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Reasonable reflections on Tucson, site wipings and Twitter Trigger
fingers...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09bai.html?_r=2&hp
  

    
That Cibelle video is blasting in the background as I type this -
thanks, Bruce, if we could just run a set of closing titles over that
soundtrack, we'd have a very fine end to this year's State of the
World.

Thanks to all who commented here, via email, and on Facebook, and all
who posted pointers here and there so that we were less obscure than
usual. Thanks to Ted for his many comments, a kind of de facto
moderation of the generally immoderate conversation. Thanks to the WELL
for once again giving us a bonfire to rally around. (And to those of
you who asked "Is the WELL still around?" - yes, indeed, very much so,
despite the ongoing proliferation of social media platforms for
drive-by conversation. You can still get real sustained conversation
for a modest monthly fee at http://well.com.)

Obvious thanks to Cibelle Cavalli, the Abravanistas, and all
practitioners of anthropophagic syncretism wherever they may jam.

And speaking of SXSW and Plutopia, you'll find Bruce and I both there
- he's keynoting and I'm leading a panel of journalists talking about
news apps. And we'll be at Plutopia, playing. If you're into this
conversation you shouldn't miss SXSW, a veritable orgy of geek
schmoozing.

So long, until next year.
  

    
Thanks for sharing, Jon and Bruce, and all who have posted and lurked.

Cibelle is fantastic, a real live Idoru.

One of the most favorite things I stumbled upon last year was a hacker
phrase:

AFK > IRL   (away from keyboard...in real life)

To which the response was: Everything is real life, dude!

May the Dude abideth with us all!
  

    
It was kind of people to put up with me -- yet again.

Drop by the blog, or the Twitter stream.  The ceaseless flow of
not-very-good but heavily-linked writing will continue!  @bruces

http://blog.wired.com/sterling
  

    
Thanks, Bruce. You have me thinking on new tangents again this year,
and I love that.
  

    
This anthropophagy idea has been around for more than 90 years. 

From _Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil_ by
Caetano Veloso
NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2002
ISBN 0-375-40788-X

(155-156) Manifesto da poseia pau-brazil (Brazilwood Manifesto) of
1924 and Manifesto antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto) of 1928 [by Oswald
de Andrade]. These two texts of extraordinary beauty, both descended,
like the European manifestos, from Marinetti's Futurism, were a
rediscovery of and a new foundation for Brazil...

The second manifesto develops and exposes the metaphor of devouring.
We Brazilians should not imitate but rather devour new information from
wherever it comes.