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Long article from David Weinberger on web interaction & consciousness. From the page: "The Web hasn't been hyped enough. It is changing our culture's basic concepts, our metaphysics"

Berkman Center fellow, author, and blogger David Weinberger hosts a discussion about "The Authority of Wikipedia" as part of his occasional Web of Ideas series. From David, "An article gains authority just by appearing in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Does it gain authority just by being in Wikipedia? What (if anything) makes a Wikipedia article worthy of belief? How are the sources, criteria and locus of authority changing in the age of the Web?"

From the page: "Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is looking at how bodies have been imagined and transformed both culturally and medically. " An audio slideshow on how the human body has been interpreted over the years.

From the page: "Hazel Dooney is a young and VERY successful Australian Artist. From the blurb on her website:

In December, 2007, Hazel Dooney was the only female artist under 30 with works included in the prestigious auction, Modern and Contemporary Australian Art, held at Christie's in London. In what was a record-setting sale, with major works by Brett Whitely, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, Sydney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams and Tracey Moffat, two modest early works by Dooney fetched over $AU23,000 each.

You get the idea. We follow each other on Twitter, we exchange the occasional email. I'm a big fan. There are A LOT of artists online, but very few as smart, interesting, talented, successful or as driven as Hazel, so I thought a "Ten Questions" session would be in order. She kindly agreed to answer."

What a wonderfully written piece about one boy's experience of prayer and what lay behind Eve's fig leaf. Brilliant!

The transposition of a life lived in contemporary times to the fairy tale world of Once Upon A Time. Not only beautifully written and extremely poignant, but also shares links to a great many wonderful blogs in an imaginative, thought-filled way. I don't expect to read a post that has affected me quite as much as this one has in a very long time.

Powerful article about the creation of subjective realities through the stories we tell ourselves.

From the page: "There's been a lot of focus on follower counts, friend counts, subscriber counts, viewer counts and readers as of late. And, those are important metrics the from the standpoint of expanding your impact on the world and potentially, your income.

But, sometimes I wonder if we're spending too much time on the wrong metric"