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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:32 pm        Reply with quote

I don't really believe in information overload. The human mind is exceedingly adept at filtering data. If you don't want to see it, don't look at it. Problem solved.

Also I like how web 2.0 is "ruining the music industry" - as opposed to, you know, the studio system that uses computer algorithms to grind out 3.2 minute hits. Give me a break.
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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:30 pm        Reply with quote

L wrote:
dmauro wrote:
Take "Wizard People, Dear Reader" for instance. It's the first great work of the 21st century,
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Just for starters.

You can find mp3s of the whole thing by just googling the title. It is truly brilliant.

Stott wrote:
See also: why the console games industry continues to beat the living shit out of the pc games industry.

I think that has more to do with cost and technical barriers of entry. But this has been done a million times.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:22 pm        Reply with quote

It's really not the same thing at all, but they share a common ancestry.
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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:30 am        Reply with quote

You're mostly right taidan. Still, it's worth pointing out that what the guy is doing is taking someone else's art and co-opting it wholesale for an entirely new narrative. That's sort of groundbreaking, in its way.

Also, mostly it's just funny, but Dumbedore's monologue about the mirror thing is seriously epic.
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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:18 pm        Reply with quote

I think it's worth noting an oft-inconsidered fact: that Wikipedia and Britannica? Both exist. Yeah.

If one were threatening the existence of the other, then there might be cause for argument. As it is, they are complementary resources which have their own strengths and weaknesses. Use each for its strengths; avoid indulging its weaknesses. Problem solved.
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CubaLibre
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:09 pm        Reply with quote

I mean, yeah, but the self-described Wikipedians are the same in their crusade against the stuffy elitist establishment, which, even if it is stifling, got to be that way for a reason, that being that it's pretty useful for a lot of things.

Point is, neither kind of absolutism is necessary, or helpful.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:15 am        Reply with quote

parkbench wrote:
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If one were threatening the existence of the other, then there might be cause for argument. As it is, they are complementary resources which have their own strengths and weaknesses. Use each for its strengths; avoid indulging its weaknesses. Problem solved.


No, they don't "both exist." When's the last time you picked up an encyclopedia over going to wikipedia? I'm pretty sure one is gaining almost every day.

I won't deny the flaws in Wikipedia, but it gets such a bad rap for all its theoretical shortcomings. Show me the article that says George Bush is an alien and I'll agree with you. Otherwise, it's pretty solid.

I mean, yes. Yes, they do both exist. I mean, yeah.

When's the last time I walked over and picked up an encyclopedia? In high school, when I had to do a research paper. When's the next time I will? In law school, when I have to do a research paper. I look at Wikipedia all the time, because my entire professional reputation doesn't depend on whether the information I'm idly looking up on carbuerators or whatever is completely correct.

Like I said, different strengths, different uses.
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