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23 Mar · Wed 2005

To aggregate or not to aggregate...?

I saw chrisg's post about the "aggregated blogs" discussion which has been going on, and like him, started to wonder whether anyone (colleague or otherwise) would really want to aggregate my blog with theirs. I propose a new terminology: if blogs have *good* (to be defined) content, they aggregate. If they have garbage content, they flocculate. Especially if you have the same definition as my dictionary does for flocculant: n. a substance which promotes the clumping of particles, especially one used in treating waste water.

Posted by racingsnake @ 07:16 PM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [2] ]

Award-winning subversion

Thanks to anonequity.org for alerting me to Steve Mann's Leonardo award-winning article: "Existential Technology: Wearable Computing is not the Real Issue" If you were starting to think you had a handle on the main issues relating to Identity and Privacy, this will make you think again - and should give you a laugh too, albeit with a slight feeling of unease. If you have read Frank Herbert's two books featuring Jorj X McKie of the Bureau of Sabotage, ("Whipping Star" and "The Dosadi Experiment") you'll recognise some of the ethical threads Steve Mann teases out. If you have read Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", you'll see his concept of 'gargoyles' nicely subverted here.

Posted by racingsnake @ 06:03 PM GMT+00:00

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