on geekdom:
I wear my label proudly now of course, as many of my kindred do, but once upon a time in a galaxy not so very far away it was anything but cool to be a Geek. We were social outcasts living on the fringes of our peer groups. No one imagined that one-day we might be giants. No one knew that our kind would someday become titans of industry and kings of new uncharted digital realms.
Doc Searls via Deborah:
Napster and its successors are the listeners' workaround of the failed radio industry, which replaced trusted music connoisseurs with payola-driven robots that serve only as freebie machines for the record industry's pop music factories.
the very cool Cary Tennis:
Addiction is like a repairman who breaks your car and then insists that only he can fix it; then he breaks it again and insists that only he can fix it; then he breaks it again and says his rates are going up. And you keep going back because he always fixed it in the past.
Thomas Henry Huxley:
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The Other Sixties, in Boston Globe:
Menand writes, "The change that the counterculture made in American life has become nearly impossible to calculate-thanks partly to the exaggerations of the people who hate the sixties, and partly to the exaggerations of the people who hate the people who hate the sixties. The subject could use the attention of some people who really don't care."
Doc Searls waxing on TiVo:
Commercial television has always been conceived as a device driver for consumers.
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