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Being Witnessed : Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make
After I stopped wondering
Is this Peter Mali’s brother?
This made me cry
because I realized
that the most beautiful thing about a truly good teacher
is that they see you.
And they may be the only who who does.
And you cannot see yourself
Your real need
Your real beauty
Your real challenge
Your real worth
Until someone does.
More on lawyers and cost and worth in the beta of my show The Law Project NYC 7/28/10. BUY TIX.
Heather and Alex Williams at ReadWriteWeb
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Yet another well-taken photo by the lovely Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
A thing the Right is right about
“I think the extreme parts of the right wing are completely wrong about what the idea of a militia means in the constitutional writings. But their intuition that the population has been disenfranchised by present military arrangements is certainly right.”
Levi Johnston's sister Mercede starts to blog
She’s skipping the press and going direct. Just like her almost-machatunim Sarah Palin.
“My intention in starting this blog is not to insult anybody, especially the Palins. However I will
be more determined than ever to expose the lies, and reveal the truth, about what really happened to my family.”
I’m all for truth about anything and especially about Palin who certainly looks like the next Republican Presidential nominee.
Like I said back on 9/4/08 people. She’s Eve Harrington people.
Sandra Bernhard on Sarah Palin
AC: Why do you think people are so into her?
SB: People relate to her! People want to be famous. They want to be on Real Housewives of New York and Kate Gosselin and Dancing With the Stars. They think this is the American dream. It’s not about talent; it’s not about passion. It’s not even about wanting to be a good leader. It’s just simply being acknowledged.
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SB: Oh honey, if she has a bad day, that Bumpit’s back in there.
AC: Do you think it’s gauged to how well her day’s going?
SB: [Laughs.] It’s a barometer. For sure.
Artists, please send her art> Emily Henochowicz talented Jewish visual artist lost an eye on #flotilla
Her work is beautiful and let’s encourage her to keep making it:
Send her some art or encouragement on her blog here.
I'll be performing at Audience Conference in NYC August 14th
There will be comics, and puppets. And the occasional traditional business speaker. That’s my kind of tech conference.I’ll be performing and showing how social engagement works.
Really looking forward to playing with Morgan Murphy and hoping I can sneak in some time with Loren’s Shel Israel puppet.
At Carolines on Broadway. Saturday August 14th.
My SXSW 21010 talk – Totally Gay for the Web: Coming Out as a Model for Social Media
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This is a 4:30 excerpt of a 15 min talk.Â
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tags: privacy, publics, social media, facebook, twitter, LGBT, queer, identity, self-acceptance, transparency, trolls
Facebook's "everywhere" doesn't understand some basics of meaningful social engagement
From TechCrunch’s piece on Facebook’s recent announcement/http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/21/zuckerbergs-buildin-web-default-social/
Facebooks concern for themselves over their users (and disregard of their privacy) also shows up in creating poor “social” experiences much like the ones Google Buzz made as the comment above shows. Self-agency is a core element of social engagement. Everyone participates in different publics. But technology doesn’t differentiate between them well. People do. That’s why algorithmically driven automation (made more intense by fb by default opting in people to sharing their info across the web) assumes that what one says to this group one says to everyone or even more clearly..that everyone is sharing the same context all the time. re: social-agency. I very much am a fan of openness and use it a great deal in tummeling and opening people up is part of creating a socially engaging space or conversation. But if people don’t feel they are choosing to participate, if they are doing so because of peer pressure only or because of tech defaults then the act of engagement isn’t actually engagement. Your sense of self isn’t coming with you. In FBs case it’s even lamer (Google Buzz did this too) because it’s placing information / people where it and they make no sense.By definition, controlling relationships, ones which are not consciously chosen ( and I don’t just mean initially I mean continually) are not relationships on one being WITH another. It’s one reason tummeling is so critical. It’s how we people can help make connections but it is based on seeing the other person and connecting with them subjectively. (Facebook and Google in its own way) aren’t trying to do this. FaceBook wants the *result* of you but they aren’t particularly interested in you. This is still industrial era relating even if it happens in a web 2.0 candy “social” shell.
