Tired/Wired #1

Since its inception in the early nineties of last century, Wired Magazine has run a series called Tired/Wired. It highlights what is hot and what is not in cyber culture.

Here is my first Tired/Wired entry backed (or fronted) by a song by my musical hero Gainsbourg:

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“Qui est In Qui est Out” (1966) by Gainsbourg

(The above composition also counts as World Music Classic #28 )

Tired/Wired

Please excuse the inclusion of my project. It is more a question of ambition than of reality. MUSE and JSTOR feature the best academic info but they keep it behind a walled enclosure.
Further rationales:

  • Wikipedia feels bloated today, Wikisource is getting up to speed (great for contemporary historical info in the public domain)
  • Google books has been a reliable source for some time now and is only getting better, Google itself contains too many Wikipedia clones
  • Downloading: only did this once, and downloaded some 250 tracks during a two month period which I subsequently lost, so I never downloaded again, I’ve always been in favor of the server-centric model proposed by SUN Microsystems rather than the client-centered model of that bête noire of computing Microsoft
    • Youtube satisfies my every music and moving images whim
  • Wikicommons is featuring a better and better image database free for use for any writer and blogger

7 thoughts on “Tired/Wired #1”

  1. lichanos

    Thanks for the swingin’ time capsule. Serge looks cool in that suit – the French have a style! I know little of him, other than his hit with J. Birkin and their portrait by Newton. Nice to see a bit of what he was like in pop cult of the day.

  2. adam

    might want to change “Wired/Tired” to “Tired/Wired” to avoid confusion…. by the way, love the blog. been linking to your site for years on the trail of obscure jewels, so i’m glad to subscribe to a newsletter of sorts. peace.

  3. jahsonic

    Adam,

    Thanks for the the hint and the compliment.

    I left the title intact but change the instances in the text.

    Thanks again

    Jan

  4. lichanos

    I still don’t get the nature of your pop-cult wiki. Isn’t much of the material on Wikipedia? Why have you created this separate “portal?” You mentioned criteria that Wikipedia imposes – what are they?

    I’m just trying to figure this out…Are there standards in this wiki-realm?

  5. jahsonic

    Yes, lots of the material is featured on Wikipedia, in fact, most of the art and pop pages will take their first draft pages from the corresponding Wikipedia article. But my wiki allows me to include many more pages, such as the Romantic Agony page you featured on your blog.

    Also, you could compare today at my wiki to today at Wikipedia. Or my version of 1968.

    At its most basic, see my wiki as my personal note-taking platform enjoyable to others too.

    But your reaction is of course telling, it was the reaction many people had and still have with Jahsonic.com: “I don’t get it.”

    Wikipedia’s most contentious criteria are NPOV and Notability.

    I hope I explained a little why I feel this drive to create the art and pop wiki.

    Jan

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