“We have created this social media system for ourselves where the only way to survive is to either be bland or silent”
– Jon Ronson, Channel 4 News, 17 March 2015
Continue reading“This odd hell that childhood is”
“This odd hell that childhood is, where you can be going through something in very close proximity to your parents, and they still can’t help you. You still can’t really tell anyone about it. It’s obsessed me, not just him, but generally that problem of childhood.”
– Graham Linehan, This American Life Episode 314.
Continue readingWhat happened to RobotWisdom?
Jorn Barger, 2008
As many of you know RobotWisdom was the proto-Weblog and Bjorn Barger the father of blogging. I have posted about him several times. He has drifted in and out of view since 2003, but now Ogi Djuraskovic has a very nice history of the site and Barger – Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From .