tags: consumating
2006
October
- 2006 Oct 6
- lowest common denominator
OK, sure, this will definitely come out culturally elitist, but the phenomenon known as digg.com is yet another example of the principle of mediocrity in capitalist economies. (Or, for the more politically correct minded, perhaps we can call it the principle of democracy.) Like Walmart, the American public school system, Microsoft Windows, and our pathetic dependence on hydrocarbons for fuel, the “good enough” is the enemy of the “best” and, contrary to what Social Darwinists would have you believe, laissez faire capitalism leads to championing the mediocre.
· Read more… - 2006 Oct 27
- My new topic on Consumating
Tell me, how many of you are Consumating from work, and how do you get anything else done?
· Read more… - 2006 Oct 27
- Consumating’s Question of the Week
What brings out the devil in you?
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November
- 2006 Nov 21
- fragmentation and the paradox of social networks
Mostly, I like the fact that it’s not MySpace.
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