“If the claim here is that all social situations are working overtime to avoid becoming standoffs, then perhaps we do indeed need a kind of metaphorical Hostage Rescue Team to periodically rescue hostage of social life from ourselves and each other” — Robin Wagner-Pacifici in _Theorizing The Standoff: Contingency In Action_
“Selective Remembrance”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/241516.ctl — a new edited volume on archaeology and national pasts.
“Digg is restructuring”:http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/01/24/digg-demonstrates-failure-open-collaborative-networks — part of the general Web 3.0 trend to create not just collaborative networks, but collaborative networks that help us flourish, which, it turns out, means structures that are regulated rather than ruthlessly games. I see this as similar somehow to the difference between early MMOGs, where inflation and gaming the system [...]