“I have an Internet within the Internet. It is my very, very own Internet, a place like the one that is known to you except that it is not known to you—it is mine alone. No one else may go there.”
- Paul Lethem
Ukemeabasi "Ukeme" Esiet | Christian | Nigerian | Loyola Jesuit College '05 | Assumption College '09 | Cornell University* | Boston University '14
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June 9, 2013
"My Internet" by Jonathan Lethem
May 15, 2013
Jasmine - Jai Paul
February 24, 2013
"Social media provides a non-stop, surging firehose of data which can be similarly mined, albeit more clumsily. It’s not clean, interrogable data like numbers in a spreadsheet – it’s opinion mixed with fact mixed with rumor. It’s on-scene witness reporting mixed with context from external observers with an intelligent smattering of professional journalism, and all of it is being spat out relentlessly at breakneck speed. The news agencies that will win the new information wars will be the ones that develop the capacity to intelligently sift that data for tasty news morsels, get to the nub of the most pertinent global conversations promptly, and deliver neatly digested context to their readers ahead of the pack."
— The New Traditional News Outlet | DataSift Blog (via gosdot)
(via gosdot)
February 23, 2013
Miguel x Jon Kwest - Adorn (eSenTRIK Moombahton Edit)
The funk / Highlife guitar at the start of this remix just gets me and makes me enjoy the song even more.
If you know me or have followed my blog(s) for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of Remix King eSenTRIK. He’s partly responsible for my love of mashup music genres (along with DJ earworm) . Bonus eSenTRIK after the jump.
February 22, 2013
Tony Allen, drummer for Fela Kuti’s Africa 70, whom Brian Eno once called “perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived”.
February 22, 2013
"Sometimes in life you feel the fight is over,
and it seems as though the writings on the wall.
Superstar you finally made it,
but once your picture becomes tainted,
it’s what they call,
the rise and fall."
and it seems as though the writings on the wall.
Superstar you finally made it,
but once your picture becomes tainted,
it’s what they call,
the rise and fall."
—
“Rise & Fall” - Craig David ft. Sting via AZLyrics
Sting is the man! Where in the world is Craig David?
February 22, 2013
"O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens.
You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?"
Your glory is higher than the heavens.
You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
the moon and the stars you set in place—
what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?"
— Psalm 8: 1-4, New Living Translation via YouVersion
February 20, 2013
"Los Angeles is in many ways the opposite of both New York and Chicago. Those older cities had their locations dictated by waterways… By contrast, little about the location of Los Angeles seems geographically determined. Southern California lies at the edge of the country, perched on the western seaboard, and Los Angeles didn’t even start out with a port. The city wasn’t a natural place to produce anything; it was just a beautiful spot with a great climate."
— “Growth: the death and life of cities” by Edward Glaeser, Making Cities Work (Robert P. Inman, Ed.)
February 20, 2013
"I call it a cult and not a culture because the desire to believe causes critical blindness in much the same way extremely religious people often have difficulty seeing the merits of other religions.
In the case of the cult of ideas, they have a dogmatic devotion to the new and novel. But what is new or novel is not necessarily correct or above questioning. This is where the belief system of the cult of ideas has become as blind as every other cult before them."
In the case of the cult of ideas, they have a dogmatic devotion to the new and novel. But what is new or novel is not necessarily correct or above questioning. This is where the belief system of the cult of ideas has become as blind as every other cult before them."
—
“The Cult of Ideas” by Francisco Dao, PandoDaily
I think the idea is that gatherings and communities like TED can possibly foster crazy groupthink.
February 20, 2013
The Public Library of Brookline
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