Archive for April, 2007
Nutrition of Communication
“Social Media is simply the realization that sharks grow big only when constantly swimming after meaty fish, and whales grow huge by amassing a diet of plankton.”
- Ike Pigott
A Modest Proposal
The tenor of public discourse is changing. In some ways, it is good that market forces are starting to clean up what we see and hear through the mass media (no one took a principled stand on Don Imus - it was a matter of advertisers voting with their feet, marching to different programs…)
The [...]Reading Between the Lines
“Never underestimate the damage bargain-basement homebrew Freudians can cause with their refusal to believe that a banana might, in fact, just be a banana.”
- Ike Pigott
The Internet is a Sewer
“This is the internet: when you write stuff, you MUST assume people will be ‘reading from the gutter.’ ‘Gutter‘ is the default setting.”
- Ike Pigott, to Andrea Weckerle.
Score a Zero
Yes, I did - because apparently someone in India did first.
Let me explain.
In a previous post, I gave credit for “nothing” to the wrong culture:
“It is the spatial equivalent of the Arabs inventing the Zero.”
Well, as Occam’s RazR reader Atanu Dey points out ever so elequently:
“The first indubitable appearance of a symbol for zero appears [...]
