January 2011
4 posts
Long Form: Excerpts from Cognitive Surplus by Clay...
Reading Clay Shirky’s book, Cognitive Surplus. It’s an insightful read discussing some of the fundamental societal waves swelling now. As an exercise, I wanted to pull out some excerpts I enjoyed. It’s a quick combination of quotes and rephrasing.
Media production has had 15th century Gutenberg economics applied for the 500 years. That is to say “it’s expensive to...
Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
johnbattelle:
In linguistics, a phatic expression (pronounced /ˈfætɨk/) is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information.[1]The term was coined by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the early 1900s.
- You’re welcome.
+1 :)
“They want to bring good things to life.”
– A quote from an article on Richard Bejtlich’s blog on digital security (via blog.alexreinart.com via @CDixon)