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| Saturday, January 19, 2002 |
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What happens if you put spam in a Cuisinart? 
| | I just did and the results are here. |
Blogcano
| | The mainstream press — in the U.S. at least — seems to give a shit about the volcano in the congo. |
| | So let's blog it, shall we? |
| | Starting with Bits, where there's a bunch of links. |
| | Here are some more, all geophysical: |
Wish I was too
| | Dan's blogging from Jerry's retreat in New York. |
Holy shit, Hatman!
| | I've been getting emails left and right about reports that AOL is in negotiations to buy Red Hat. |
| | A very wise friend just wrote me an email suggesting that the whole thing is just a ruse to extract better licensing terms from Microsoft for Windows Media or something. |
| | You'll know it's true if AOL suddenly drops everything with a Linux taint (e.g. Mozilla development) in order to do some kind of deal with Microsoft. |
Everwhat
| | Many years ago my oldest son had a friend whose nickname was "What?" — because that was his response to everything everybody else ever said. But it wasn't an empty-minded response. It expressed a combination of curiousity and distraction. He was a very curious, very smart kid. |
| | I hadn't thought much about this guy until I read Mike's Blogging for Pleasure post. I think Mike is right on all counts, but that there are still other reasons people blog. The big one is what Michael Polanyi called heuristic passions. In other words, the urge to know. Intellectual curiousity. Polanyi believed that intellectual passions were no less powerful, and far more civilizing, than those for sex or food. |
| | In the intellectual domain, we feed each other. In cruder terms, we turn each other on and get each other off. |
| | Blogging for me is mostly a matter of discovery and curiousity. Maybe that is what makes it different than capital-J journalism. If I want to compose a finished set of findings and opinions, I'll produce an essay, a column or a book. If I put it here, it isn't done. |
| | What I say here is mostly a combination of thinking out loud and sharing what I know. Or, to use a favorite term of Chris Locke's (one I learned from him, in fact), vetting. What I do here a lot of the time (and Mike does almost all the time, which is why he's so provocative and valuable) is vet stuff. To vet, Websters says, is "to subject to expert appraisal or correction." |
| | I also don't think it's just coincidental that the software Dave Winer writes today evolved from earlier works called Think Tank and MORE. Much of what we call thinking — also writing — is what we vet to ourselves. |
| | With blogging we do it together. |
| | Yeah, it's not the only thing we do. Lots of blogging is jerking off too. And so what? It's a big Web. |
| | But without the will to say What? it wouldn't be a Web at all. |
Unreal
| | I like to plug webio stations that broadcast in MP3, or anything other than Real or Windows Media. Today's station is Island Music, from Prince Edward Island. There's more to tell about this one, but I gotta go to bed, and my head is still spinning about what's happening in Africa. |
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