Re: The fact - analysis interface
Subject: Re: The fact - analysis interface
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 7/27/10, 18:17
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

ADDED AFTER STUFF BELOW: Oh, shit, you mean Neal Ungerleider, I wrote a whole bunch about Neal Rauhauser, oh well I will send both:

Ungerleider: I would suggest you browse some of his T/S pieces and if you like what he does (I do, have been reading him for a while), go ahead and tell him we like his stuff.  Got to love this.

Rauhauser: I sent him a follow up email, some time ago now, and he did not respond.   You might have better luck.  I think people want attention directly from you, which, if true, is not a fact that should bother us.

As I understand it, he travels a lot, too.  If he is connected with people in the computer community around the University of Illinois, he might be useful to know, whether or not we like his project. U of I has a lot of computer activity: in the 1950s, a block from my school on the edge of the U of I campus, was a 3 story building filled with banks of vacuum tubes, called Illiac, and us school kids were occasionally plonked down in front of green on black screens and utilized to test primitive computerized instructional programs. Now they are building a huge thing called Blue Waters (a quadrillion operations per second). The point being i'ts a town full of computer scientists. I spend a lot of time 20 miles from there, where my mother lives.

I will take another look at Google sites, I set up a dummy project wiki there back before I decided to try adapting a blog format; I do not remember what caused me to choose the latter.  I can see where the mailing list could get to be a pain.

What sort of stuff do the Faster Times folks put on the Google Site at TFT?  I assume it's an in-house thing, so I can't go look at it.

My laptop finally had to be replaced, that killed a day, other stuff also intruding, but hope to find some reading time to pursue Neuromancer.

  Clark


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, you think I should get in touch with this Neal fellow?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
One of the expressions of doubt we have encountered about the usefulness of Project PM is that it networks mostly blogs and is thus deficient in bringing factual material to readers.  I thought this piece by Neal Ungerleider articulates a valid insight in that regard: to the extent online writers are looking at the vast and increasing body of raw information found online, this is essentially similar to investigative journalism and is not opinion or commentary. The comments are interesting, also.

http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/2010/07/26/wikileaks-journalism-and-me/



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