I picked up the wired issue recently and the thing that struck me about all the related "remix" articles was their overwhelmingly positive tone. Nary a negative aspect was attached to this phenomenon.
When we have a culture that continually recombines itself without providing new grist for the mill I fear that the cultural soup will get thinner and thinner and more unpalatable.
Is the future destined to just be about remixing the remixes?
It seems pretty damn tangential to me also but since I run Not Proud I'm about to complain.
This is the second time we've received, what I like to call, a glancing blow from slashdot. Even a small mention in a comment will get you like half a million pageviews that day. I shudder to think what a direct hit from slashdot might do. Do servers feel pain?
I downloaded the PDF and so far it's great but I would rather gargle with thumbtacks than read 200 plus pages online. The computer is much better suited to short attention span reading. Anything over 5 pages and I'm ctrl+P.
It's definitely more cost effective for publishers to produce PDFs than paper books but essentially the implied savings just get transferred to whatever company you presently work for because we're all just abusing the company printer.
The dream of electronic literature goes in the same heap as the idea of the paperless office. Digital media has not eliminated the need for paper but rather aided the ease of distribution and reproduction of data and lead to an increase in the production of mindless documentation and other worthless effluvia.
The digitization of information has unfortunately lead to a marked increase in our appetite for paper.
It's interesting to see a certain denial of reality about the growing popularity of firefox in the media. I've seen quite a few articles (probably based on the same bit of WebSideStory data) claiming that firefox has triumpantly taken 5% of the browser market.
I work for a fairly big software company and our numbers are consistently above 20%. I also run a confession site (notproud.com) that is scoring numbers above 35% at present.
I haven't really seen any competitive browser stats like that since...well too frickin long.
Five percent seems like an entirely unrealistic view of firefox's place in the market. Anybody else care to share some anecdotal browser data?
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The headline was the highlight of the article and it's a pretty bland headline.
I picked up the wired issue recently and the thing that struck me about all the related "remix" articles was their overwhelmingly positive tone. Nary a negative aspect was attached to this phenomenon.
When we have a culture that continually recombines itself without providing new grist for the mill I fear that the cultural soup will get thinner and thinner and more unpalatable.
Is the future destined to just be about remixing the remixes?
It seems pretty damn tangential to me also but since I run Not Proud I'm about to complain.
This is the second time we've received, what I like to call, a glancing blow from slashdot. Even a small mention in a comment will get you like half a million pageviews that day. I shudder to think what a direct hit from slashdot might do. Do servers feel pain?
I downloaded the PDF and so far it's great but I would rather gargle with thumbtacks than read 200 plus pages online. The computer is much better suited to short attention span reading. Anything over 5 pages and I'm ctrl+P.
It's definitely more cost effective for publishers to produce PDFs than paper books but essentially the implied savings just get transferred to whatever company you presently work for because we're all just abusing the company printer.
The dream of electronic literature goes in the same heap as the idea of the paperless office. Digital media has not eliminated the need for paper but rather aided the ease of distribution and reproduction of data and lead to an increase in the production of mindless documentation and other worthless effluvia.
The digitization of information has unfortunately lead to a marked increase in our appetite for paper.
People have got to be warned. This one could actually cause a lot of damage.
It's interesting to see a certain denial of reality about the growing popularity of firefox in the media. I've seen quite a few articles (probably based on the same bit of WebSideStory data) claiming that firefox has triumpantly taken 5% of the browser market. I work for a fairly big software company and our numbers are consistently above 20%. I also run a confession site (notproud.com) that is scoring numbers above 35% at present. I haven't really seen any competitive browser stats like that since...well too frickin long. Five percent seems like an entirely unrealistic view of firefox's place in the market. Anybody else care to share some anecdotal browser data?