[editor's note: Phooey on Digg. Sorry that this post is a bit of a repeat, but I used their "blog this" link and all it ended up doing was truncating what I wrote and didn't put any links in the body of the post (which is just my style). So I'm posting this again with some additional information]

So Gen X were slackers and Gen Y are kickin’ it? There are some nice statistics on Steven Johnson’s blog that show that our new Web medium is encouraging participation and entrepreneurship. Kids rule! —give them video games. And maybe Johnson is right in his tome “Everything Bad is Good For You” that this development has more to do with a generation that has grown up with interactive mediums (i.e. video games and the web) than a generation that grew up with a passive medium (i.e. television).

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Pinker, Steven. *How the Mind Works* W. W. Norton: New York

This post is part of Banapana’s [running bibliography](/references).

My friend, Jill Woodward, over at the bgood fashion blog recently wrote a post titled “Global Nomads” in which she talks about having friends in far off places and still being able to maintain good friendships in the digital age. I can’t definitely appreciate that point of view. When I left New York nigh on a year ago I was worried about losing touch with people but that really hasn’t proven to be the case. Between my last.fm page, my flickr page, friendster and facebook and blogging in general, I’ve been able to keep up with most everyone most of the time. It’s been especially nice being able to keep tabs on my sister. I like the idea of Global Nomads. Why settle down anywhere when you can be everywhere?

Hofstadter, Douglas Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Basic Book, INC: New York, NY

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New York magazine had this piece on celebrity in New York. There always was an attitude (when I was there) that celebrities were to be left alone. I always thought it was out of respect, but maybe there was an element of “cool” to it–as if you’re special because you are in the vicinity of celebrity. Mostly I just didn’t care about celebrities and I have no tolerance for people who want to be famous but can’t handle the “hastle” of people wanting to talk to you or look at you. But the Google Map/Celebrity Stalking pages are really too much. Moreover they’re worrisome because of how they illustrate how easily anyone could be tracked if some institution or individual were so inclined. Is this another sign of the Death of Privacy?