Colloquial - "(I use 'talk to' here in its colloquial sense of 'type quickly to.')" (Shirky, 225-226)
Egalitarianism - "Charles Lindbergh
couldn't bear to let anyone else answer his fan mail, promis
ing himself he would get around to it eventually (which, of
course, he never did). Egalitarianism is possible only in small
social systems." (Shirky, 93)
Yay! Thanks Michael.
ReplyDeletebanal
ReplyDelete"As always, socially embedded messages are more valuable than random public broadcasts. Even accepting that Twitter creates a kind of peripheral vision for what someone's friends are doing, though, it can seem awfully banal." (Shirky,184)
Stymie
ReplyDelete"When he went down to the Ninth Precinct to get the complaint upgraded from lost to stolen property, Evan was stymied by the desk officer, who told him in no uncertain terms that it was up to the NYPD to determine what was a crime and what wasn't." (Shirky, 9)
Inexorable
ReplyDelete"When Gould offered up his tires-to-sandals metaphor, he was essentially talking about the way in which exaptations have defined the paths of evolutionary innovation: new abilities and traits come about not because there is some inexorable march toward more and more complexity in the biosphere, but rather because natural selection has the Nairobi cobbler's instinct for taking old parts and putting them to new uses."
(Johnson 156)
Impetus
ReplyDelete"The impetus for the original meeting was to react somehow to the horror of the priestly abuse and the bishops' failures in the handling it..." (Shirky, 144).
serendipity
ReplyDelete"In a sense, dreams are the mind's primordial soup: the medium that facilitates the serendipitous collisions of creative insight." (Johnson, 102)