Mister Fweem's Blog: Medieval Help Desk

Monday, April 13, 2009

Medieval Help Desk

I first saw this video a few years ago (under which circumstance I cannot recall). But considering what I've been blogging about here for the past week, it's pertinent once more. As Clay Shirky indicates in his essay "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable," the newspaper business is undergoing right now a revolution akin to when the printing press arrived. Seeing this IT help guy assist the monk struggling with the transition from scroll to book is hilarious, but at the same time telling of the struggles we're seeing in the print-t0-web platform today. Enjoy.

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The Best Part

Kerplunk! by Patrick F. McManus

Admittedly, I myself was getting a little tired of the advances in technology. It used to be that all the different kinds of wackos sat out in their little isolated cabins or apartments somewhere. Each went through an entire lifetime without seeing another wacko of his particular ilk. Now a wacko can get on the Internet and find the other nine wackos in the world who are just like him.

McManus goes on to say they get to gether to decide what to blow up, but given the Unabomer lived in an isolated cabin as a Luddite and still managed to blow things up, there's a little flaw in McManus' logic. Nevertheless, I see where he's going with this.