Decaying aspirations of professionalism
Didn’t get much done yesterday, blogging-wise, eh? Continue reading “Decaying aspirations of professionalism”
Tagging for today and tomorrow
Tags, tags, tags. They’re everywhere, from big name news sites to tin-pot backwaters like this one. But are they any real use to the average internet denizen, and more specifically to science fiction heads?
Tags: blogs, community, Computers, del.icio.us, fiction, Futurism, individuals, Libraries, metadata, Metaverse, methodology, networking, people, problems, semantic, social, standards, tagging, tags, web
My thoughts on being Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2006
Time Magazine is no stranger to controversy as regards their ‘Person of the Year’ feature. Some folk have never forgiven them for once giving the dubious accolade to Adolf Hitler, but they have failed to realise that it’s not necessarily a valedictory honour – the Person of the Year is the one deemed to have been most influential on world events, for good or ill. Continue reading “My thoughts on being Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2006″
Screw it, let’s just ban everything
Straight off the bat, let me just say that when socially and mentally disturbed people shoot up rooms full of school kids, I have no sympathy with their cause whatsoever, except to believe that society needs to find a better solution to these types of issues than simply pumping the people who experience them full of drugs with bizarre side-effects, leaving them with a lot of time alone and hoping for the best.
ADHD and the Singularity
ADHD is a pretty controversial topic at the best of times; throwing the Singularity into the mix only adds to that. Continue reading “ADHD and the Singularity”
Tags: ADHD, attention, change, culture, deficit, disorder, Futurism, hyperactivity, neurology, parenting, Singularity, social, society, Technology, Transhumanism
Does science fiction have a social function?
Is modern science fiction failing to provide the positive visions of the future that it used to? And if so, is that a bad thing – is SF somehow ‘failing its mission’? Continue reading “Does science fiction have a social function?”
Buying power
One of the dictums of the internet at the moment is that of the ‘power and/or wisdom of crowds’. Continue reading “Buying power”
For all MySpace haters…
Think MySpace promotes a uniformity of ‘culture’ among its users? Yeah, me too. So, like me, you’ll probably love this picture that I found floating around teh intarwebs:
A million bad haircuts flick sideways in rage at my wrongness…I guess I, like, totally suck and stuff, and am probably ghey. Think I’ll go listen to Fallout Boy; no-one understands me, anyway.
