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|By Jeremy Geelan
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|November 27, 2005 07:00 AM EST
Jeremy Geelan's i-Technology Blog: Can Blogging Change the World?
Ina wonderfully eccentric [and subsequently deleted] posting last week entitled "Does the old school accept blogging?" Alan Williamson suggests not only that I am a late adopter to the world of blogging, dragged-reluctantly-into-the-future-through-a-hedge-backwards kind of thing, but also that the reason for this is - not to beat about the bush - that I'm more or less a hidebound relic of a bygone age.
So permit me quickly to extinguish both myths.
First, as to blogging. Alan references my recent Are We Blogging Each Other to Death? posting and says that he detects in it an undertone of, as he puts it, "What's it all about? This whole blogging nonsense?" Well I have a startling revelation for Alan: this is called critical thought. Blame one of the finest educational systems on earth if you like, but I am proud to say that it's the "undertone" of everything I have done, written, or published for the past 25 years: "What's it all about? This whole BlackBerry nonsense?" -- "What's it all about? This whole 'social software' nonsense?" -- "What's it all about? This whole 'ambient findability' nonsense?" Yes, yes, yes. Until proven otherwise, all emperors are naked.
In other words, of course my default stance toward blogging is that of skepticism. Doh. That is my default stance toward life in general. If that makes me, as Alan says, "old school" (though I think this may just be a reference to Trinity College, Cambridge having been founded in 1546 and/or The John Lyon School having been founded by Harrow school in the 1870s), then so be it. To my mind blogging is no more deserving of a free ride than flogging: in my view all human activity requires critical scrutiny before being given the thumbs up/thumbs down.
Alan, bless him, then launches into the destruction of another paper tiger, namely that I am "troubled" about blogs because of their unstructured nature:
"Blogs are in their raw form, just a collection of unedited, quickly written, musings from the top of people's heads. No, or very little, thought goes into them ... I can hear him screaming now as he reads this very entry, thinking to himself, if he could just rearrange that sentence with this, and further explore this phrase... trying to get himself to the end without exploding. [note to Jeremy - sorry!]"But this is in fact a complete non-issue. Little thought goes into what most people on the planet say or do, but I am not going to lie awake at night worrying about it. Blogging naturally is no exception. There's amazing, insightful writing and there's drivel; nothing new there, whether it be in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, essays, novels, and now blogs. My concern is with insight, not blindness. The sheer proliferation of the words that make up the blogosphere may impact the efficacy of search engine results, but it is not "troubling" me. What is troubling me is the notion that there is some kind of refreshing originality to the word-morass simply because it is typed into a browser or encoded into an mp3 file instead of written down or merely spoken out loud in a FTF conversation.
Alan continues his theorizing:
"I don't think for a moment he feels threatened by blogs, but I do see him react in the same way that some developers reacted when IDEs started to include lots of wizards. Lowering the barrier to entry can sometimes have the effect of making something look too easy and therefore devalue the real skill behind that."Which alas is a second non-issue. To contend that those of us fortunate enough to extract a livelihood, sometimes even a decent living, from words are in some way circling the wagons and trying to keep blogs from diluting the currency of our uniquely insightful gems of prose is at best plain silly and at worst delusional. It is to miss the point entirely. The point (as Alan well knows because as he notes he and I have discussed this many, many times over the past 5-6 years) is not that blogging rivals journalism or punditry or social criticism. Of course it doesn't, it is merely a part of it. No, the problem is that people like Alan keep on (and on and on and on) trumpeting its virtues as if they were in any way different from the virtues of self-expression in general.
In short, like the inveterate technologist he is, what Alan Williamson is doing is mistaking the medium for the message and misguidely portaying blogging as Something Completely Different when everything indicates quite the contrary, i.e. that it is Something Entirely the Same. Freedom of expression, as guaranteed by the First Amendment, is hardly some New, New Thing. Viewed this way, blogging is about as remarkable as logging. That is, it isn't remarkable at all.
So what does all this leave, in terms of contradistinguishing blogging from any other form writing/speaking? It leaves what we might call the "Disproportionate Impact" issue. Alan is much exercised by the thought that, as he puts it, "if they hit the sweet spot ... bloggers can indeed change the world." He instances the recent about-face by SonyBMG over its use of copy-protection software:
"Think back to how we would have done this just 5 years ago? We would have needed to lobby a journalist to write about it assuming his publisher didn't have any potential come back from ruining a relationship with a big national company. Then we would have to guage the reaction from readers in a medium where communication is still very much one way. Naturally this would have only been in one country and if the story didn't hold enough interest, well you know what they say, today's story is tomorrow's chip paper. So the chances of Sony getting away with this tactic 5 years ago, would have been very high."But how, pray, does this make bloggers in 2005 any different from, say, pamphleteers around the time of the English Civil War? As Amanda Griscom has written:
"When the printing press became a public instrument in the mid-seventeenth century, the autocratic voice of England's King Charles I could no longer remain discrete, inexorable, or unchallenged. Pamphleteers could sound off to their allies and adversaries alike in the form of one-cent printed flyers created with Gutenberg's moveable type."When Alan writes "Finally the common man has the opportunity to actually make a difference," I am at a loss to know whether he means it or is merely pulling all our legs. "Finally"??!? Good job that there hasn't been anything like a 550-year history of freedom of printed expression in the run-up to the mere 8-year history
Experience shows us that technology has the mysterious power to cause the suspension of all critical faculties in some people. Blogging is remarkable, we are asked to believe (by technologists) because it is mediated by technology. My point is merely: so was pamphleteering. "There is nothing new under the sun," as the wisdom literatures teach. Tellingly, that phrase, which comes from Ecclesiastes, is there followed by (my emphasis):
Is there a thing of which it is said,"The dumbing down of a craft," writes Alan in his final sentence, "can be painful for any skilled professional to observe and change, like time, can never be stopped." Yet at no point has he even begun to make out any sort of a case demonstrating that I believe blogs "dumb down" commentary/analysis/social criticism and wish to protect my high-falutin ivory tower bastion of late-adoption. (It strikes me as being a bit perverse in any case to accuse the founding editor of a major book series entirely devoted to the future of being backwards-looking.)
"See, this is new"?
It has already been,
in the ages before us.
It's not that blogs dumb anything down that wasn't already dumb. It's more that they don't elevate to the level of insightful anything that wouldn't already have been deemed insightful in the pre-blog era (all 542 years of it). Whereas my distinct impression just now is that blogging is being invested with all manner of curative powers akin to Coca-Cola as originally formulated in 1886 by the Atlanta druggist John Styth Pemberton -- you know, the one who ensured that it contained parts coca leaves to one part cola nut. Coke was promoted as a patent medicine that would "cure all nervous afflictions--Sick Headache, Neuralgia, Hysteria, Melancholy, Etc...."
If blogging, as Alan contends, gives ordinary folks "the opportunity to actually make a difference," then that's a good thing. "This is of course assuming somebody is listening...," he adds, before concluding (again, my emphasis):
"...and as the blogging world has proven, somebody is always listening somewhere."
I am not even going to say that I fear Alan here may be confusing "listening" and "hearing" (reading someone's blog is not the same thing as cognating it). I would merely note a general trend to cram into blogging the hopes and dreams of our times...and sound a note of caution. That's all. Blogging is unlikely to cure AIDS, eradicate world poverty, or bring peace and harmony to the Middle East.
Even Robert Scoble, for example, Microsoft's best-known blogger--whose blog is read by millions of people annually and is the top-ranking business blog among Technorati's Top 100--isn't able to pinpoint precisely what's so different about blogging, though his forthcoming book Naked Conversations* (co-written with Shel Israel) ends with the sweeping statement that "something has changed, and blogging is impacting business of all sizes in most parts of the developed world."
"Ultimately, blogging has ended one era and ignited another," Scoble and Israel write, a tad over-portentously perhaps.
Of course on the other they may even be right. Caution is by no means relevant in all circumstances, and improving the human condition is probably one of the areas where one should most readily throw caution to the wind. As Goethe said: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Author's Note
* Naked Conversations (to be published by Wiley) comes out in January 2006. Quotes here are taken from the Advance Uncorrected Proof.
posted Sunday, 27-Nov-2005
|Paul Horne 02/06/06 04:39:50 PM EST
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Leathetsich is not yet eligible for salary arbitration, but he could not be outrighted to the minors during the off-season (after 11/20) because he is injured (July TJS), so non-tendering him and then re-signing him to a 2016 minor league contract is the only way the Cubs can remove Leathersich from their MLB 40-man roster but still keep him under club control. Of course the Cubs could have simply waited until the start of Spring Training and then placed Leathersich on the 60-day DL (thus removing him from the 40-man roster), so it would appear that the Cubs believe they will need his roster slot on the 40 before then. It remains to be seen if Leathersich will sign a minor league contract with the Cubs, but (as with Cook) the Cubs probably would not have non-tendered him if they did not already have a pre-arranged minor league deal in place.
So the Cubs MLB Reserve List (AKA "40-man roster") now stands at 36, with four slots left open for free-agents who might be signed over the next few days and weeks, off-season waiver claims, or perhaps even a Rule 5 Draft pick.
12/2 UPDATE #1: Jon Heyman at CBS Sports reports that the Cubs have signed LHRP Rex Brothers to a 2016 contract ($1.42M salary). Brothers was paid $1.4M in 2015, and would have been arbitration-eligible for the second time post-2015. He was acquired by the Cubs from the Colorado Rockies for minor league LHSP Wander Cabrera last month.
Tomorrow (Wednesday December 2nd) is the deadline for MLB clubs to tender 2016 major league contracts to unsigned players on the club's MLB Reserve List (AKA "40-man roster").
Cubs 2015 MLB Post-Season Eligibility ListSubmitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 10:41am
A club's Active List (25-man roster) must be submitted to the MLB Commissioner prior to the start of each post-season series (WC, LDS, LCS, and World Series).
A club's Active List can be changed (tweaked) prior to the start of each series (WC, LDS, LCS, and WS).
To Tender or Not to Tender - That is the Question, BardSubmitted by Arizona Phil on Sat, 11/30/2013 - 11:37pm
The Cubs MLB Reserve List (AKA "40-man roster") is presently full. Of the 40 players on the Cubs MLB Reserve List, eight (Starlin Castro, Kyuji Fujikawa, Edwin Jackson, Chang-Yong Lim, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler, Ryan Sweeney, and Carlos Villanueva) are signed for 2014, and 32 (see list below) are under club control but are unsigned. The Cubs must decide by Monday (December 2nd) whether or not to tender a contract to each of the 32 unsigned players.
So Now What?Submitted by Arizona Phil on Sun, 09/29/2013 - 9:08pm
Today was last day of the 2013 MLB regular season, so starting tomorrow and continuing for several weeks, there are a number of roster issues that will need to be addressed:
Can I Get You a Cup of Coffee?Submitted by Arizona Phil on Mon, 08/19/2013 - 4:02pm
This is the time of the year when MLB clubs begin to rearrange the deck-chairs, as contenders look to solidify their post-season rosters with a last minute waiver deal or two prior to the August 31st post-season roster eligibility deadline, and clubs that are out of contention bring up players from the minors to get a look at guys who might (or might not) have a future with the club.
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I thought the same. It'd be great luck to face these non-contenders after the trade deadline.
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Chris Sale was scratched from tonight's scheduled start due to a clubhouse incident before the game
he was sent home by the team, too. the wsox released a press statement and everything. they stated it was non-physical in nature.
He was scratched from his start today. No reason given.
At the start of the season the book was that he was trying to pitch to more contact so he could stay in the game longer and it seems to be working so far. Contact against is 77.5% this year and it was 70.2% the year before. He averaged 6.7 IP/game last year and so far it's 7 IP/game. His actual pitches per game are only down to 106.1/game from 107.2/game last year but if he's able to go a bit farther into games without throwing more pitches and without giving up more runs that is a good thing.
sale's skills and insane value makes it almost too hard to have a market for the guy...he's got 3/38m owed to him over 3 seasons (2 team options). he could easily pull in 30m/yr if he was on the market as a FA.
he's throwing a bit differently this season, especially with more sliders and less changeups like earlier in his career, but all his stuff still looks great even if the HRs are a little elevated and the Ks are down.
Torres, Happ, McKinney, Jimenez, and Candelario for Sale. Deal or no deal?
"The White Sox are reportedly asking for "five top prospects" for Chris Sale, FanRag Sports' Jon Heyman reports."
Unless he develops 30+ HR power and keeps his walk rate close to his K rate at the MLB level, he's not going to turn into Prince Fielder. And even if he does turn into Prince Fielder, he's gonna have a short prime. His very limited athleticism is likely to also detract some value from his ability to reach base--I don't buy making an out as being preferable to base clogging, but you'd certainly prefer just about any base runner other than Vogelbach, David Ortiz, etc.
seeing as arod has played a total of 27.1 innings of D at 1st/3rd and somehow managed a -0.5 dWAR with his 1 error at 1st and an overall positive total zone rating...he might end up even more in the shitter via the characteristics/flaws/whatever of how some sites determine various WAR values. dWAR doesn't directly lead to a WAR value, but the 2 main entities pushing the most popular variations of WAR sometimes lead to some interesting discrepancies in value.
I have a lot of faith in Baez that he's going to turn into a more consistent, solid player. It looks like it took him about a half season or so of futility at the plate to figure out he was not talented enough to get away with the crazy approach he had. I think his running game will eventually have a more measured aggression.
I hope the D and bullpen show up. Cubs haven't had much luck against Davies, and he's been going well lately. A little uncomfortable with the Cards only 6.5 back--feels like they're right on our tails compared to the 11 game lead I've grown accustomed to.
Cardinals, stop that. Right now.
In a year or two, a lot of fans are going to point at trading him as a mistake. He'll probably be slashing something like 280/400/480 for Seattle at the time. Of course, by WAR, he'll still be worth less than 3, since we're talking zero defensive value.
vogelbomb debut for tacoma (AAA SEA)... 3-3, 1bb, 1 HR, 1 double...DH'd.
while he mostly played 1st considerably more than DH for AAA CHC, DJ Peterson is probably going to see most of the time at 1st for AAA SEA.


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On the ground: There's something about cafes in shops that aren't cafes. Perhaps it's the feeling you're not meant to be taking caffeine there among the crazed pre-Christmas shopping crowds. Case in point: Stickman Cafe. It's a new addition to the expanded Pak'n Save at Clarence Street and the first no-frills impression suggests nothing extraordinary. A Caffiend reader thought otherwise. "Best coffee in town - believe it or not - is at the Stickman Cafe. The coffee is the only thing with frills in the store. ;)"
Caffiend had his doubts, but pushed them aside and made a purchase. The staff were friendly and warm. The regular double was cheap, too. Caffiend took his brew into the aisles for a bout of shopping and took a sip. The froth was creamy and the flavour was almost perfect. It was smooth, rich and the right temperature. How could this be? Stickman Cafe had just undercut half the cafes at the south end of Victoria Street and outdone most of them. Once the extension work on the supermarket is finished, there will be a couple of chairs and tables to sit on at Stickman. If the standard of coffee continues, it may become the prime people-watching coffee house in Hamilton.
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Published: 2013-08-13 18:41:07.0 BdST Updated: 2013-08-13 19:25:25.0 BdST
Bangladesh's forex reserves have reached a record $ 16 billion, spurred by a double-digit growth in exports and low food imports, according to the central bank Governor.
"You can attribute this remarkable feat to a combination of factors," Governor
Atiur Rahman told bdnews24.com.
"A slump in food imports thanks to high agricultural output, improvement in payment system and a double-digit export growth have all contributed," he said in exclusive remarks to bdnews24.com.
"This is enough to foot the import bill for five and a half months," Atiur Rahman, whose four-and-a-half years in charge has seen the reserves treble.
The reserves reached $ 16.03 billion to be precise, only second to India in South Asia.
The figure is $ 6 billion more than Pakistan's, Atiur Rahman pointed out.
India has reserve of $277 billion, higher than the US, according to Aug 2 data.
Forex Reserve and Treasury Management Division General Manager Kazi Saidur Rahman said buoyant remittance flow and increased export income had helped the reserve reach the new height.
He said July saw a 24 percent increase in export income and 15 percent in remittance flow apart from amount disbursed by the donors.
According to the official, expatriate Bangladeshis had remitted $322.2 million in the first nine days of August while the amount was $1.23 billion in July ahead of the Eid.
He said Bangladesh received a record $14.46 billion in remittance in the previous fiscal which was 12.6 percent higher than the fiscal before. The export income in the 2012-13 fiscal was $27.02 billion, 11.18 percent higher than the year before.
"The non-resident Bangladeshis are increasingly relying on regular banking system to remit money," Saidur Rahman said.
The informal process – known as hundi – is no longer the preferred choice, leading to a bigger inflow into the central bank coffers, the Governor said.
"We have done quite a bit to improve our payment systems," Atiur Rahman added.
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In September I will be going on a trip to Utah, Arizona and possibly New Mexico too. Besides of landscapes I would like to take photos of the wildlife. Could you recommend any places that are particular good for wildlife photos / have a denser wildlife poulation where wildlife is easy to spot?
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Marina 101
|Marina 101
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|Dubai, United Arab Emirates
|25°05′22.23″N 55°08′56.12″E / 25.0895083°N 55.1489222°ECoordinates: 25°05′22.23″N 55°08′56.12″E / 25.0895083°N 55.1489222°E
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Marina 101 is a 101 storey, 426.5 m (1,399 ft) tall skyscraper currently under construction in Dubai Marina, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. While originally scheduled for completion in 2012, it is still under construction. The completion was expected by the end of 2014, and but now it will be opening in 2015.[2] As of September 2014, Marina 101 stands at over 80% completed.[1][3][4] The building is designed by National Engineering Bureau and construction is by Turkish conglomerate TAV Construction.[4]
The first 33 floors of the skyscraper will have a 5-star Hard Rock hotel with 281 rooms, while the floors from 34 to 100 will have residential apartments.[5] Apart from five restaurants in the hotel tower, there will be
252 one-, 204 two-, and 42 three-bedroom apartments with 6 duplex penthouses from the 97th to the 100th floor.[3] The 101st floor of the skyscraper will feature a club lounge, restaurant and a Rock Shop merchandise store.[6] As of 2015, the building has been topped-out at 426 m (1399 ft) tall.
Marina 101 will be the tallest residential building in the world.[3]
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- List of tallest buildings in Dubai
- List of tallest buildings in Asia
- List of tallest buildings in the United Arab Emirates
- List of tallest buildings in the world
- ^ a b "Marina Facts : CTBUH Skyscraper Database". CTBUH. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^ Parag Deulgaonkar. "Video: @ 465m high... Marina's tallest tower". Emirates 24-7.
- ^ a b c Parag Deulgaonkar. "World's tallest hotel apartment in Dubai Marina by 2013". Emirates 24-7.
- ^ a b "Sheffield Holdings Limited awards Dhs1.1bn contract for Marina 101 to TAV Construction". AMEinfo. 2008-08-17. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ "Hard Rock Hotel set to open in Dubai Marina". ArabianBusiness.com. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Hard Rock Hotel headed to Dubai Marina". The National. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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This week Nick Dinicola and I discuss both the single player and multiplayer experience of a game that features a nod to the meticulous planning of the heist and all the frenetic pleasure produced by getting the chance to play out that moment when all that planning goes terribly wrong. Ironically, it is this lat bit that makes the game great. Monaco reveals the pleasure of making mistakes.
This podcast is also available via iTunes.
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G. Christopher Williams is the Multimedia Editor at PopMatters.com. You can find his weekly updates featured at the Neuromance blog.
Nick Dinicola is also a regular contributor to the Moving Pixels blog and appears regularly on the Game Hounds podcast.
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Mozilla Firefox 27 Delivers Better Security, Performance
There are 13 security advisories attached to the Firefox 27 release, four of them ranked as being critical. As is common in nearly all Firefox release updates, one of the critical updates is for a group of vulnerabilities that Mozilla labels "Miscellaneous memory safety hazards."
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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre 2016.07.27 Adds LightDM as Default Display Manager
André Fabian Silva Delgado proudly announced the availability for download of the live ISO images of the Parabola GNU/Linux-libre 2016.07.27 operating system based on Arch Linux.
Modular Moto Z Android phone supports DIY and RPi HAT add-ons
Motorola and Element14 have launched a development kit for creating add-on modules for the new modular Moto Z smartphone, including an adapter for RPi HATs. We don't usually cover smartphones here at HackerBoards because most don't offer much opportunity for hardware hacking. Yet, Lenovo's Motorola Mobility subsidiary has spiced up the smartphone space this week by announcing a modular, hackable "Moto Mods" backplate expansion system for its new Android-based Moto Z smartphones.
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Valve Announces 'Living Room' Focused SteamOS
Valve has officially announced SteamOS, a new operating system designed to make Steam games big-screen friendly by offering a Steam-powered experience to the living room. Billed as a "co-operating system," Steam OS gives more control to users and developers.
Valve claims "the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they've been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation."
Four new Steam features will be added with a living room focus:
- In-home Streaming: All your Windows and Mac games can be played on your SteamOS machine. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have – then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
- Music, TV, Movies: Valve is working with many popular media services to bring them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.
- Family Sharing: Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another's games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.
- Family Options: The living-room is family territory. That's great, but you don't want to see your parents' games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.
SteamOS will be available soon for users as a free download, and for manufacturers as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers.
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