Tom Morris: 2008-11-26

2008.11.26

Loic Le Meur has an interesting blog post up about LeWeb08, the ticket price and whether or not it should be more or less exclusive. It is interesting to see how the event has changed over the years. The thing about the idea of "Davos of the Web" is that the Internet does not operate on the same model as Davos: on the Internet, power and money do not correlate nearly as much. This hit me first a few years ago when I was reading the blog of a developer of a very popular software piece of Web software - the guy was working in a tiny little petrol station, writing the software in between serving customers. (There's an electronic middle-class Marxist revolution against all the management tossers who caused the economic downturn if only the economy can unfuck itself long enough to kill the parasites). 2008-11-26T09:38:52Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: East Sussex, England

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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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