December 2010
37 posts
“Such a level of economic inequality, not seen in the United States since the eve...”
– “Why the Rich are Getting Richer,” in Foreign Affairs. (via cmonstah)
“Over the last month, I’ve done many television and radio segments about...”
– Glenn Greenwald
The best photo...
… tends to be the one you don’t take, for whatever reason. I just added another one to my “album.” I was 30,000 feet above the Atlantic, on my way to Holland, and I briefly looked out of the window of the plane into the early night. At that very moment, there was a falling star, impossible to tell how far away, but it looked as if it fell to about the height the plane was...
More on journalism and the arts
It’s fascinating how debates about journalism and debates about Flickr essentially all start from the same points. The positions, simplified here for shortness are:
“We can’t leave the picking of news (photographs) in the hands of elites. We gain a lot from having access to a larger variety.”
“Without someone editing (‘curating’) important news (good...
“Life was good, and now it’s even better. Thank you, Republicans. And a special...”
– Larry David: Thanks for the Tax Cut! - NYTimes.com (via kattykay)
“As Reason magazine’s Radley Balko and others have documented, America now faces...”
– Scott Horton
Notes on notes on 2010
Marc has his notes on 2010 up, which you want to read.
Couple things. When I wrote my little post on photobooks yesterday, noting that
“The (minor) irony here is that the internet - which according to the standard narrative will do away with printed media - has actually facilitated the spread of photobooks.”
I almost added a comment writing how I anticipated the “too many...
Oh boy
When I read this, all I could think was “Oh boy”. Where to start? The most shocking aspect here is that Mr. Kuwayama doesn’t even seem to understand the concerns behind most of the questions. Very, very sad.
"Person(s) of the Year"
There is a certain silliness to that whole “person of the year” thing. But it’s kind of interesting to compare Mark Z. with Julian A. - one doing away with all our own secrets and being celebrated, the other one doing away with our government’s secrets and being in the dog house.
“It still seems an unwritten rule in establishment Washington that homophobia is...”
– Frank Rich
Being Republican about art
Take it away, Stephen Colbert. (via)
Bonus: Making fun of art speak in the best possible way. Genius.
Being Republican about photobooks
I think if you compared my own, yet-to-be-published list of “best of 2010” photobooks with Jeff’s there’s very little “agreement”. That aside, when I see comments like “I don’t consider myself a republican about photography but really I don’t understand why you have choosen these books.” (reblogged here) I can’t help but be quite a...
“The structural impossibility of running someone off the Internet means that...”
– David Campbell
Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You... →
jinscho:
To focus only on WikiLeaks is to miss the big picture of what’s happening with information — just like focusing only on Napster in 1999 would have led you to miss the bigger revolution in digital music. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records....
“The basic question is not whether we think Julian Assange is a terrorist or a...”
– The Economist
