Sneaking into 2009
It’s that time of year again. We will bravely sneak into 2009 and offer our predictions for the New Year with a quick look back at where we scored and where we failed with last year’s Magic Eight Ball.
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The Panopticonic Twitter Review
Twitter is the most Panopticonic method of self-regulating your own incarceration: You’re basically talking to yourself out loud without any real context because you’re typing; but when a friend challenged me — nay, DARED ME — to try Twitter: “How can you hate it if you never tried it?” The gauntlet was thrown, the face was slapped, the dare: Accepted! You can see my Twitter homepage below: http://twitter.com/BolesBlogs
Why the Wet Why Resonates the Human Condition More than the Dry What
In my article — Blogging the Bodily Fluids Stream — I argued action streams like Twitter had no place on a blog because content, not diary mapping, should be the business and purpose of the human condition. I mentioned a few Six Apart employees — the makers of Movable Type — as examples of the decay of blogging for content. Anil Dash, one of those I mentioned, wrote a fine response on his blog to my article — Actions are the Body Language — where he argues what you do on the web is important and should rightly be published for public consumption.
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The Mechanization of Memory
As we are swallowed by the technology we create, we are losing our emotional tether to history as human memory is mechanized into the ether of our invisible material world.
Trilling Twitter and Tumblr
I have looked at Twitter and Tumblr — and I confess I do not understand the fervent joy of their technological pull.
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