June 2009
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The Online Mega-Ritual of Michael Jackson's Death
@pareidoliac we have to respect MJ, a world monarch, bigger of course than Iran, America even…
“Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson’s being or actions….. “I became very ill and emotionally/spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he...
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"Getting" Twitter at the NYC 140 Characters...
(picture courtesy of Brian Solis)
The Twitter 140 Characters Conference in NYC this week was for, by and about those who “get” Twitter. There were many different types of people in attendance—from bonafide celebrities and prominent business leaders to music critics, marketers and unemployed artists/internet philosophers such as myself. Yet as varied as our individual bios might be we all...
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“My example concerns a young woman patient who, in spite of efforts made on both...”
– CG Jung, On Synchronicity, pgs 109-110
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us (twitter together time mix)
skinnypop:
(note the infinity tat and ties)
I realized that due to their infinite nature, I’d been thinking of Twitter streams as being timeless—but this is not the case. Time matters on Twitter. Not all of the same people who are on early in the morning are on late at night. There are waves of users—one after another the continents wake up, drink coffee, go to work, go...
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“Paper Planes”—MIA (DFA Mix)
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Twitter Telepathy is in the Streams
Last week I posted an article on Reality Sandwich about an experiment by Richard Wiseman that tested Twitter out as a tool for remote viewing. I’m excited by new avenues of research such as this that examine the potential of open social media platforms for being possible tools for non-causal, ESP-like communication. Wiseman wrote an article for New Scientist magazine about the results of...
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“A {Twitter stream} may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Page 9, in which I’ve substituted the words “Twitter stream” for “rhizome”.
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“Jolene” (Divide and Kreate...
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I don't believe in books.
I started to stop believing in books back in college. I knew the great tomes of Modernism had seen their time…David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon hit the ball so far out of the park that they put the genre of the mega book to bed and ushered in the era of hypertext and hyper meaning. Not only were books getting shorter and smaller they were also appearing in new (and renewed) formats: ...
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“I want to be like him. He’s never hung-up, he goes every direction, he...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 4
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Generation FLoW(er)!
(“Night Vanity” by Evan Gruzis )
Life on open social media platforms flows continuously without beginning or end. There are no season finales, sequels or prequels. The streams are in a constant state of flux. They consist of users who are both helping to define it and being defined by it as they oscillate in and out of the various streams of which they are members. There is a...
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