The eventual theoretical foundation of Internet Studies ™ combines the collapse of ontology with an integrated and consistent set of nudges and an active and self-sustaining community of spimes. Let’s call these the Three Pillars of the Internet Age. These pillars are bound together by what I will call a participatory framework. Internet studies differ [...]

This is really old in internet time, but I just watched it now and it is definitely worth it. David Weinberger is a philosopher by training, and tells basically the same Aristotle to Heidegger story I tell in my own class.

See also: Ontology is Overrated and Information R/Evolution.
Coming up: The Three Pillars of [...]

Futile Podcast has escaped the shackles of Blogspot and moved to its new home of Granate Seed.

My sister Nikki has also started a blog chronicling the Completed Martin Family. Putting it on the Blogroll will make me check it more often.

Ran into this quote from Whitehead:
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without [...]