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The End of Objectivity

I only apologize a little bit for using this ambiguous title. I think there are indeed (at least) two different interpretations that both seem valid, but oddly both interpretations also seem relevant. One interpretation is that there is a point where objectivity will stop — and that is the interpretation that actually motivated me to… Continue reading The End of Objectivity

From Unprofessors versus Unprofessionals to Science versus Religion

I think in my life I’ve experienced more than my fair share of quacks. I even consider at least one such person (i.e., a “quack”) within the circle of my own close family members. Throughout the many years and decades, quacks are littered more or less all the way along my own path. Some I… Continue reading From Unprofessors versus Unprofessionals to Science versus Religion

One is Better than None

This week I met a woman from Ukraine (Tanya) who totally blew me away with how she reacted when I tried to explain to her why I prefer rational media to irrational media. I didn’t actually refer to them with these terms, because that might have been more confusing (since most “mainstream” portrayals are almost… Continue reading One is Better than None

I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob

My persistent followers (stalkers?) may have noticed by now (hopefully?) that I publish many blogs (I don’t actually count them, and sometimes I even forget that I maintain so many of them). Luckily, WordPress has a neato feature — I guess it’s an RSS feed tied to everything a WP user publishes — the feed… Continue reading I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob

Community Information versus Milieu Information

Since I have been writing about information, language, communities and milieus for quite some time, and since other people have also recently been increasingly commenting more on a wide variety of related issues, I’ve decided I should focus my attention on an insight that just happened to me in an “AHA!” sort of way. I… Continue reading Community Information versus Milieu Information

Technology (and Audience) Capture

Over the past few decades, the history of information technology has become littered with many examples of what I would like to refer to as “technology capture“. I think of this as essentially analogous to “audience capture”. Yet I feel as though in the technology industry there are a few caveats we should be particularly… Continue reading Technology (and Audience) Capture

I Read and I Write

Since I spend a lot of my time with a variety of tech gizmos, there are some people who seem curious to “figure out” what I do, and so they ask me to describe what I do. Since this has happened several times before, I have — over many years of their questions and my… Continue reading I Read and I Write

Dovetailing Boundaries with Moving Targets

I am travelling today, and I’ve just decided to combine two pretty much completely different discussions into one combinatorial confrontation. These days I find I am incessantly concerned about the “shifting sands” of propaganda, manipulation and all that jazz. I think of this sort of like investigating quicksand while I am drowning in it. In… Continue reading Dovetailing Boundaries with Moving Targets

Kleinanzeigen (a German term for “classified ads” [in English] ) as “Consumer Platform”

Irrational media are usually (simply) consumer platforms, as the content shared via irrational media cannot be rationally contextualized. [1] Since there is no agreed-upon (and shared) meaningful context available, content is normally simply consumed without being interpreted as appropriate (or inappropriate), simply because irrational media do not provide any context for such kinds of evaluations.… Continue reading Kleinanzeigen (a German term for “classified ads” [in English] ) as “Consumer Platform”

Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms

This week I will offer a little change of pace (and not merely because of a perceived lack of Ps). The other day (actually evening), I attended a “popular music” concert. How do I know it was “popular” music? By paying attention to the extremely quasi-woke Boomer radio station I regularly listen to (which is… Continue reading Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms