No Particular Place to Go David Weinberger has been thinking in public again, giving us plenty to chew on. I’m with ‘most everything he says. I had been wondering for a while before I read these remarks, though, about the applicability of spatial metaphors to the Web. I’d been tempted to reject the notion altogether…
All posts in March 2002
9 March 2002
Aaargh! That was the sound of my button being pushed, hard. Mark Woods quotes a very short essay by Alex Burns about Elaine Pagels from disinformation, the closing words of which are, Pagels’ magisterial and witty writings reveal an important neuro-political lesson: Salvation must be found from personally mediated truths. Heed her call and remember.…
8 March 2002
Sweet Home Chicago Well, it’s Evanston, to be precise, but it’s home and Robert Johnson never wrote about Evanston. Uneventful travel, except I’m exhausted and a couple of days behind. My talk in St. Louis went very well. I was acquainted with a number of people from the Church of St. Michael and St. George…
7 March 2002
What He Said Me too.
6 March 2002
On Cussing Since my reluctance to use strong language has become a topic for some amusement, I will confess to you all that just a moment ago, when WordPerfect quit in the middle of my editing my newly-revised, started-over-fresh talk for tonight, I cut loose with a vivid and emphatic one. RageBoy would be proud.…
5 March 2002
Friends Mike Sanders has invited us to converse with him about principles, the meaning of life, the creator (if any), and the soul. “Keep your answers to twenty-five words or fewer, class.” I have too much to say on all these topics, too much to say. A number of sharerers in bloggery have unveiled deep…
4 March 2002
Not fade away Heartfelt thanks to wood s lot for bringing us a daily serving of mind food. I was especially nourished by the Manuel DeLanda and the Olympic beer riot essays–but you bring us more good thinking than I can begin to digest. ( 10:11 AM ) Reading and Faith On Saturday, David Weinberger…
The Dog Ate My Blog
How rude of me! A few days ago, Tom Shugart answered a non-congratulatory blog of mine relative to his account of true Web-selfhood. At the end of his ruminations, he politely asked, “So, instead of ‘true self,’ perhaps I should have said ‘more vibrant self.’ Would that get me off the hook?” I ought first…
1 March 2002
Calling RageBoy, not one to permit a bluff lightly, has put his postmodern theological cards on the table and even challenged me to show what I’m holding. I had been playing these close to the chest because (a) experience teaches that very few people in the world actually want to talk about theology and (b)…