February 2012
4 posts
“The eBook isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about an ‘exploration,’ and...”
– Gaming developer turned children’s book illustrator Jon Skuse on the future of the picturebook as a storytelling medium. (via curiositycounts)
Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation →
parabola-magazine:
…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own prominence, after you run through them for a number of years, they cease to have charge....
January 2012
18 posts
Consultancy Rock
thenewinquiry:
The solace of sociological distance in the music of Rush
by Rob Horning
Certain rock groups persist as their own subgenre. The venerable Canadian band Rush is one of them, maintaining a legion of loyalists willing to stick with them as they release album after blandly titled album — Power Windows, Presto, Test for Echo — that defiantly sell in the millions despite little...
mental_floss on tumblr: John Tyler's Grandsons Are... →
mentalflossr:
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in…
Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson
lareviewofbooks:
When John Kaye sent this report it made me realize that two of my great literary touchstones — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Tristram Shandy — have much more in common than I had ever noticed. They are both colossal failures of mission, spectacular performances of the art of being sidetracked, of being shanghaied by errant attention, or, perhaps, perfect examples of the...
Online influence tools carry no klout with me →
We all hold some form of influence over friends and industry peers, whether it is knowledge about great places to go for food, the ability to recommend a book or simply the fact that we share interesting links. Automated influence tools will never be able to pick up on these subtleties, though, because they only look at aggregated, descriptive data from our online activity to predict outcomes.
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David Lynch Keeps His Head →
tetw:
by David Foster Wallace
The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he’s peeing on a tree. Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.
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First In, First Out: Do Early Adopters Distract Us... →
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Not So Fast - Are We Lagging Behind? →
“It feels like the internet has made us faster than ever, but are we in fact lagging behind the opportunities presented by technology?”
Full Article
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Philosophy and Addiction - NYTimes.com →
“I introduce the notion of addiction as a subject of philosophical inquiry here for a reason. I am a philosopher, yes, but I am also an alcoholic who has been sober for more than 24 years ― only the last four of them as part of a recovery program. I am often asked how I got and stayed sober for those first 19 years; it was because of philosophy, which engendered in me a commitment to living...
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The Atlantic: Old, WeirDr. Neubronner's Patented... →
Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog: Technology Waves... →
thehypernet:
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to go surfing off the coast of Waikiki. The waves there are perfect because they are just the right temperature and they are forgiving enough that I can get up on the board and have a great time, despite being pretty out-of-shape. I have always been inspired by…
by way of +Chris Cullmann
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Cocebo: What In the World Is a "Cocebo"? →
cocebo:
Cocebo: noun. Anything that either enhances or dampens the effect of a placebo or nocebo; a portmanteaux of “placebo” and “nocebo” conjured up by @PhilBaumann.
The purpose of exploring the concept of cocebos is to provide an intuition pump to help us make Health Care more communal and…
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December 2011
3 posts
Democracy Depends… →
Reading List: John Jeremiah Sullivan
givemesomethingtoread:
In my time running this website I’ve discovered, rediscovered, and otherwise enjoyed the works of various writers I might not have in other circumstances. Among my favourite discoveries this year was John Jeremiah Sullivan, who I’ll leave it to James Wood to introduce, from his review of Sullivan’s latest collection of essays, Pulphead:
He seems to have in abundance...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
Boomerang Noose
Boomerang Noose by PhilBaumann
She beat the assembled with the red pleasure of authority.
Day before, she saved a kitten from a wicked house.
Last year, she took a bullet for a kidnapped girl.
The orders rained from clean offices of stubborn fog:
she caught her eye in his pupil, regretted, and then leathered his arm.
Day after, a nurse quit the trauma unit.
Next year, a market of rotted...
Steven Paul Jobs →
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September 2011
1 post
Lessons Learned from Grief →
April 2011
3 posts
Update to Readers →
Cyborg Economy: When Proletariat and Capitalist... →
Are Social Media Phony By Default? →
March 2011
1 post
Happy 5th Birthday Twitter – You Changed My Life →
October 2010
1 post
TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/30/top-30-android-apps/ Sent from my iPod Posted via email from Phil Baumann’s Posterous | Comment »
June 2010
1 post
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Healthcare Uses of Social Media
Presentation I gave on May 25, 2010 at Social Media Plus Summit on how the healthcare industry aught to understand and use social media. There’s a lot of hype about social media these day. But it’s important for an industry like healthcare to have a solid foundation in the principles of media and how to best serve patients and professionals in the right contexts and processes. So...
May 2010
5 posts
McLuhan: The past is safe, the future is dangerous
The emergence of software-as-media (Facebook, Twitter, CMSs, etc.) is making the idea’s of McLuhan more relevant than ever. McLuhan may have been dismissed, but it’s worth re-visiting his works - there’s more to them than what a first glance may show. http://bit.ly/cjJd9v Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Diaspora - Trying to Kill Facebook
Not sure if this will work, but it’s good to see the “younger” generation take a stab at keeping Privacy alive. I suspect Privacy will return and that many of the claims that “Privacy is dead” will be tested and confronted. http://bit.ly/aLrSAn Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
And Yet Again with Facebook: Leaks IP Addresses
It never ends with Facebook, huh? I haven’t deleted my account yet, but I’m wondering about it. The thing is: I’m still not entirely convinced that Facebook is destined to become a money-making machine. They could screw it up if they keep pushing the limit too far. Then again, most users have no idea what’s going on. Than again, at least their obviously more...
The Death of High Fructose Corn Syrup
I’m convinced that the overuse of refined carbs are a bigger cause of many health conditions than realized. Stuff’s a bigger public health hazard than heroin. http://bit.ly/dwPqZc Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Embeddable Tweets. 'Cuz Twitter's Bleedin' Edge ;)
So. Twitter. Gotta love ‘em. Let’s see: they’re four years old. No real innovation in those years. Well - except for the profile hover. Oh, and the new RT feature. Those set the world of fire. (I know I know, I’m a sarcastic bastard…and a hypocrite ‘cuz I love Twitter. Fair enough.) So now, you’ll be able to embed your tweets…on your blog posts....
April 2010
24 posts
The Death Of Good Creative
Loren Feldman - @1938media - gives a no-nonsense reminder about the realities of so-called engagement marketing. Click on through for the rest. http://bit.ly/cfPwgJ Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Timeline of Facebook's Privacy Nonsense
Is any of this a surprise, really? Anyhoo - I like the laying out of the timeline. http://bit.ly/cxEnhv Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
The Internet's Broken Promises
Thoughtful assessment of the promises of the Internet. http://bit.ly/bYEbux Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Facebook's Hidden Hate Button -
Perhaps the saddest thing about Facebook (note: I do think there are good things) is that most users seem utterly unware of the way Facebook is changing things; unaware of FB’s ever-changing Privacy settings; little idea about how expansive the recent f8 announcements could be (in fact I’d say a huge percentage of users don’t even know what the heck f8 is or what its impact...
Quote from Roger Waters (on Social Media) -
http://bit.ly/cYvD4U Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Consumer Democracy vs. Good Governance -
Thoughtful piece on the need for balancing popular sentiment and proper governance. See the clips below or click through to the whole story… http://bit.ly/ah82Ut Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Insomnia insomnia insomnia
Fascinating story of Peter Tripp… http://bit.ly/cL9v9N Posted via web from @PhilBaumann | Comment »
Time to Rethink Facebook
What will be the net effect on the Web as more people leave their footprints as they Like what they find? If Privacy erodes - in part because the bulk of Facebook users are ignorant or confused about their their profile settings - what happens to Trust? Can we trust if we’re no longer private? Andrew Keen raised this on Twitter. Ah - there’s a question. http://bit.ly/c1SbIZ ...