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
> 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 f
So porn figures importantly in the demise of usenet. Here I disagree
with Dmytri's implication that usenet died because of its
decentralised nature. As I remember it, being a sysadmin and network
engineer, it was more a simple question of expense of running a full
feed. alt.binaries was big. The
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 th
> 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. Centrali
> Capitalism was invented for a "purpose" by more-or-less by the same
> people who gave us the 18th century (first) Industrial Revolution.
> While corporations and usury had been around for a while, that
> purpose was (roughly speaking) "industrialization." Today the
> Chinese call their syst
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 c
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 pict
Last Saturday a momentous event occured in Milan: hundreds of young
people working with art, theater, video, cinema, design, publishing,
education and the like took over the Galfa Tower, an abandoned
33-floor skyscraper, strategically located close to Milano Central
Station, next to the Hilton and
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 saw t
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