

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taking a moment.

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

I have been trying to figure out what to say–I’ve been trying to formulate a clear and articulate response to what happened at Virginia Tech this week. I don’t have one. What I ended up saying to my class yesterday was that I don’t know what to say, but I know that we need to [...]

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great fortune.

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

The great fortune is mine, in that I’ve been practically drowning in wonderful media lately. Some of it has been happenstance. Yesterday afternoon, for instance, I went to see The Lookout. Based on the ads I’d seen, my impression of this movie was something like “fast and flashy action movie, starring that kid from 10 [...]

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