Tom Morris: 2008-07-22

2008.07.22

Big Contrarian looks like an awesome blog. And Tacky is a superb blog post. It says all the sorts of things I want to say about the utter asininity that is the "Problogger" and Digg end of the blogosphere. I can't quite believe I actually used to not only read but link to TechCrunch. Of course, now I barely blog at all. The official reason is that I've got a stack of books a mile high to read. The real reason is that whenever I open my RSS aggregator, I feel a new level of despair at the stupidity of it all. A once awesome medium for self-expression has become an utterly awful medium of now seemingly mandatory self-promotion. These blogs read more like those crappy adverts you see on daytime television for consolidation loans. 2008-07-22T02:00:28Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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