[silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html Considering the interest in anthropology on silk, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here already. I found it interesting that the author uses the differing aesthetics of Myspace and

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Raul Siddhartha
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html Considering the interest in anthropology on silk, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here already. Interesting read... thanks :-) [ A couple of her essays were included in Joel Spolsky's Best of Software Writing I compilation... ]

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/26/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html I kinda made a similar point (with what is known in Indian parlance as a lot of masala :-)) on my blog about a year ago. Of course,

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Srini Ramakrishnan said the following on 26/06/2007 12:10: I kinda made a similar point (with what is known in Indian parlance as a lot of masala :-)) on my blog about a year ago. Of course, the piece is not empirically backed, it's a blog. No,

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-06-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/22/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 05:53 PM 6/20/2007 ] [...] And what does the last sentence mean, as well? That Taiwan and Tiber are at military risk? Explain, please. I'll have to wait

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-06-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: China treats Taiwan as a yet to be annexed portion of mainland China; I wouldn't be surprised if in the minds of the Chinese mandarins (!) Taiwan is treated no differently from Hong Kong. Here too the US could make things rather queer for the

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-06-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/26/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: China treats Taiwan as a yet to be annexed portion of mainland China; I wouldn't be surprised if in the minds of the Chinese mandarins (!) Taiwan is treated no differently from Hong

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2007 1:01 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html The article says: when orkut grew popular in India, the caste system was formalized within the system by the users. Could someone explain please? I have never entered the

Re: [silk] [tt] Tesla vindicated: wireless power

2007-06-26 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:09:05PM -0400, Bruce Metcalf wrote: At work we use inductive coupling to power several dozen wireless vehicles. These aren't small, as some are moving theaters that carry 120 people, and our newest installation is a small fleet of electric

Re: [silk] [tt] Tesla vindicated: wireless power

2007-06-26 Thread Bruce Metcalf
shiv sastry wrote: On Monday 18 Jun 2007 7:39 am, Bruce Metcalf wrote: At work we use inductive coupling to power several dozen wireless vehicles. These aren't small, as some are moving theaters that carry 120 people, and our newest installation is a small fleet of electric submarines.

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: blog is my #1 on the annoyance scale .. funny thing, sounds like blob in the sense of something sticky and loathsome you step on without warning, and its sound, the way it is pronounced, sounds similarly disgusting too (diarrhetic, almost) Given the verbal

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2007 5:29 am, Venkat Mangudi wrote: So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate? It's a stupid sounding word reminiscent of the sound heard at the start of a particularly large and disgusting vomit in a previously serene and clean environment. shiv

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Madhu M Kurup
Oh no Udhay: -- [1] for those silklisters who've not heard of Eric Raymond yet, I will pull you down to our level by posting the URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ -- And I had to then inevitably do the what-is-Eric-upto, to land on this: From:

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 27 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate? I guess it is the same as when management speaks about 'leveraging' and 'competencies'. It's not the word, per se, but the person who is using them. And it isn't the right thing to do either. I tuned