This is for Jana and for me: LOL History is officially a trend. And one I fully support!

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I only have a few minutes online–this week has been crazy with work, flying, driving, family reunions, conferences, etc. I’m even trying to fit in some “rest.” While it’s been difficult to be offline, it’s been wonderful to spend time with people I know primarily through blogging. You can skip straight down […]

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That’s The Cult of the Amateur, according to Andrew Keen. And he says that me and you and every other non-professional creating content on the Internet are responsible for “killing culture.” His book has made a bit of a splash (I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve listened to two NPR interviews), and […]

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I’ve not yet named it, because I haven’t found a suitable name. But I would like to enlist the help of the MoF crew at large. I name most of the devices that have a special place in my life, except, for some reason, my cell phone.

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John is back on IM, which makes me happy (I like having people just a window away, it helps justify my own addiction to the screen…incidentally, anyone out there who hasn’t read Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen should so. Now.) So we had a discussion about the direction he wants MoF to go in […]

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A few months ago, Wired published photographs of people’s faces in the midst of gaming. The artist indicated that we got to see “raw emotion” as people let their public face disappear. Personally, I thought it was a kind of a twisted insight into the religion of atheists (not to say that gamers are all […]

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Is it coincidence that the Protestant Reformation, the first mass revolt against the Roman Catholic Church (I’m not counting the Great Schism between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic in the 11th century), came not long after the invention of movable type in the West (again, not counting its invention and application centuries earlier by […]

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I wish I could set a data mining algorithm on my thoughts for the past fifteen years and ferret out consistent themes. I could try to Google this blog, but Mind on Fire captures only 40% of that period, and not always with great depth or consistency. No matter. I’ve been […]

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“You understand why ‘42′ and ‘AYBABTU’ are funny, and still laugh at both.”
I laughed. Also:
“You consider ‘Geek’ a complement. [sic]”
There are 18 more. via SF Signal.

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This post is the heavily edited version of something I sent to an email discussion group:
Not counting news and comics, I follow about ninety different blogs. It crossed my mind for the first time that this may not be normal. Will I suffer a nervous breakdown the next time our broadband connection […]

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