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

[telebob at gmail.com]

Read the New Yorker piece by Tad Friend if you would like Ed’s work to come into sharper focus.



On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 wrote:
>> 
>>> http://wardinfrance.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-digital-overlords-speak.html
> 
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