Monthly Archives: July 2007

Extreme Democracy

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 30, 2007

The series continues tonight at 7pm US Central Time (90 degrees off the prime meridian, 6 hours ahead of Universal, Zulu, Greenwich Mean Time or whatever you call it where you are.) A discussion of the essays of Valdis Krebs (It’s the Conversation Stupid!: The Link Between Social Action & Political Choice), Ross Mayfield (Social [...]

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Facebook status…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 29, 2007

Here’s a candidate for “most unfortunate truncation of a Facebook status message” found at Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine: * * * The full message was “Jeff is glad to finally have a CUNY J-School network.” So I guess I don’t need to send him any snarky notes about his spelling. [tags]BuzzMachine, Coney Island of the mind, [...]

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Happy Birthday Doc Searls

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 28, 2007

Born July 29, 1947 This is one of those birthdays with a zero on the end. I hope it’s a good one. [tags]doc searls, sixty is the new thirty-five[/tags]

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Dad

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 27, 2007

The local NBC affiliate has an “Unsung Heroes” feature on the nightly news. Last night World War II combat infantryman Bill Paynter was featured. They took him through a little silliness showing off the scars that are older than I am, but all-in-all I thought it was a nice segment and I am very proud [...]

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Systems of meaning…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 26, 2007

With all kinds of bows to Gadamer, Philip Cushman writes in Constructing the Self, Constructing America, page 309 of the 1995 Da Capo Press edition (Perseus Books Group): There is something in the very nature of being human that makes it extremely difficult to differentiate what we are from what we construct, or what we [...]

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Heisenberg rears his ugly head, and Karl Marx plays whack-a-mole…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 26, 2007

Wherein Ms. Hegemonic takes a walk on the wild side and interviews some kids to support her sense that MySpace is where the “subalterns” gather and Facebook is for her peeps. Danah Boyd gathered her impressions and wrote an essay called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. Writing from the perspective of a [...]

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Let’s bring it on…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 25, 2007

[tags]working class hero, marianne faithfull, poets and peasants, class warfare[/tags]

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Odetta

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 25, 2007
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