joelbush:

Thanks, men.

curvedwhite:

Luctor et emergo installation designed by SuperA

Overheard:

“It’s not so bad being old, it simplifies alot of things.”

Dad has an iPhone.

HT: The Quantified Self

Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks content away in a container, outside the reach of hyperlinks, you’re not building any kind of ‘web’ app. You’re doing something else. Palm WebOS applications are awesome, but they are not part of the web. An app might interact with data on the web, and they are built with similar HTML, CSS and JavaScript technologies. That’s great, but they are not a connected, interlinked part of the web.

Understanding the architecture of a thing is important in understanding the ontology of a thing.

A response to this, with more discussion here.

Democratic revolutions require such deliberation and philosophical nourishment — more than can be delivered in 140-character bites. The Internet is a medium like none the world has ever known. But the medium isn’t the message. And in the struggle for liberty, the message matters most.

Immanence | Transcendence

Concrete | Abstraction

Flesh | Algorithm

when you abstract labor from the end product, you get an assembly line.

when you abstract a person from the thing being produced, you call them the “end user”.

enfleshment of technology

how:modernity :: who:postmodernity