http://www.metabolo.org/taxonomy/term/25/0 en http://www.metabolo.org/node/19 <p>I thought about creating a place where I can list examples of <a href="#">metabolo</a> in contemporary culture, as I encounter or think of them, and expand on them later. This post is that place. </p> <p>Examples: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://flock.com">Flock</a> - the browser I'm using right now</li> <li><a href="http://www.media-ecology.org/">Media ecology</a> - a young discipline pioneered by Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and others</li> <li>Rabid media attention described as a "feeding frenzy." On this note, one relative of the slain child Jon Bennet Ramsey said the media attention was "like having a wild animal attached to your face."</li> <li>Macintosh's pulsating status light -- like a sleeping animal's breathing</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkrot">Linkrot</a> - apt... if not pretty</li> </ul> http://www.metabolo.org/node/19#comment biomimicry communication creativity language sociomimicry technology Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:30:14 -0400 gva 19 at http://www.metabolo.org