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Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Quo blogis?

by Frank Paynter on January 3, 2007

From Blogging, the nihilist impulse by Geert Lovink via Woods Lot…

Sold by the positivists as citizen media commentary, blogs assist users in their crossing from Truth to Nothingness. The printed and broadcasted message has lost its aura. News is consumed as a commodity with entertainment value. Instead of lamenting the ideological color of the news, as previous generations have done, we blog as a sign of the regained power of the spirit. As a micro-heroic, Nietzschean act of the pajama people, blogging grows out of a nihilism of strength, not out of the weakness of pessimism. Instead of time and again presenting blog entries as self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artifacts that remotely dismantle the mighty and seductive power of the broadcast media. read more

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Wired Science

by Frank Paynter on January 3, 2007

Ben Paynter’s Wired Magazine story (January, 2007), The Meteor Farmer, has been adapted for the pilot episode of WIRED SCIENCE.

WIRED SCIENCE, a one-hour primetime program that translates WIRED Magazine’s award-winning journalism into a fast-paced television show, will debut nationally on PBS on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. EST. (Check local listings.) A co-production of KCET/Los Angeles, the West Coast flagship station of PBS, and WIRED, the pre-eminent science and technology magazine, WIRED SCIENCE brings WIRED Magazine’s cutting edge vision, stylish design, and irreverent attitude to the screen with breakout ideas, recent discoveries, and the latest innovations.

The pilot episode takes the viewer into the world of meteorite hunters, where space, commerce, and art intersect, travels to Yellowstone National Park to harvest viruses which may hold the key to a technology revolution, and dives underwater to find NEEMO, NASA’s extreme astronaut training program. Viewers will meet rocket-belt inventors, stem cell explorers, and the developer of an electric car that goes zero-to-60 in under four seconds. As a series, WIRED SCIENCE will span the globe to uncover novel developments in biomedicine, space exploration, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, robotics, and military technology.

You can watch a streaming video presentation of each segment at www.pbs.org *(including Ben’s meteorite story, naturally!)

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