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Comment on Shakyamuni — A Pale View of the Hill Batteries by women shaping technology · Audioblog Amelioration

women shaping technology · Audioblog Amelioration — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:30:15 +0000

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Comment on Shakyamuni — A Pale View of the Hill Batteries by Azymoth la Poubelle

Azymoth la Poubelle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:33:41 +0000

I have for long been attempting my own C.M.R. (classic mo(tor)town recording) using the steps you outline in your above journalism, semi-comfortable in knowing that urban contemporary music might result. I’ve had a little luck constructing makeshift hi-hat rigs from a nearby mobile-armour breaking yard, so far toying with a few combos of metal – copper and aluminum in large medallions cut from thin sheets, and non-anodized SUIT scaffolding for the stands. I could also work in a horn line as you mentioned for warmth. Think that would work/help?

Comment on Air by Geoff Ryman by Gerhard Kleinhans

Gerhard Kleinhans — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:14:11 +0000

I agree, Air is a truly spectacular novel. I started reading it yesterday, and had to force myself to put it down way past midnight, as I do have to work today. But I find myself unable to concentrate on anything today – Mae is haunting me and I cannot wait to get back to her. It is not that I am impatient to read how the plot develops further, but rather that I’ve fallen so in love with Mae and the village of Kizuldah, that I want to bask in their humanity all day.

I notice that several reviewers on, for example, Amazon.com state that this is not only a great Science Fiction novel, but a great novel period. I am usually the first to jump up and demand recognition for Science Fiction by insisting that the best in the genre is on par with them all. Air, however, is so good that I almost feel it will be disrespectfull towards Mae to immediately claim her as an example of the heights Science Fiction can attain. Somewhere on the first or second page Mae became alive for me, transcending not only genre, but fiction itself.

I think I’ll skip luch today and read the next chapter …

Comment on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: You!! by AppokAmame

AppokAmame — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:50:25 +0000

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Comment on Bembeya Jazz International by omar kallay

omar kallay — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:56:33 +0000

i will like to know if you have bembeya jazz live concert video for sale. i am one of ther biggest fan. please reply.thanks

Comment on Apple killed my flash drive by prince of darkness

prince of darkness — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:09:53 +0000

that’s horrible! i never realized the improper disconnect message could be serious too.

Comment on Apple killed my flash drive by teh

teh — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:48:42 +0000

have you tried reformatting it? I don’t know how to do it on PC’s but with macs there’s a program called disk utility that will let you do that. maybe.

Comment on User-generated Contentment by Mark A

Mark A — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:05:13 +0000

All good points. As usual, I overstep my bounds and start criticizing on hazy sociological grounds instead of sticking to the facts of the medium. Wasn’t in the best of moods when I wrote this rant and I think my views are loosening up.

Digg is really an interesting story. I joined up way back hoping for a more democratic/less posturing slashdot tech news aggregator. Since then it’s been able to surprise me several times with stories in a whole variety of subjects I would have never thought of before.

Digg’s democratization of the editorial process as it were has the most potential, in my opinion. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of new competition/collaboration the format fosters in the dear old guard journalism world.

Comment on User-generated Contentment by Andrew Venegas

Andrew Venegas — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:13:25 +0000

Great post, but I have to disagree about the aggregators. The reason why people should be able to subscribe to EXACTLY the information they want is the same reason markets are more efficient than artificial markets – disseminate information to the places that the market choose, and you’ll have the most efficient means of circulating ALL information.

While a story (which admittedly, I may find to be interesting) about European zipper designers won’t motivate me to forward that information to other people I HAVE INFLUENCE OVER, a story about alternative fuels may just do that trick.

The lines have recently changed (SIGNIFICANTLY) in who holds the gatekeeper role in the media – it would be naive to think that traditional journalists will still hold the same amount of INFLUENCE in a world where anyone can aggregate, disseminate knowledge, and influence peers within micro-markets.

More to the point, I believe we journalists should be embracing this new paradigm shift, and leveraging the influence we DO HAVE, concentrating it on THE STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLD, and creating deltas within the internet the connect to the main oceans (ie. Google, Ask, Amazon) of people, constantly talking and in motion. Digg, for example, has done a nice job of this. (look at the Digg front page for ways in which future gatekeepers are disseminating knowledge they feel is important.)

Comment on The Life and Times by ray

ray — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:14:15 +0000

nice website with at times beautiful word collisions…

i noticed you blurbed me in an article on another forum… (i guess that was me…?) anyway… i have some extra copies of the book ~ (aka swung dash) i put out last year, would you like one?

if interested email me, etc.

ray