Posts from — September 2004

On-Line Writing Advice from George Orwell. When it comes to writing on-line (personal or corporate), I'm very much on the opposite end of the spectrum of the traditional PR and Marketing approaches. They generally involve hype, big words, and lots of flowery language that doesn't actually say anything. When it comes to providing someone a list of simple rules to avoid doing that, I look to the famous George Orwell's excellent essay Politics and the English Language, written in 1946. Much of it is still very,… [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

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now we all just need to read orwell's 'why i write' too. cause it is somewhat important.

Alan Liu’s Laws of Cool. After Twisty Little Passages and First Person, the academic book I've been most looking forward to reading is Alan Liu's Laws of Cool, years in the making and just released by University of Chicago Press.
The Laws of Cool is a study of the relation of the contemporary humanities and arts … [Grand Text Auto]

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this looks like it will be good.

buy one.

here is a republican citizen acting like he should not be a citizen, but should be a detainee of the court system because he is assaulting someone and preventing free speech and such.

notre musique. yestereday was opening day toronto international film festival. godard's notre musique, a deeply-felt commentary on the contemporary hell and purgatory wrought by man's inhumanity to man and the effects of war in particular. the film opens with an especially powerful poetic montage of historical and contemporary footage of … [Megan Boler's Weather Reports]

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megan has a blog… see….

[foo] Designing shared ontologies. Jason Cole lead a session on how to design a tool he wants to build. He says most academic technology is aimed at teachers. How do we build tools that support learning? His wife just started grad school and wants a tool that will build a personal knowledge base. But it should work with her friends' bases. And you'd like to find others working on the same issues. That means merging disparate ontologies. What do you do about degree of belief? Ontologies are binary, but people don't think in that binary way. “The problem with monolithic ontologies is that interesting… [Joho the Blog]

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some people know that i've worked on something for this before….

i use mediawiki, it works pretty well.

this is a short theory on the information elite… it misses one key difference, other than its inherent wrongness, and that is that the difference between the command-line people and the gui people.

This Explains EVERYTHING. Indiana University study: having children significantly lowers parents’ IQs…. [Discourse.net]

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interesting….

worth listening.