The World According to John K.
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The creator of Ren and Stimpy takes his iconoclasm to the web, where he intends to revitalize the staid world of advertising. Wired News interview by Daniel Dumas.
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Q: On with us right now is the man who takes all the heat. He is the man at the top, as far as the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan are concerned.
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By Tom Angleberger   tomangleberger@yahoo.com
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I just woke up in Paris, it's 5:34AM here, but back in California, it still never ceases to amaze me, the day hasn't yet flipped. You guys haven't even gone to bed yet! Now that's amazing to me. What perseverence! Keep up the good work everybody.  I just started posting a couple of twits that really should be a blog post, so let's get started. First at some point, after a suitable period of mourning, I'd like to rasie the issue of what's to happen with Marc Orchant's web presence. Which of course is a way of focusing attention on all of our web presences.  None of us like to think of it, but truth is none of us are going to live forever. Yet if you read this, it's likely that you're creating a digital body that can and imho should continue to exist even after your physical body stops existing. People are humble, no one wants to come out and say their work has any value that's worth preserving past their death, but come on, we know that's not true. If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing on the web. As would Hemingway or Faulkner, Vonnegut or Mailer, John Lennon or Dylan Thomas, Carl Sandberg or Robert Frost. Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. You think there isn't any great literature out there on the web? I wouldn't be so sure about that. What if there is? And what if a baby born today becomes a great creative force? Or what if there's a social disaster like the Holocaust? Did you know that there are preserved diaries from pre-revolutionary America? Writings of ordinary people can be of enormous help to historians. And if we believe in citizen journalism (I do) why not citizen historians? Shouldn't we be thinking out into the future? We should! With all possible humility, I'd like to tell you that a few days after I die my entire web presence will likely disappear. My servers require some attention from me from time to time. The first time that happens, poof, there goes 10-plus years of Scripting News, and all the docs for the OPML Editor and the OPML spec, the XML-RPC site, to name just a few. Anyway, within a couple of months it will all certainly disappear, unless someone pays my hosting and DSL bills. Maybe someone will, but isn't it ridiculous that that's what it depends on? And when my sites disappear so will my uncle's. He died in 2003. His site is still accessible because I keep it that way. When I die, who will will take over for me? I'm sure the world will survive without his writing, but why? If I love the memory of my uncle, and I do, what can I do to reserve a place for him in the archive of the future. It seems such a small thing, but it's most of what remains of his life.  And what of academics, Nobel Laureates and others? I know for a fact that a great university (Harvard) has no plan to protect their web-based work after they pass. It's so ironic that the web offers an archival solution for non-digital work, yet the web information is more fragile than the physical stuff. Preserving our digital heritage is going to require some foresight, some planning, but it seems possible and we surely can do much better. Marc's fate awaits us all. While we're still alive, there's still time to solve this problem. When we're gone, it will be too late. Part of his legacy can be that he helped focus us on this issue, and his life work could be a great test case. Do we want to see his work preserved? And if so, how will it be done? PS: The RSS 2.0 site will likely persist, because I gave it to Berkman, and then used it as a test case to learn about future-safing. It seems likely to continue to exist, knock wood, praise Murphy, as long as Harvard exists.
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This is the question posed by Will Hurley of BMC.  After chatting with him today about life, the upcoming elections, and the open source community in general, I decided that I am pretty curious about how to answer that question myself. read more
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[Hollywood News]: London, Dec 7 : Sir Elton John has been honoured with Kennedy Center Honors for his outstanding contributions to the American culture.
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The world's greatest detective takes on the ultimate incarnation of cosmic madness through video games and literature. In Table of Malcontents.
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Thereâs still a number of outstanding issues, some in the public domain. Itâs fairly obvious what they are. âWe will continue over the next day or so to bring those to conclusions.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A15 of the November 1, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. AS I had noted earlier, the US presidential election looks so much like our
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Last week, the world witnessed the passing of a man who brought the plight of Palestine to the forefront of the international consciousness of humanity.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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There is another election this week. The issues are not war, taxes, morals or international credibility. They are microbes, diseases, data and international credibility.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Richard Branson conquered the world. Now he wants to fly you to space. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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D uring the past several weeks coverage of the elections in Ukraine by the Bangor Daily News has provided useful information pertaining to a global community rather than just a global economy.
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By Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times  Feb. 12--Watching Steve Jobs is giving me a sense of deja vu.   The Apple boss is reminding me of the way Bill Gates acted in the late  1990s, before the crash. Gates was on top of the world then.