I don’t have a TV-set for many, many years now.

What Business Can Learn from Open Source: “Nor is there [in the media - tnb] anything new, except the names and places, in most ‘news’ about things going wrong. A child is abducted; there’s a tornado; a ferry sinks; someone gets bitten by a shark; a small plane crashes.

It’s out. This is (in German, in English) how we go to the market.

Slightly provocative but exactly what I had in mind when I thought about the fact that we even need to learn to breath when we enter this world. It made sense for Microsoft and the rest of us to bundle Minesweeper and Solitaire in their Windows distributions. This way we learned how to use the mouse …

[...] Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful: “People do adapt to technology.

Is there a better quote and comment to start into this weekend, isn’t it. Bryan Alexander on J.W. Cramptons, The Political Mapping of Cyberspace.

Confession and writing blogs: Blog writing is not revelatory, in Crampton’s view, but productive.  Identity is not revealed, but produced:

“While the outcome of ‘classical’ confession… is to produce authentic discourse or the truth about oneself, self-writing such as blogging has no such target.  Rather, they are part of the process of a ‘life emerging’” (96)

That production occurs without normative control, as newspaper editors love to say.  Clearly this goes against the foundation of the confessional:

“To confess is to be in a position of (1) being authenticated as who you say you are (real/false) and (2) being placed in a discourse of normalization’ (97).”

(Via Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education.)