[AGL] ed ward reacts to the Marc Andreeson story in the New Yorker

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Bob Simmons called our attention to Ed Ward's latest
blog. I read it earlier today and I just reread it and it
still doesn't make any sense to me. But Ed is often
a fun read and I recommend subscribing to the RRS
feed of his blog "City on a Hill." see attached screen
grab for an overview of the writing on his blog.
A RSS feed subscription for your favorite talking heads
is the best way to keep with what they are saying.

His blog is still set up as "City on a Hill" which refers
to the years he blogged from Montpellier France - the old
part of the city is in fact on a hill. Previously, he blogged
from Berlin Germany where he lived for 15 years after
leaving Austin. As he is a major foodie, he was a happy
camper tummy-wise whilst living in Montpellier. Those
bloggings I believe are still on his page and they are
quite interesting. He has less to say now because
he is merely an American living in Amerika whereas
as an expatriate in France, his struggles to make his
way there and what he found are fascinating. Your
mileage may vary. I found them fascinating because it
reminds me of the strangeness of swimming against
the resistance of the French culture, calculating always
what one will do if the other does this or the other thing,
a kind of cultural chess game. Or indeed the strangeness
of just being a foreigner there. Whereas his writings
nowadays issuing forth from somewhere in south Austin
lack the edge that they had abroad.


On 6/11/2015 1:17 PM, Bill Killeen wrote:
> Great article.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:09 PM, telebob at gmail.com 
> <mailto:telebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://wardinfrance.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-digital-overlords-speak.html

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