BRAIN FART on somethings … :P
Pope Benedict XVI’s comment
Those who think that “concrete things we can touch are the surest reality” are deceiving themselves
Made me wonder the profundity of virtual (online) stuff especially Second Life! I somehow feel The Pope is setting double standards. Thoughts like
those who seek “success, career or money are building on sand”
need to be taken with a pinch of salt or perspective shall we say?
Boing Boing points towards Obama supports “open debates”: remix, reuse, comment, re-distribute.
I am a strong believer in the importance of copyright, especially in a digital age. But there is no reason that this particular class of content needs the protection. We have incentive enough to debate. The networks have incentive enough to broadcast those debates. Rather than restricting the product of those debates, we should instead make sure that our democracy and citizens have the chance to benefit from them in all the ways that technology makes possible.”
Thumbs up from me. Words are coming from someone who understands open content and open technology! Ideally the finance bill being passed through should also have seen the light of the day in a similar fashion according to me, at least for the people from the financial corporate world.
Epeus’ epigone points to an amazing quote by David Foster Wallace that resonated in me completely:
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
The blog post also takes inspiration from nature in terms of how applications can be viral. Something I personally subscribe to. We have a lot of learn simply by just observing nature!
