Archive for October 19th, 2007
Wesch 2.0
Michael Wesch, the professor behind the video, is a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University. His most famous video, Web 2.0… The Machine Is Us/ing Us, is also on web cultural and the way we (and computers) learn things. The comment thread at YouTube on the video posted above is sort of interesting, featuring a [...]
President, king, priest
Consider for a minute the presidential personal-life narrative that is the big news in Paris this week.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy got a very quiet divorce on Thursday. He met his now-former wife Cecilia, a one-time model, when they were both married to other people. They had an affair, then divorced from their spouses and [...]
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