MiscLinks

Lemurzone’s interview with Tom Matrullo, a beautiful and remarkably learned writer, is a treat.

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Peterme says: “You’ll enjoy this.” It’s called “Web Radio, Community, And Streaming Capitalism (A Brief Meditation).” Peterme is right. For example, it says:

The cultural technology of the World Wide Web is invested with all sorts of utopian and dystopian mythic narratives, from those which project a future of a revitalized, Web-based, public sphere and civil society to those which imagine the catastrophic implosion of the social into the simulated virtuality of the Web. But whether such imaginings are optimistic or foreboding, they are indications of what Robert Romanyshyn has termed the “re-enchantment of the world” through the magic of technology.

This reminds me so much of RageBoy‘s saying that through the Web we’re learning to love the world again.

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Glenn Fleishman responds to my comments about that damned NY Times article about the fall-off of interest in the Web. He says he has “no malaise because I’ve reinvented myself every year or so. I’m not in the same business I was two years ago and certainly not the one from 8 years ago.” Good point.

(I tried reinventing myself last year but ran into patent issues.)

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Chip sends us to an article in The Chicago Tribune that sites the Asia Times about the “network of multiple Caspian pipelines” the US is developing. For example, a proposed pipeline linking Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey is represented by James Baker’s law firm. Yes, that James Baker.

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I know this has already made it onto and off of the Daypop Top 40, but Mark Dionne points us to truly snarky coverage of the Oscars over at Salon. Very funny.

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Also already high in the Top 40 but well worth reading is Dan Gillmor’s piece on the journalistic “pivot point.” I get a little chill – the good kind – reading it.

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