tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post5185991361894993563..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: There is more to knowledge than a Wikipedia searchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-8584773509728252422012-07-13T09:19:09.100+01:002012-07-13T09:19:09.100+01:00A relevant news story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/...A relevant news story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18813237Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-59671485540401013072012-07-10T14:14:59.046+01:002012-07-10T14:14:59.046+01:00I had a weird experience back in 2007, right befor...I had a weird experience back in 2007, right before I got laid off and we decided to risk living 'off-world' as Elsie calls it (she grew up in NYC and Rome). We were in the middle of a mangrove swamp on Sanibel, riding our bikes when I got a call on my cellphone. I was frankly, surprised there was reception, as I had seen no towers. It was a pianist, asking me questions about leaving out certain notes in my big piano piece, BlueStrider. I (and others) had been working 12 years to get it performed in NYC; it had already been played in Ann Arbor, Sydney, and a few other places. Finally Joseph Pehrson had gotten somebody interested and the pianist (Paul Hoffmann) was on the phone. <br /><br />I knew the passage he was talking about and I got off my bike, standing in the sun, surrounded by nothing but semi-tropical mangrove swamp, alligators and roseated spoonbills and we went through it and discussed the different options. It suddenly dawned on me that all my NYC friends, all my social contacts, all the time I'd spent shmoozing, all the parties I'd gone to had all amounted to squat and it was only the Internet that was working for me. <br /><br />So, I might as well live some place beautiful. ;)jeff_harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02974264062967468882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-8240675386843064712012-07-10T14:14:34.521+01:002012-07-10T14:14:34.521+01:00I had a weird experience back in 2007, right befor...I had a weird experience back in 2007, right before I got laid off and we decided to risk living 'off-world' as Elsie calls it (she grew up in NYC and Rome). We were in the middle of a mangrove swamp on Sanibel, riding our bikes when I got a call on my cellphone. I was frankly, surprised there was reception, as I had seen no towers. It was a pianist, asking me questions about leaving out certain notes in my big piano piece, BlueStrider. I (and others) had been working 12 years to get it performed in NYC; it had already been played in Ann Arbor, Sydney, and a few other places. Finally Joseph Pehrson had gotten somebody interested and the pianist (Paul Hoffmann) was on the phone. <br /><br />I knew the passage he was talking about and I got off my bike, standing in the sun, surrounded by nothing but semi-tropical mangrove swamp, alligators and roseated spoonbills and we went through it and discussed the different options. It suddenly dawned on me that all my NYC friends, all my social contacts, all the time I'd spent shmoozing, all the parties I'd gone to had all amounted to squat and it was only the Internet that was working for me. <br /><br />So, I might as well live some place beautiful. ;)jeff_harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02974264062967468882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-87322305991238065402012-07-10T12:28:14.143+01:002012-07-10T12:28:14.143+01:00Jeff, I admire Elsie for taking that decision. Fra...Jeff, I admire Elsie for taking that decision. Frankly I have agonised for some time over whether I want to be part of the self regarding social media community. <br /><br />Like Elsie I try to limit my posts there to factual updates, but still wonder whether that is too much. <br /><br />I have written previously about the new media hermits. Are we seeing the emergence of the Facebook-lites and Twitter-lites?Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1710437931589683232012-07-10T12:07:57.903+01:002012-07-10T12:07:57.903+01:00Interesting that you write this now as just 2 week...Interesting that you write this now as just 2 weeks ago, Elsie decided to effectively leave FB (except for posting pictures of new paintings) and for exactly the reasons you suggest - closed knowledge spaces create their own dynamic between questions and the answers and constrain the dialog between artists and audiences and other artists.jeff_harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02974264062967468882noreply@blogger.com