The “re-” gestures—such as reblogging and retweeting—have become cultural rites of cachet in and of themselves. If you can filter through the mass of information and pass it on as an arbiter to others, you gain an enormous amount of cultural capital. Filtering is taste. And good taste rules the day: Marcel Duchamp’s exquisite filtering and sorting sensibility combined with his finely tuned taste rewrote the rules.
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LeWeb: The Sharing Economy is the Future of Business
When a new disruptive idea emerges there is always a temptation to minimize its importance. The desire to keep its impact small, to treat it as a nice side project: full of good intentions, but not really scalable to a global market or across different industries.
This temptation is well known,…
Brian’s Novel - Family Guy (by skin88p)
Stewie’s take on novel writing. Still has me crying with laughter.
The disorientation everyone blames on “information overload” may in fact have less to do with the amount of data we are being asked to process than the number of simultaneous people we are being asked to be
at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity - Lew Keilar (by HappyEndingsFF)
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Pinteresting Test
Hi all! Testing out Buddy Media using a Pinterest sapplet. Please note - this is not a real contest so you won’t win anything if you submit the form.
PS. CSS isn’t my bag, baby, so please don’t laugh too much at my lame attempt at making this look decent.
;)
I haven’t posted in a while, but I thought this was definitely worth doing.
;) Buffy ftw!
Futurist Ray Kurzweil on smartphones, AI, and the human brain
The inventor and author speaks onstage at the Techonomy conference in Tucson about his new book on human thought and the themes that stem from it. Read this article by Andrew Nusca on CNET News.
—> I cannot wait to read his book. ;)
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