Keith Olbermann and the violent cosmology of the new news- June 16, 2008 The New Yorker has a very good warts_and_all profile of Keith Olbermann, my favorite op-edivist. Good quote from Tom Brokaw about the transformation of news by the mashup of traditional channels, cable, and new media:We are creating a new universe, and it has all kinds of new laws and science and physics coming into play as well, in this information world. And youve got planets out there colliding with each other, new life forms taking shape; others have drifted too close to the sun, and theyve.http://weblogsky.com/2008/06/keith_olbermann_and_the_violen.html No more lost cities- June 14, 2008 Regardless who "invented the Internet," William Gibson invented cyberspace. He's still thinking about the digital realm, which he says "is inherently porous."These days we're all coming to the attention of the authorities as a matter of course. But the really new thing is that the authorities are coming to our attention. It's more difficult for authorities to keep their secrets. it's working both ways. We live in the era of the leak, the document that doesn't get wiped off the hard drive. That..http://weblogsky.com/2008/06/no_more_lost_cities.html Newborn- June 5, 2008 Newborn is an intervention that "examines how multiple translocal networks constitute themselves in the common locla space of Zurich and how they develop specific forms of visibility and invisibility within the public space," according to Felix Stalder's email to nettime-l. The original meaning of the NEWBORN sign will be evident primarily to migrants from the Balkans. Many of them were either present in person, or via the media, when an almost identical sculpture was unveiled at the Mother.http://weblogsky.com/2008/06/newborn.html Conversation with Clay Shirky- June 4, 2008 Clay Shirky and I are having a conversation on the WELL. If you're not a WELL member, but you have a commment or question, send email to inkwell (at) well.com. I highly recommend Clay's new book:http://weblogsky.com/2008/06/conversation_with_clay_shirky.html |