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

[telebob]

Sorry these things are so difficult.
I actually have a subscription. So no paywall.
I thought it all made very good sense.
But everyone is free to think what they like, or not....right?

Etc 

Bob Snark
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> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I read it - and it too didn't make much sense. I'm 
> subscribed to the New Yorker's email list which
> comes every day to one's inbox. see attached
> screen grab. besides it's Ed job to put it in sharp
> focus. (watch that snarkiness, Bob!)
> 
> unless you've paid a subscription to the New 
> Yorker, you are limited to 10 articles per month.
> there's a way around this pay wall, but you'd
> have to ask me nice like to show you the way.
> 
> unfortunately the New Yorker isn't very good these
> days. pretty much the only writer worth reading
> there is Adam Gopnick. certainly not Tad Friend
> who is just a shill for Internet businesses.
> 
> 
>> On 6/11/2015 2:23 PM, telebob at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> <Ed_Ward_RSS_feed.jpg>
> 
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