The Famous Jesse ‘Big Daddy’ Unruh Quote

“If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don’t belong in politics.”

quaint media abstract

When onboard a ship, or piloting by IFR, the staccato pulses of Morse’s binary language blip past at a socially subliminal volume – teasing one with the hint of mind’s eye theatre projected against a subconscious backdrop.  No media is dead – smoke signals hide lesser signifiers but are still laden with meaning – subtleties may likely should drop away, but the medium never subcumbs once it’s made manifest.  Recognizing the dwindling market and moving to embrace convergence prefigures a successful transition across narrative – although obviously there’s a deeper layer needing digging:

Quaint Media

or,

Why I Still Have A Record Player

(I’ll present full evidence of the theory as applied to social optimization over the next few weeks, the basis is more or less laid out already as a result of the focus I undertook on memetics)

article to come

Online Social Optimization – To Bring a Point Home

After the last few months, I’m seeing how the web itself is beginning to shift – there’s a stasis developing between twitter and facebook I can almost make out – and a good deal of users are finding their own level of interaction based on the devices they have closest to hand.

I anticipate that online social optimization is the end-point for most of these ongoing processes, and eventually I expect there’s going to be an integration of consciously and unconsciously driven technological touch-points across these networks.

Sites like Plurk, LinkedIn, and FriendFeed have been on my list of experimental places to be working within, while qik, justin.tv and ustream are all kicking around as well – there’s a way for all of this to merge, become the ubiquitous ‘Computer’ one directs as depicted back in the first episode of Star Trek.

That’s where I’d like to see us evolve towards – replicators, energizers, phasers set on stun, and energy fields – and I really don’t see what’s stopping us – except for the rate of innovation… of course, my friend Freeman knows that this use of social media does – in many respects – feed data into an ongoing spy network.

Edward, my co-author of The Art of Memetics, pointed out on a teleconference long ago that the internet is made for spying – which is intelligence gathering. The act of growing intelligence, of intelligence increase, is dependent on intelligence gathering devices, which is what the internet has become – it is the digital accretion of an interzone.

Social optimization offline or online is the same – it’s the tools which change. At the baseline, though, the tool is the ‘Word’ – in which ever ”Text” you may be representing. This becomes a narrative to those around you, which evolves your story onward.

Ustream Channel for #Unruh

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/unruh

A Different Approach

We’ve pulled back from the comic (although the first issue is complete, and only needs digital coloration to be ready for publication – that and lettering) and instead I’m writing this all out as a novel. I’d spoken with the artists in witchita in person while visiting infictive county in april and we’re all on board with this manifestation – god, inc. is still the working project codename, but that’s only to keep from letting you all know too much. In unrelated news, Blizzard announced a new MMO project…

sloppy unruh .com

after a week or so of tying together and importing from a series of places, I’m more or less able to announce that mutans is retired and sloppy unruh is fully functional on my own server. Going forward all my incidental blogging will be archived there, which frees this space up for me to focus on more specifically unrelated thoughts, as it were

Technosigilic Magick or just plain SEO?

as much as I’d like to get The Art of Memetics available via Amazon, I don’t know that the sales figures would be worth the immense amount of effort that goes into self-publishing. I’ve already sunk several years into the book, and the meager .17 cents a day in google ad revenue doesn’t even cover my hosting costs

after months of dabbling with ads on various sites, I’ve become convinced that there’s issues with how most online ads work and have decided it’s probably significantly better overall to either create only links to people I know who’s work I support, or to people who pay me directly for specific types of work. I’m done with google adsense, it’s hardly ever brought in revenue, and it makes things look sloppy and cluttered

rather, I’m toying with directly contacting individuals I know and creating partnerships where appropriate. There’s not much time before I have to step away from the net entirely and focus on writings, so this next five month period will be dedicated to cleaning up my scattered online presence and condensing down ads as much as possible to those links to those individual sites where I’m supporting either friends or sites I enjoy who are able to provide better compensation than google

feel free to tell me how this makes you feel, if you care. Currently I’ve been able to develop some ads for the online book that take up significantly less space than the old google ads, and which will hopefully develop into an ongoing residual revenue stream that I can divert to Edward and I as compensation for the work we did on the text, cover the hosting costs, and support us as authors going forward