… yes, the world needs another one — another one by me, no less. I’m trying a different approach here, because I’m getting close to zero responses to my work at Open Conceptual — I suppose because the posts are too long and complex. So I’m using this as an opportunity to practice writing proper, [...]
October 2007
My modest proposal took me largely by surprise. I was trying to write about ‘general creativity,’ but didn’t like any of the results. My failed efforts eventually degenerated into introspective, ironic, circular little jokes; the essay turned into a story about itself – an ‘auto-bibliography’ as I sometimes call it – that had nowhere to [...]
‘Tis a melancholy experience for anyone who browses through this great medium, to see so much content of low and dubious quality, so much wasted time and energy, so much gaming and spamming and jockeying for attention. A once powerful conduit of ideas and insight, a meeting place of the world’s sharpest minds tackling the [...]
Back before the bubble-bust of 2000, there was a guy at my university — let’s call him Gordie — who tried convincing a couple of my business student friends that the future of the web would be less about e-commerce and more about entertainment. Our business friends didn’t buy the argument. They insisted rather that [...]
