Drawing a bead

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Happy Mardi Gras. The beadcam shows a pretty tame daytime scene at this moment, but it may get more interesting this evening.

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But did he?

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Cory Doctorow quotes himself in BoingBoing:

Doctorow on Gibson in Mindjack
My review of WIlliam Gibson’s Pattern Recognition is up on Mindjack today. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” This is, after all, the man who coined the word “cyberspace”…

Ah, but did he? My understanding is that Gibson “merely” popularized the word cyberspace and that its existence predated him. I will now have to check this because either Cory’s greater credibility is rewriting my memory of past analyses of this or Cory is simply repeating a popular meme (“Gibson coined ‘cyberspace’”) without realizing that is it an oversimplification.
Gibson definitely gave “matrix” its connotation of a shared cyberspatial reality.

'I get it' meme update

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We’ve recently started an independent blog conference on the Well, and Salon blogger Bruce Umbaugh reminded me of a klog-related epiphany I wrote about in an entry back in August called I get it.
At time I asked people to link to it as “xian gets it” but while I was correcting the permalink and a few other links in the article (I left the slightly sloppy draft as is), this time I changed the text to request that anyone linking to the article use the entry’s actual title, “I get it.” This seems like a much more interesting and valuable phrase to relate to (I imagine the people searching for “I get it” would be an interesting demographic to be reaching) than some arbitrary assertion about me, with my negative Q rating and all.
Having changed the entry and added an update note at the end, I figured I out to seed the new link. Today Google, tomorrow the world!