My
partner complains that I now spend all day with my bum in a chair and my face
in the laptop and there is no doubt that our minds and body must be affected by
our new style of communication……
One of the interesting literary sites to which
I’m now subscribed is Brainpickings
which turns out to be run by a young Bulgarian now working in New York and who
shares her
working methods here. I’m not sure if her "wobble board" and other devices quite fit the needs of an old
fogey like me but I was sufficiently intrigued with her mention of the “Pocket”
app to give it a test run…At the moment, my library facility is simply a “copy
and paste” of relevant URLs which I insert in a word file. We’ll see what value
this organizer can add……
It
was Adam
Curtis who made me realize last year that I should be paying more attention to
documentaries. Good
documentaries require a rare combination - knowledge of the subject;
experience of filming; appropriate selection and editing of text, images and
music; and appreciation of how to fit them together, One of the best websites
for challenging documentaries must be Thought
Maybe – which I thoroughly recommend.
You
might also like this list of the best 50
documentaries of all time - from the excellent Sight and Sound
journal. Trouble is, I feel, that they take 30 minutes to say what can be said
in 5 at most…
Mainstream
media and blog sites are so awful in their slavish repetitions of political conventional
wisdom that a search for “alternative sites” seems a suitable response. But
where to begin? A few weeks back I reported on my
findings about readable journals.
Yesterday’s post identified (for me) some
new UK sites of which Another Angry Voice was most promising
– if a bit shrill. And, by definition, “alternative” sites and mags are….well… “tribal”
ie closed to the idea of plurality, generosity or cooperation. Google “anarchist”,
“revolutionary”, “green” and other epithets
and see if I’m wrong.
Which
is why I’m currently more disposed to read the stuff which comes from the
commons network eg this
paper on policy options for the EU which came in today
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