Comments on: Google Eats Itself

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:42:11 +0000

“Call me crazy, but thatâ€™s what I think art is supposed to be about. Thatâ€™s not exactly what they taught me in art school, but thatâ€™s what my heart taught me.”—right the fuck on!

By: kopernikus

kopernikus — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:21:09 +0000

Although when you think about it most memes aren’t really self-perpetuating; they’re not supposed to be. The internet would collapse without humans as someone wrote recently…

By: kopernikus

kopernikus — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:16:38 +0000

I’d say art exists to expand people’s horizons… apart from just being beautiful. It’s the creative unconscious of the hive brain, finding patterns and creating them at the same time. That’s not to say that you can’t criticize and disagree with it as some seem to have started to think since the start of postmodernity. Anyway personally I think Google Will Eat Itself is actually quite an interesting attempt to illuminate how the internet has enabled regenerating formulas and memes to quickly be created and perpetuate themselves… For whatever purpose.

By: SubstanceM

SubstanceM — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:48:56 +0000

Dakota is at least sociologically interesting.
He is an example of the archonic forces working against gnosis??
You’ve got to feel for his plight.
However, if anyone like Dakota ever had the balls to address people in this way in person, he’d be humbled and wary from all the “fags” beating the crap out of him.
I don’t think it would match up to his little computer room sitting idea of a wussy fag.
I guess he probably doesn’t say and act this way to people in real non-anonymous life, or he likely wouldn’t be posting today. Tim, on the other hand, I am sure is the same guy in person. In this arena, it is Dakota who is feeling powerful in a tiny little world I suppose. I guess the best thing for J.R. is to let him post so he doesn’t keep crying about “censorship”, but ignore him completely. Or start a whole section on him, make him the cut rate internet blog room “Hollywood thuperthtar” he so wishes to be.

By: nemesis

nemesis — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:53:40 +0000

Ahhhhh, i think thats a lovely offer north dakota and what an irony. I was only saying to dakota last week that he was here for a reason and fate has written it in the stars and sailed him along his stormy river to youre tranquil shore, lovely. Maybe the constant barricking was worth it after all tim, what price love…

By: north dakota (aka Daddy Peacebucks)

north dakota (aka Daddy Peacebucks) — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:34:47 +0000

yeah, I totally agree, dakota. why do they keep censoring you? this tim boucher really is exercising monumental control over your life, it’s astounding! and shocking. and just plain unfair. Jerkus!
I think we can both agree that you could use some relaxation time–it eats up so much energy to be pissed off at injustice all the time. Just relax. Like by coming over and watching Donnie Darko with me. I never heard back from you, so I can only assume you felt awkward about having to bring snacks. And I realized that it would sort of make me an ungracious host to ask you to do that. I mean, hospitality, right?–Anyway, I took care of it. There’s plenty of Yoohoo and Red Vine at my place now. So you shouldn’t feel too faggy or wannabee-ee (buzz buzz, right?). And if Donnie Darko is the deal breaker, I totally have an intimidating collection of DVDs. Everything from Full Metal Jacket to Cabin Boy. So I’m just gonna keep waiting by the computer. I’m on chapter three of Left Behind, by the way. Rayford Steele is so on it. I mean, some other folks in the book think folks are disappearing because of aliens, but he knows what the real deal is, unlike those wannabee faggy mcfag-fags!
Okay, I’m still waiting. See you soon!
Yoohoo and Yahoo Up! Google and Boucher down! Lets hold hands?

By: dakota

dakota — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:03:43 +0000

yeah Google is going to help spawn a whole new generation of fag wannabee cult leaders, wannabee artists, wannabee writers, who feel powerful in their own tiny little worlds, censoring people on their fake blog sites. I guess that’s why losers won’t ever get published, because the whole point of being published is that your work is good and the writer is confident enough to withstand genuine criticism. And google is for rejects, I use yahoo. Lockheed martin, evil? lol I think the word “google” should be outlawed and people decapitated for using that word so liberally.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:14:58 +0000

That’s a damn fine point! I’d also like to point out that Google ads - whatever you think of them - are helping me get closer to making a living as a writer without having to publish through anybody else or change around what and how I say things to suit somebody else’s editorial vision. While there are definitely things they could do better, as a whole, I think they’re enabling tons of people like me to carve out a niche for themselves on their own terms.

By: Joe Chip

Joe Chip — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:43:01 +0000

I wasn’t aware that Google was trying to monopolize information. They seem to be in the business of cataloging it and making it more readily available. Also, their advertisements, though still irritating insofar as they are advertisements, seem to be an acceptable compromise between invasive animated and popup ads, and no ads at all. As far as corporations go, Google seems to be pretty benign. Maybe instead of buying Google shares with that money, they should be buying up the shares of a genuinely evil corporation–say, Lockheed Martin–and trying to bring them down. Now THAT would enrich people’s lives.