I was trying to give a sense

Donal — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:47:55 +0000

In reply to donal, I woulda picked this

I was trying to give a sense that it was "Clay says vs Evgeny says." I did tend to agree with the feeling that, rather than saving the world, the online world will be a mix of good and bad (and ugly) actors like the offline world.

donal, I woulda picked this

artappraiser — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:05:46 +0000

In reply to An Accelerated Grimace: On Cyber-Utopianism

donal, I woulda picked this quote for the teaser:

....on the negative side of the ledger, the most baleful use of web-enabled resources he seems able to imagine is Lolcats, the signature cute-pets-with-captions of the “I Can Has Cheezburger?” franchise, which he adopts as a stand-in for “the stupidest possible creative act” perpetrated on the web, with nary a whisper about faked Obama birth certificates or the James O’Keefe YouTube videos. (O’Keefe, you may recall, produced a series of videos in which he and an associate posed as a pimp and hooker seeking legal advice at ACORN offices; using extremely selective and misleading video editing, O’Keefe made ACORN employees appear to be colluding in their scheme to evade the law.) For a man who spends his career explaining how the web works, Shirky doesn’t seem to spend much time exploring the thing....

That "stupidest creative act possible" line he caught does seem to be a hypocritical killer of his whole argument. Beware the eye of the beholder thingie, Mr. Shirky.

Anyhew, thank you for pointing it out, I always forget to check wassup at The Nation.

What an embarrassing piece.

quinn esq — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:01:27 +0000

In reply to An Accelerated Grimace: On Cyber-Utopianism

What an embarrassing piece. Best we stick with the NYT eh?

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I was trying to give a sense

donal, I woulda picked this

What an embarrassing piece.