economies, internet, language, and culture
Unemployed philosopher
It’s an Australian podcast about philosophy, the Philosopher’s Zone. I love this resurgence of public dialogue about philosophy. I’ve pointed to the Philosophy Bites podcast in the past.
I’ve wanted to put together a long response to Paul Graham’s “How to do philosophy.” It’s important to keep up the dialogue. Stay tuned for that.
Comments closedIan Roger’s of Yahoo is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it any more. He’s not going to spend any more of Yahoo’s money on Music Industry control of the user’s experience of digitial music. Roger’s piece was well timed, first Prince, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, then Oasis and Jamiroquai. The RIAA has won a lawsuit, but they’ve lost the war. This is a general truth of interaction design: inconvenience doesn’t scale. Only a small percentage of users will tolerate a high level of inconvenience and friction. The music industry has never been creative, they’ve fed on the creativity of others. Because they can’t innovate, they call their lawyers.икони
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This weekend is the beginning of San Francisco’s Open Studios. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, may I suggest you support your local artists. Buying and living with real art is one of the simple things you can do to improve the quality of your life. We all live with lots of digital artifacts— but that’s not the same as a unique piece of art. Drop by Atelier 781 and see three wonderful artists.
Comments closedI’ve finally had a Twitter moment. I’ve been exploring Twitter, trying to understand what everyone finds so fascinating. My Twitter moment was watching the stream go by, and reading Jeremy Keith’s tweet: “I’m coining the phrase: Continuous partial Christmas.” I’d just come back from Walgreen’s and seen the Christmas decorations going up right along with the Halloween costumes.
Multi-tasking is often really only continous partial attention. Retailing is now just continuous partial Christmas.
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