AS EQUALS A man offered a rose to a woman to mark International Women’s Day in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday. (Photo: Marko Djurica / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)
nate mook
Mar 09
Mar 01
“ Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
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The Internet? Bah! - Newsweek in 1995 (via ojacko)
It’s humorous how narrow-minded and wrong the author was. Negroponte has a gift of looking 10 or 20 years down the road at what’s possible (he showed off multi-touch interfaces at TED in 1984), while this guy was looking purely at what currently existed.
However, most interesting was how ominously accurate the author’s final paragraph was:
What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is…
Jan 26
» Interesting article on "stock and flow" and how it relates to current media
I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for obvious reasons—but we neglect stock at our own peril. I mean that both in terms of the health of an audience and, like, the health of a soul. Flow is a treadmill, and you can’t spend all of your time running on the treadmill. Well, you can. But then one day you’ll get off and look around and go: Oh man. I’ve got nothing here.
But I’m not saying you should ignore flow! No: this is no time to hole up and work in isolation, emerging after long months or years with your perfectly-polished opus. Everybody will go: huh? Who are you? And even if they don’t—even if your exquisitely-carved marble statue of Boba Fett is the talk of the tumblrs for two whole days—if you don’t have flow to plug your new fans into, you’re suffering a huge (here it is!) opportunity cost. You’ll have to find them all again next time you emerge from your cave.
Jan 22
What the 2008 election would look like if it were decided by 18-29 year olds
Jan 04
Maybe there is hope for our ever-increasingly isolated and anti-social (no, Facebook is making us less social) society after all.
Dec 09
Humans do not deserve this planet.
Dec 02
tickatickets!
booya
Nate at 5:45pm: Want to see Zero 7 in b’more tonight?
Me: hmm…
Nate: Backstage passes….
Me: Done.They were very down to earth and even appreciated our massive line dance up front.
PS. I love Olivia’s new version of their classic hit
Nov 12
A little over a year ago standing in as press at the massive Obama rally on election eve.
Nov 11
Random Flickr find: Me and Gary Vaynerchuk last month.
Oct 16
The contiguous United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.
Oct 13
“ For fun, I placed a large message halfway through the newspaper: “Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250.” Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.
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Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via ojacko)
My favorite part:
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.
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And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
Oct 05
At what point did lying to the public become patriotic?
Oct 01
Sep 30
“ We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual accomplishment — it continues to amaze me that private enterprise and venture capital spend so much time and energy (not to mention cash) on “innovations” like Twitter and other forms of social blathering rather than on marshaling the energies and talents of our engineers to create new industries to replace the ones that enabled the American Century.
— Esquire editor David Granger in the most recent issue.
“ Regardless of how you view Capitalism, Moore is absolutely right about one thing. As Beck continues to prove, there is a grass-roots movement of people rallying around dissatisfaction with the Republican party. So if a change is gonna come, it’s going to require organized action. It’s going to take more than status-update solidarity to implement health-care reform.
— From a review of Michael Moore’s new movie in the City Paper.
