blog.mignault.net » blog http://john.mignault.net/blog Cartoon-drawing diabetic comics-reading pen-fetishizing cycling leftist geek librarian. God, how bourgeois. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:34:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Craig’s sekrit agenda http://john.mignault.net/blog/2008/12/23/craigs-sekrit-agenda/ http://john.mignault.net/blog/2008/12/23/craigs-sekrit-agenda/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:21:42 +0000 John http://john.mignault.net/blog/?p=231 When I posted an item for sale to NY Craigslist this morning I got this captcha:

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Note the phrase. So much for all that booshwah about how it isn’t “the internet vs the MSM.”

Update: Hey, this is the 150th post!

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If anybody at Bike Friday wants to send me a Tikit in return for my aging SA 5-speed Brompton, I’d be more than happy to say really cool things about them here. We already use a Family Traveler for the school run every morning and we love it. We were zooming along singing “Gangsters” by the Specials at the top of our lungs this morning….

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I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at.

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I used to make a distinction between warm and cool voices … engaged vs. detached, involved vs. analytical. But both those entries struck me as entrants in a third category … warm, cool, and now “warmed over.” Compelled to appear engaged, but not. Interested to the extent a quota demands significations of interest at the rate of n per day, but not deeply involved or engaged, except perhaps on the level of knowing someting about a thing that others might not: That thing is popular, that thing is not popular, that thing is selling well, that thing is not selling well. Consumers like it. Observers do not like it.

Go read this right now. Mike’s “significations of interest” directly nails a bunch of what’s wrong with online right now, up to and including how words like “love” and “friend” have been co-opted by online business. When all you have a hammer, everything may seem like a nail; but it turns out to be much more efficient to call screws nails. Fuzzy thinking on my part, but go read the post.

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WordPress users, upgrade to today’s WordPress security release immediately. This fixes a vulnerability that is ‘in the wild’–examples of how to exploit can be easily found and just as easily exploited.This is not a “We’ll sit around and think about it” update. This is a “Take the steak off the bar-b-que, Joe, and put the margaritas back in the jug! We’ve got work to do!” service release.

Done here – do the same if you’re running WP.

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