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Collapse-o-mania in NYTimes Books

There is no end to the reviewing and essaying on Jared Diamond’s new book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” Today’s New York Times Book Review has a lengthy and thoughtful essay by Gregg Easterbrook. Easterbrook reviews Diamond’s career and touches on his other books including “Guns, Germs and Steel” and “Why is […]

Collapse-o-mania continues

The promotion and discussion of Jerad Diamond‘s new book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”, continues unabated. Last week there was a full page advert in the NYTimes (as well as a review of Malcolm Gladwell‘s new book, “Blink: the power of thinking without thinking”, in the same edition). This morning, Diamond himself […]

The Rise of Collapse

Jerad Diamond speaks (or rather writes) for himself as he condenses his Collapse arguments into a long article on the editorial page of today’s NYTimes called “The Ends of the World as We Know Them”. Overall, Diamond does a better job describing his Collapse book and the stories therein than either Brand or Gladwell. He […]

Security and Liberty Forum

This is a live blog of the Security and Liberty Forum at UNC. The final agenda looks like this. PT Wright of Homeland Security has canceled. Christian Stalberg of NC-CLU, one of the organizers welcomes us. (Joey is taping the Forum for ibiblio). Don’t drink the water or wash your hands — lead (and I […]

Stutzman v Metcalfe

Ethernet inventor and failed predictor of Internet Collapses, Bob Metcalfe has taken on Fred Stutzman’s and others’ takes on the failings of Metcalfe’s Law as a visiting blogger on VCMike’s blog. Fred, like David P. Reed who corrected Metcalfe’s Law with Reed’s Law way back, has observed some serious failings in the Metcalfe formulation. Fred’s […]

Ken Rogerson of Duke on Podcasting at NCPA

He had one of the iPod grants at Duke a year ago. At this year’s debriefing, “there is no such thing as a regular iPod — now video iPod, Nano, etc” Are podcasting journalists? Complains about media overload. Now admits that he was once a reporter but then fell into academia. Trad vs New media. […]

McConville/Bucky on WUNC

WUNC’s The State of Things has discovered that David McConville and the folks at Black Mountain College know a bit about Bucky (Buckminster Fuller). So they had them on the air today at noon (and in their archives soonnow). Note: the WUNC archives and their podcasts are hosted by ibiblio.org. Tuesday, October 11, 2005 Buckminster […]

Negativland does No Business

Ole friend and culture hacker Mark Hosler writes to promote his new anti-commercial Negativland project called “No Business.” Please buy it, he says. The No Business promotion material reads: “NO BUSINESS” is not only a term Negativland’s accountant can identify with, but also a tenaciously pure attempt to make new music out of old, or […]

Gladwell’s Diamond

Malcolm Gladwell is concerned about how things change. So is Jared Diamond. Diamond is best know for his Pulitzer prize winning “Guns, Germs and Steel” in which he describes the factors that he believes have made certain civilizations triumph over others. Gladwell is perhaps most well known for his “Tipping Point: How Little Things Make […]

Notes from our second class

jurgen habermas – public sphere “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” richard florida – creative class “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life” robert putnam – bowling alone “Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community” Ray Oldenburg – third place in “A […]

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