Monday, July 09, 2007

Rainy Monday Morning Links

Ottawa or Portland, Oregon? Over the last month, I couldn't tell you the difference.

Reading: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb and The Black Swan.
John Robb at Global Guerillas leads you to a nice introductory article on swarm theory. Actually, just go to his site and read the last YEAR'S worth of posts. I'm plowing through his amazing book on the evolution of open-source insurgencies for the second time, and it's both informative and an enjoyable read.

The single dumbest editorial I've read in ages. They're doing a thing on Open-Source media, over there at WIRED, too. Listen, what people like Tony Long and Andrew Keen seem to be completely missing is that the open-source information revolution is not being driven by the MySpace Amateurs -- they may as well type "dirty fucking hippies" (h/t Atrios) -- but by other professionals who are seeking more access and volunteering their expertise. These people act as the "knowledge nodes" around which the sheer manpower of interested volunteers can coalesce.

I particularly like how both men dig in on journalism as their test case. So when I read Christy Hardin Smith -- former prosecutor with years of experience -- during the Libby trial, fully knowing her political proclivities, I'm getting worse insight than the major metropolitan newspapers who often reprint White House press releases uncritically, without ever informing their readers of their own political agendas? Worse insight than from a major news show where the host is often friends with the politician he's supposed to be "grilling"? Bullshit. Bloggers at Talking Points Memo uncovered the DoJ attorney firings scandal, and were openly mocked by Time's Richard Cohen while they were developing it. That scandal as led to seven resignations, Congressional hearings, and may well cripple this White House. Yes, they're much worse journalists than Judy "WMD" Miller. Prats.

If it's teachable, it's learnable. A keen mind, a solid understanding of the scientific method and a bit of anger is far more valuable than you may at first imagine.

An interview with William Gibson on how sci fi is really about the present, not predicting the future.

I'm really a bit in love with the storyline Randy's got going over at the webcomic Something Positive. Davan's tracking down the man he's named after, a friend of his grandfather's -- and it turns out the man was a famous underground comic-porn artist in the 40's. That's a genuinely original storyline you'd never see on television.

Currently looking at, for another 4GW article: Sanctuary, with the writer's blog here.

For the pros, Craig Mazin discusses community building (or lack thereof) on a web forum for screenwriters, and the weirdness of the WGA elections.

Denis McGrath writes about the new Canadian content laws, which I really need to understand if I'm going to work up here. They're a bit ... obtuse. I actually had an easier time setting up a meeting with Sky Television in England than I've had nailing down which human to talk to up here, and from friends working right now I understand the insane CBC tradition of having accounting guys making creative decisions has not abated. But onward.

We continue to fund-raise. Info here.

Hmm, I wonder if Warren Ellis is actually contagious, because I feel like having a smoke and crawling back into bed, and I don't even smoke.

48 comments:

DJ said...

Smoking in bed. one of lifes great pleasuresand a pint of the good stuff. do not forget pantless.

Anonymous said...

Bloggers at Talking Points Memo uncovered the DoJ attorney firings scandal...

Well, don't forget the heavy lifting done by McClatchy following a report that the USA in New Mexico complained post-firing that Sen Domenici (R-NM) called him along with Rep Heather Wilson (R-NM) before the election to try to goose him into indicting a democratic office holder before election day.

TPM did some digging on their own, but their big contribution was keeping the pressure on by culling all the disparate news reports from around the country and finding, shall we say, similarities between several US Atty firings.

Still, quite the feather for them, even if Big Media still ignores them.

John said...

Looks like you (or someone, at least) wanged the Gibson interview.

Sucks, too, since good interviews with him are so hard to come by. New book... soon... yes, my precious, very soon...

vespabelle said...

So, basically he's saying that bloggers are so retarded that they can't do work that many of us were taught in high school? (asking, who? when? where? why? how?) Nice.

I don't see why anyone is upset at stupid videos on youtube or hooking up on myspace? Are we supposed to leave goofy stupidity and jackassery to the "professionals?" (I watched What About Jim the other night and I can say that I've experience more laughs watching a goofy video of misheard Norwegian death metal lyrics using Flickr photos than I did watching the show produced by professionals!

Charles Montgomery said...

From Wired:

I've never doubted the ability of the professional journalist to 1.) get the story and 2.) get it right, even if that means fixing some mistakes now and then.

Now that's just silly.. hasn't this rube watched the NYT cover the war in Iraq?

Anonymous said...

Send some of that rain to Oregon. Portland is due for triple digits* tomorrow.

*Fahrenheit.

Geoff Thorne said...

The thing about blogging is the thing about sonnets and haiku and novellas vs novelettes vs screenplays.

These hidebound morons don't seem to grasp that language, especially the ENGLISH language (up from the gutter and the bastard child of many), is in nearly perpetual flux. Our language tears off bits of other slower languages and eats them whole. It is a vicious, hyper-sexual beast with a voracious appetite.

With the advent of new delivery systems changing the time dilation between idea-> execution-> consumption as well as the "physical" nature of the product (how long can a single blog entry be?), you will, of course, engender new rules.

D'OH has an entry in Websters and the OED.
I have heard multiple "Establishment, Mainstream" news readers use the word "Dis" to describe political conflicts with no embarrassment whatsoever.

Sure, there are a lot of crappy blogs out there, but pointing them out as evidence of some dumbing down phenomenon is to miss the point by parsecs.

We are meant to communicate with one another as quickly and efficiently as we can. It is hardwired into us.

These pages, this data sharing, this open sourcing, this creative commons-ing, this link link linking is all in the nature of minds coming together more and more quickly.

See the trees AND the forest.

Both are lovely.

And, of course, dangerous to those who would rather we DIDN'T communicate so fast and easily before they can manage to shove in a filter.

Or sell us something.

Or both.

Steve Malley said...

Collegecrier.com just ain't a-workin' no more. I tried a whole mess of ways to get to it, but no dice. Even the guy who runs it's MySpace page won't link to it anymore...

Great blog in general, though...

SH said...

Google cache to the rescue. It's a pretty good read. Looking forward to Spook Country.

Anonymous said...

Are you messing with me, John? I'm working on a deadline here so I can graduate and finally get a job and buy a DS and watch seasons 1-5 of the Wire, but you give me like two dozen interesting links I want to read. Think of the rest of us, you're killing me...

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