Douglas Barone
Douglas Barone
A Post-postmodernist with Objectivist leanings, fighting to catch up with his art after serving time as a capitalist oppressor of the people.
Doug Barone retired from corporate life after 20 years in the finance industry and is fooling everyone into thinking he is a writer. Having been a corporate strategist, finance executive, and IT executive he has found almost nothing of use to him from those years except the zany people and crazy stories that no one in their right mind could ever dream up. He uses these real life experiences in his work and this separates him from other writers who never really worked a day in their lives either.
His work, his prose fiction, is focused on power, its entanglement with emotional fulfillment, the impact of institutional concentrations of authority, and our struggles in the space created between. It deals with the ontological-deontological tension of existence in a post-postmodern world, where ideas have re-emerged as vastly powerful things even in the simple acts of everyday life. Sometimes his work allows just a bit of the mystical to cross over into reality, breaking the barriers of perception, heightening a sense of the possible.
Since this is all antithetical to the held narrative of our time, he fully expects to be pilloried by the academic left as well as the religious right, and looks forward to every lashing.
Daily News – Halloween Edition
Descartes’ Bones
As he took questions he cringed expecting an assault on Cartesian thought for which he has become an unwitting lighting rod. “At Harvard” he said ” the first question they asked me was ‘Don’t you believe in free will?’”
Even thought Mr. Shorto told me “that none of the early reviewes of my book got it at all” I’ll add one anyway…
International Herald Tribune
Bones for the Media
Who needs Wall Street? New York media has a friend in Washington. David Carr in the New York Times wrote about the embarrassment of riches dumped on the media industry by the Obama campaign. Unprecedented spending from the best candidate money can buy is about to end. But the irony has been that even with a spending that would make Lee Atwater blanch, the trump as been small scale open platform video and blogs in web space. Too bad that an Obama presidency plans to use a revitalized fairness doctrine to shut down all that web 2.0 dissent and advocacy – right after they pulverize AM talk radio – a little payback to old print media for their coverage of his campaign.
New York Times
The Brand Called Obama
The Size of Blog Space
To hear talk about it, blog space is so big that bloggers outnumbered people three or four to one. Technorati runs an annual survey called “State of the Blogspace” and the numbers show something less than the hype.
There are two questions. How many blogs are there, and how many are active. Technorati crawls about 7.4 million blogs that were active in the last 120 days, 1.5 million active in the last week, and 900,000 active in the last day, much smaller than I thought given that these are global numbers. It seems that people are getting tired of their blog toy.
I bet we will start to see articles about the carnage of hobby blogs dying off as some realize that being a solo publisher is a lot of hard work. CSS code anyone?
Technorati State of The Blogsphere 2008