Archive for March, 2007
Journalism should not be “objective.”
1) Objectivity is an illusion. I wrote a ridiculous entry on this the other day, but the point is that, simply by moving from an event to writing or videotaping the event, there is an ever present and strong cast that a reporter’s own perception makes on the event. 2) As a result of the [...]
The GPL Virus
The “open source war” is something that I frequently comment on, and as time goes on, I continually grow to understand the implications of this war, and the motivations of those involved. The war is often characterized as a war between the hacker champions of open source software and the draconian closed source overlords. In [...]
Assertion cannot always be verbalized.
We can, in broad terms, speak of two formulations of knowledge: objective and subjective. Objective truth identifies the existence of reality without human perception; subjective truth claims, vaguely speaking, that no such thing exists outside of human and social construction (constructivism).