January 2010
10 posts
“We learned about computers from the inside out. Many of us became interested in...”
– Steven Frank, “I need to talk to you about computers…”, 29 January 2010 http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been
Jan 29th
“If you grab that stuff are you a criminal? Should you end up lying in the dirt...”
– Rebecca Solnit, “Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster”, Guernica Magazine, 21 January 2010 http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/1514/when_the_media_is_the/
Jan 22nd
“But aid workers joked that the real tsunami was followed by another tsunami — of...”
– David Case, “Haiti: Help with money, not stuff”, Global Post, 13 January 2010 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/haiti/100113/haiti-earthquake-aid
Jan 18th
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“We are in the process of building one vast global computer, which could easily...”
– Stewart Brand, “Written on the Wind”, Civilization Magazine, November 01998 http://archive.longnow.org/www.longnow.org/01999-02005/10klibrary/library.htm
Jan 15th
“In the end, what cross-cultural psychiatrists and anthropologists have to tell...”
– Ethan Watters, “The Americanization of Mental Illness”, The New York Times Magazine, 8 January 2010 (online) and 10 January 2010 (print) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html
Jan 13th
“Critics will tell you that with all of your clicking and linking, your blogging...”
– Matthew Battles, “Commonplacing & the modern longue durée”, Library ad infinitum, 23 December 2009. http://mbattles.posterous.com/commonplacing-and-the-modern-longue-duree
Jan 12th
“There’s a lot of this nerdy wordiness about. Jaunty anthologies of archaic...”
– David Mitchell, “Only a poltroon despises pedantry”, The Observer, 3 January 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/03/david-mitchell-english-language-grammar
Jan 6th
“Criticizing the “banality” of Facebook conversation is as trite and...”
– Cory Doctorow, “How to say stupid things about social media”, The Guardian, 5 January 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/social-media-cory-doctorow
Jan 5th
“It’s early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words...”
– Jaron Lanier, “You Are Not A Gadget”, Penguin (2010), front cover.
Jan 5th
“Community activism … can be wearying and frustrating and comes with little...”
– Ally Fogg, “I’ve changed my mind about local activism”, The Guardian, 25 December 2009 (online) / p. 28, 1 January 2010 (print) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/25/goodbye-noughties-local-activism
Jan 2nd