Just a thought that occurred to me in a number of e-mail discussions. We all probably notice the value of humour (irony or otherwise) in communications, and we’ve probably all seen the pitfalls of misplaced / misunderstood humour in electronic communications, even with emoticons. I can’t see any equivalent of negative irony. No concept of [...]
Entries from June 2006
Memes and Electronic Irony
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June 7, 2006 at 3:35am
by Ian
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You Tube Phenomenon
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June 6, 2006 at 4:38am
by Ian
It’s fascinating what video clips you can find on-line, somehow much more interesting than the music download thing. Rivets keeps linking to eclectic, downright bizarre and genuinely interesting examples. A great collection of piano players here at White Man Stew. And whilst we’re linking from Rivets … Da Vinci turning in his grave ? One [...]
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Brain Bug Reality
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June 6, 2006 at 4:15am
by Ian
More RFID Tags paranoia at Live Science [via Rivets]. Nutters says Rivets, but turn the idea on its head and …. …. being RFID tagged seems a great idea to me – you could assume someone without an RFID tag might be an illegal alien, rather than wasting time stopping and checking normal people going [...]
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Top 50 Living Management Thinkers
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June 6, 2006 at 3:18am
by Ian
A link via a search cross-hit. The world after Drucker.
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Internet Saves The Enlightenment
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June 4, 2006 at 10:00pm
by Ian
Interestingly that’s more or less a Douglas “DNA” Adams view, from his 1999 piece “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet“. (Post No.2 back in 2001 at the very start of Psybertron, that link.) DNA and Dawkins were of course a mutual admiration society, but the link here is in fact to [...]
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Cognitive Edge
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June 4, 2006 at 9:29pm
by Ian
I see (via Anecdote) that Dave Snowden’s “Cynefin” is now “Cognitive Edge” to continue the Cynefin work originating at IBM, but avoiding a trademark issue. Interesting I mentioned Dave in correspondence earlier this week concerning Dr Robert Harris of Paradigm Research International, and in that correspondence Robert mentioned “SNA” (Social Networks Architecture) as a “hot [...]
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Twelve Hours of Sunset
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June 2, 2006 at 5:38am
by Ian
A meta-meme at work here ? I was just making some comments elsewhere about my earlier reference to J S Mill setting of the Pythons’ Philosphers’ Song in my head, and being easily set-off again and again by even oblique references – any mention of will, freedom or liberty so far – it’ll be tennis, [...]
