this one's for Ben. Innovation in Open Source communities through processes of variation and selection.
media: November 2004 Archives
I was looking for another link to What the Bleep and I found a link to a review board that looks pretty interesting: OFFOFFOFFfilm. We'll see if they vet my comment through or not. :-)
I was thinking about the two movies, Huckabee's and Bleep, and what it is that makes people react so differently to them. Perhaps, its in the way they "structure" the message? Because I did read essentially the same message in both but they are packaged quite differently.
Huckabee's presents a mainly connected knowing view of the world, and Bleep is almost totally separate knowing.
Much more entertaining and artsy than "What the Bleep", but with a generally complementary message. Many humorous moments. Overall though, it made me feel sad. Not that that's so hard to accomplish these days. :-( Taking the "long view" hasn't made any tangible difference in my day-to-day life.
Oh well. Wah Wah. Dinner was yummy and the company good.
Almost missed it. I'd seen this link to the Blogora recently but hadn't GONE there yet. Thanks to Becky for sending it on. It looks a good un. (One for the rss.)
One of the authors posted a piece on today's Transgender Day of Remembrance which includes some additional links, including this one to Venus Envy, a cartoon blog by a transgender high school student.
Well, I'm going to use the rant against the south as my explicit text, am still looking for an implicit one. Meanwhile, some blogs that discuss FTS.com and may be of future/further interest:
the liberal reality-based avenger" who is based in China.
StumbleUpon, a community tool that acts as a search engine of sites recommended by "friends and peers" and perhaps not accessible via Google. Hmmm!
Hunju has pulled together the 2nd UMass Korean Film Festival which begins tomorrow night in the Campus Center and continues for three nights only.
Catch 'em while you can!
Haven't been able to access my site for t he past 36 hours or so. Finally this morning it went through - a problem with my ISP, apparently, but I had friends teasing me about the FBI confiscating my hard drive. I could only wish to be so influential a target! :-)
Now that I'm becoming a Jon Stewart watcher (!), last night he said it was the first time he really "got" the culture wars. It really is about developing a system that can accommodate difference - the most radical alterity - those whose vision of what human culture ought to be is different than ours - the red states.
I want to disagree with Stephen's reactive insistence that we have to resort to the rhetoric of fear in order to sway those still "reachable" through various forms of communication. I want to contest his pronouncement, "Democracy is not possible." (Viveca's retort, "What about rhetoric and performance?" was a gem.) :-)
