“… redacted versions of all recordings of the trial proceedings will be generated, which can then be made available to researchers, legal professionals, broadcasters and news agencies, the people of Rwanda, and the international community at large.” About Rwanda.

The Web is a feed; peope will shape it as they see fit. Fighting this is like trying to stop a charging elephant with a desk fan. Embracing it? I suppose people might pay for optmiization of your data to make their gizmo function better (or to save them the time of taking your data part).

“‘You have to socialize the space before you can monetize it,’ the anthropologist concluded.” Right. I can’t wait for someone to be my friend not because he or she likes me, but because he or she wants my money. But conversation opportunities are promising. Good advertising is not propaganda. It is news about how your product or service solves problems. Conversations allow the connection between problem and solution that gets lost in the broadcast approach of most (and mostly useless) ads.

Everything fracturing, Paramount Pictures included. “Dubbed Insurge Pictures, the unit has one million dollars fueling its films. 10 movies are on tap in the first year at a budget of just $100,000 each.”

From the last setnence: “…reshaping our identities as part of a larger, interconnected whole.”

Here’s how I think the Internet is reshaping identity:

1) More acceptance and embrace of variation in personality because diverse skills are advantageous in problem-solving, and we have more problems to solve as our awareness of them increases due to the Web.

2) “Growing up” will be less about adapting to our cirumstances and more about finding circumstances which suit us, since searching and finding are immensely easier with the Internet.

3) Relationships will be overtly goal-oriented and of a more contractual, discrete nature.

4) Daily life more and more takes on the features and functions normally reserved for artistic performance as basic social and physical needs are instantly met, and more complex psychological and spiritual goals are then pursued to generate a sense of meaning.

“One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes.” Bummer.

Despite the headline, this is more of a profile of an economist who predicted the global financial crisis rather than an analysis of his expectations for the future. On that front, he offers this:

> He said the world economy was “at a breaking point.”

> He believes the stock markets are now “essentially in free fall” and “we are reaching the point of sheer panic.”

> Last week he predicted that “hundreds of hedge funds will go bust and stock markets may soon have to shut in order to stem the panic selling … The next day trading was briefly stopped in New York and Moscow.”

Good storytelling decision not to include this heavy-handed, simplistically metaphorical scene in the film. It’s very clear George Clooney wears a spacesuit. We don’t need to be hammered in the face with the idea.

Suggests the upcoming Canon HF S21 for extremely low-budget equipment. I used its predescessor and was impressed.

Reminds me of playing Infocom’s Zork as a kid. What we really need is a virtual horror environment responding as if real and broadcast into theaters.