On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
The curiously absent question is why there should be social media in the
first place, and 'media' in general.
Lascaux.
Notice that memes and image macros is a regression to pictorial
re all,
On Sun, 06 May 2012, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Commodified and detached-from-history displays of this sort are
much more likely to *hide* than to *reveal* anything useful about
our *living* culture for the simple reason that those who actually
construct these exhibits have no culture
For what it's worth, the *original* Internet (okay, ARPANET) was
quite centralized and, in fact, had surveillance (albeit of a
very small group of researchers who had grown reluctant to travel
to brain-storm) as (one of) its primary goals.
This is a strange thing to say. Centralised in
Interesting question William --
So, does capitalism still have a broad social *purpose* once a
significant level of industrialization has already been achieved?
I have a Harris tweed jacket that I like very much and wear almost
every day. I like to take the train. Did the history that
Lascaux is far from being low cost/free and with global reach, which I had
in mind.
Show me someone who contributes to 'social media' today with an eye on
recognition 10,000 years from now. Which is what transpired in Lascaux -
the style did not change for thousands of years, and very few
http://peakoil.com/production/orlov-shale-gas-the-view-from-russia/
(Somehow this seems relevent...
Orlov: Shale gas the view from Russia
The official shale gas story goes something like this: recent technological
breakthroughs by US energy companies have made it possible to tap an
abundant but
