As the article on cybertyping puts it, there is no race. There is no distinction on being white, black, male female. However, no matter what you are in real life, it is assumed through the internet that you are white. Avatars can be customized with almost any color combination or body part combination, but everyone [...]
October 30, 2007
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As Derrida puts it, you are not thought to exist without a paper saying that you are alive. We have papers ranging from telling us that we have been born, letting us drive, all the way to telling us that we’re dead. We must have a little piece of paper to validate our all. We [...]
October 30, 2007
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According to the video on net neutrality, phone companies want owner ship[governance] of the net because they put in the infrastructure to access the internet. They want to be paid twice- for something they promised to do years ago[putting in the fiber optics, which they are just now getting to] and to be the exclusive [...]
October 23, 2007
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From reading the section of “What is an author” it seems that Foucalt is talking about different things that actually define what an author is and how they are different from other ordinary people in their community. He talks about how the author is immortalized by the very act of writing, where his thoughts and [...]
October 18, 2007
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Copyright protection should only last for as long as the original creator can make a living off their works. Why? Because anyone who comes after who did not create the work tries to get their grubby little hands on it and keep others from reproducing it or creating derivatives, thereby generating a profit and living [...]
October 16, 2007
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In his article about the New Order of Order, David Weinberger talks about how stores and everything else are shifting to a new form of organization that encourages people to seek rather than to browse:
They prefer seekers over browsers…works well for people trying to find what they came in for.
This works in almost any retail [...]
October 16, 2007
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Andrew Keen is a whiner. After he attended FOO Camp(Friends of O’Reilly), and learned of the democratization of the web, he decided not to participate anymore and sits back watching all of us “monkeys” typing away on our keyboards.
The new internet was about self-made music, not Bob Dylan or the Brandenburg Concertos. Audience and author [...]
October 2, 2007
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