from Silver Keys album. Listen closely to the lyrics… via YouTube – IKIPR – Profession – Esoterrorist.

“Fuck the exposition,” he says gleefully, as we go back into the bar. “Just *be*. The exposition can come later.” He describes a theory of television narrative. “If I can make you curious enough, there’s this thing called Google. If you’re curious about the New Orleans Indians, or ‘second-line’ musicians–you can look it up.” The [...]

Every morning, I scan through a twitter stream created by thousands of people, and mirror that activity on several other services. I ask myself, after a minute or two of that, “What stuck out?” If something really stuck out, you can best believe that thing is a high priority on the cultural mind right now, [...]

As a news consumer halfway around the globe, my conclusion was that these news sources were interpreting the statement that “all their demands” would be met included Mubarack stepping down. Again, it’s hard to determine who was first and the particular order, but the echo chamber, I believe, had begun here. via The Egyptian revolution, [...]

A national survey by MediaBugs found only 60 percent of the daily newspaper sites it examined had any explicit way for users to report errors. via Washington Post corrects its online corrections process | Knight Digital Media Center.

Any journalist whose reporting threatens that belief system gets sliced and diced by its apologists and polemicists say, the fabulists at Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the yahoos of talk radio. Remember when Limbaugh, for one, took journalists on for their reporting about torture at Abu Ghraib? He attempted to dismiss the cruelty inflicted on [...]

Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake up. Undaunted by history, one psychologist believes he has the answer. The problem, says Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics, [...]

When factions within a memeplex begin organizing, pay attention – it could end up spilling out into public witch hunts.. “We’re no more engaged in a witch hunt than a doctor excising a cancer is engaged in a witch hunt,” said Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com and St. Michael’s Media. “We’re just shining a spotlight on [...]

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Twitter is “censoring” discussion of Wikileaks by preventing it becoming a trending topic, writes blogger Bubbloy. As he points out with some neat research, the popularity of Wikileaks discussion far outstrips that of the pop culture ephemera that does trend. But is there a clue in the fact Twitter’s feature isn’t called ‘popular topics?’ Perhaps [...]

Harnessing the power of the collective crowdsourcing for social change is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus, and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. First, that our default state as a species is to create and share and collaborate, and we are just now moving back toward normalcy, aided by the [...]

Camelback High School librarian Georgette Bordine says the two Audubon Society books checked out in 1959 and the money order were sent by someone who wanted to remain anonymous. Bordine says the letter explained that the borrower's family moved to another state and the books were mistakenly packed. The letter said the money order was [...]