nate mook

inothernews: AS EQUALS A man offered a rose to a woman to mark...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:16 -0500

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)

"Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:34:29 -0500

“Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.”

- 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…

Interesting article on "stock and flow" and how it relates to current media

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:40:06 -0500

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.

ojacko: What the 2008 election would look like if it were...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:04:22 -0500

ojacko:

What the 2008 election would look like if it were decided by 18-29 year olds

Maybe there is hope for our ever-increasingly isolated and...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:48:09 -0500

Maybe there is hope for our ever-increasingly isolated and anti-social (no, Facebook is making us less social) society after all.

Humans do not deserve this planet.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:06:00 -0500

Humans do not deserve this planet.

ojacko: Nate at 5:45pm: Want to see Zero 7 in b’more...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:35:49 -0500

tickatickets!

booya

ojacko:

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

A little over a year ago standing in as press at the massive...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:24:00 -0500

A little over a year ago standing in as press at the massive Obama rally on election eve.

Random Flickr find: Me and Gary Vaynerchuk last month.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:40 -0500

Random Flickr find: Me and Gary Vaynerchuk last month.

The contiguous United States visualized by distance to the...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:32:10 -0400

The contiguous United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.

"For fun, I placed a large message halfway through the newspaper: “Stop counting. Tell the..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:54:39 -0400

“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.”

- 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.

…

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.

At what point did lying to the public become patriotic?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:04:11 -0400

At what point did lying to the public become patriotic?

ojacko: A warm voice for fall. Thanks Nate.

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:03:35 -0400

ojacko:

A warm voice for fall. Thanks Nate.

"We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:17:52 -0400

“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..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:15:03 -0400

“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.

This is warfare young’un Lightning is flashing now Tune in and...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:11:23 -0400

This is warfare young’un

Lightning is flashing now

Tune in and let’s see what’s happening now

One way or another it’s going down

Parchita the dog ran back 116 blocks with us. By the end of the...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:01:49 -0400

Parchita the dog ran back 116 blocks with us. By the end of the ride, I could barely breathe. The dog was fine.

Bogota is now one of my favorite cities.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:59:34 -0400

Bogota is now one of my favorite cities.

Why yes, I think I will take the Maybach to the airport.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:21:54 -0400

Why yes, I think I will take the Maybach to the airport.

Jack made this woman’s night. There’s no greater...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:59:51 -0400

Jack made this woman’s night. There’s no greater gift than that of happiness.