March 2008 Archives

We live on the web and we give up our lives to the technological edge we get in the manic high of discovery and meaning.  That effort carves away bits of us in the process of propagating our hopes and yearnings into the ether for a response and a sharing.
 

We know the end of humanity is upon us when the "Porno Video Awards" are given international cable television propagation on the Showtime network.

What is the purpose of giving light and air to the disgusting and degrading underbelly of humanity when real stars like Tracey Ullman deserve our rapt attention and devotion?

As we live and die and publish and perish on the web together, it is never a delight to be told your work is suddenly missing from publication. 

I was informed yesterday that my article, "Urban Semiotic Articles Deleted from Google?" had gone missing from my Urban Semiotic blog hosted on WordPress.com.

There's nothing worse for a common end user then getting caught in a fight between two elite web titans.

This RelationShaping.com blog is only a few days old and I've already discovered my WordPress.com hosted blog, Urban Semiotic, is unable -- or unwilling? -- to accept Trackbacks from this pair Networks hosted Movable Type 4.1 blog.

With the wild rumors this week that we'll have a new 3G iPhone coming soon in the USA, one cannot escape the delight doing video iChat!

The implantation of RFID chips is a scary thought. 

We can be tracked and mapped by the greater powers as if we're a proximity card used for building access or a ride on the PATH train.

Is it appropriate that our privacy no longer belongs to us?

I have looked at Twitter and Tumblr -- and I confess I do not understand the fervent joy of their technological pull.

Do you have any idea how to train Gmail to accept mail from a properly filtered and labeled domain?

UPDATE:  April 23, 2008.  You should know this Urban Semiotic blog -- and all of David W. Boles' other domains and blogs are now hosted by Pair Networks!  We will give you more information soon on what happened and why.  We are leaving this article online to protect the chain of understanding and we will update this space as necessary.

This RelationShaping blog is running on Media Temple using Movable Type 4.1.

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