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“ Google can answer almost anything you ask it, but it can’t tell you what you ought to be asking. Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Centre for Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a long-time evangelist for the internet, points out that it doesn’t match the ability of the printed media to bring you information you didn’t know you wanted to know. He calls the front page of a newspaper a “discovery engine

— IN SEARCH OF SERENDIPITY | More Intelligent Life

“ It is tough to break into traditional book publishing the normal way but comparatively easy to do it from the web, provided you have put in the early work of community building. The beauty is that the community building doesn’t feel like work; it feels like goofing off with your friends (because, mostly, it is). You don’t have to turn your readers into customers. Indeed, if you feel like you’re turning your readers into customers, you’re doing it wrong.

— The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

“ Isn’t the spangling of stars in the sky just basically random noise onto which we’ve projected patterns and then stories? And if that’s been successful—and it toootally has—doesn’t it imply that you could do the same with just about any kind of random noise? What sort of weird wacky stuff could you spread across your desk to tell stories with?

— Explosions in the sky « Snarkmarket (on “Constellational thinking”)

» unfinished work: I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry Doesn't

bradburnham:

I have always believed that the entertainment industry’s effort to stop piracy by asking search engines and ISPs to make it more difficult for their users to find pirate sites was the wrong way to solve the problem, but it could never put my finger on why I felt so strongly about it. After all,…

» [this is aaronland] the status of truth

I am saying that by encouraging documentary efforts outside the scope of the contemporary zeitgeist we create a zone of safekeeping for historical records and their stories for a time when we are ready to reconsider them.

(via [this is aaronland] the status of truth)

“ Information without narratives”, the nightmare of an ever-unfolding situation, inimicable to interpretation.

— #wikileakspaper | booktwo.org

“ We prejudge endlessly. Because we have not experienced the emotions that new technologies trigger we assume that they will be less powerful than the emotions we already know. Just because we haven’t had these feelings yet.

— Stop Lying About What You Do | booktwo.org

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As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 1862

— Abraham Lincoln’s Annual Message to Congress — Concluding Remarks