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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Are Bloggers Wasting Their Time Tinkering with Their Blogs in the Hopes of Getting More Readers?
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I suspect at this stage of things that most of those who started blogging have been less than thrilled with their results--certainly to go b...
Never Underestimate the Suckerdom of Bosses
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A while back Cory Doctorow rather nicely summed up what I suspect is (contrary to the past decade's Frey-Benedikt study-kickstarted hype...
The Unusability of the Internet and the Taming of the Cyber-Space frontier
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Back in the 1990s there was a good deal of cyber-utopianism . I think of most of it as having been hype for the web and the tech sector, and...
The End of the Cyber-Frontier
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Back in the 1990s the cyber-utopians, reflecting their ideological background , seemed inclined to portray the Internet as a new frontier fo...
Nostalgia as Protest--and its Limitations
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I suppose that where nostalgia is concerned we can speak of "pull" and "push." We may be pulled toward some aspect of th...
Of "Optimism"
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"Optimism" has always struck me as a slippery word whose usage often betrays a lightness of mind. To be optimistic, after all, alw...
The Supposed End of Work, and the Drivel Spoken About It
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A few years back, when the hype about automation anticipated more than glorified autocompletes, fashionable "thinkers" proclaimed ...
The Beginning of the End of the Cult of the Good School?
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By "cult of the Good School" I refer to the profoundly irrational hierarchy that exists among institutions of higher learning in t...
Does it Make Sense to Self-Publish a Book in 2024 (if Ever it Did)?
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Considering the question that is the title of this post I think it worth starting with a bit of background ( covered before in some degree ,...
Politics, Art, Hypocrisy
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One of the great hypocrisies of art criticism is the sneer at art for being "political." After all, in treating any subject--or ...
Tom Clancy: Another View
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Some time ago I came across Keith Pille's analysis of Tom Clancy's novels . The approach he takes differs greatly from mine. Where...
On Irony
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Recently writing about "the mood of the 1990s" it was completely unironic that the matter of irony came up in my research, and my...
"Is This Blog Written by an AI?"
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In answer to the question that is the title of this post, "No." It may well be that others are handing over the job of generatin...
"Are You a Robot?"
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Recently revisiting the theorizing about the "information age" of Alvin Toffler and others I have mainly focused on what has not ...
The End of Fan Fiction?
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The question of whether "fan fiction" is in decline has at this stage of things been debated for decades. It has long seemed to ...
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