This man is a hacker.
Apr. 22nd, 2005 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheI like this guy. He thinks.
This essay, for example, is about heretical thoughts, and their relation to the world As It Is, instead of the world as It Should Be. (A subject you should appreciate,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erudito.)
This essay is about the insidious nature of PR companies, and their stultifying effects on 'real' journalism, with a sideline on why he thinks that this influence has driven the popularity of blog journalism.
Then there is "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas". Or this, or this. I haven't even begun to read through his writings, and I'm impressed.
You really should go here and start reading.
He is a hacker, in all the good senses of the word. He also hacks ideas.
This essay, for example, is about heretical thoughts, and their relation to the world As It Is, instead of the world as It Should Be. (A subject you should appreciate,
erudito.)This essay is about the insidious nature of PR companies, and their stultifying effects on 'real' journalism, with a sideline on why he thinks that this influence has driven the popularity of blog journalism.
Then there is "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas". Or this, or this. I haven't even begun to read through his writings, and I'm impressed.
You really should go here and start reading.
He is a hacker, in all the good senses of the word. He also hacks ideas.
