One of the strangest things about reading a lot of blogs is the way it’s broadened my view of the world. Which is “more or less at random.”<\/p>\n
I don’t follow a lot of mainstream news sources any more, because they mostly just piss me off, so I end up getting most of my news from an assortment of blogs and LiveJournals and other web sites, which means that I have a weirdly spotty understanding of what’s going on in the world. I know more than I really need to about Australian and Canadian politics, but I’m kind of fuzzy on events that took place twenty miles from where I sit to type this.<\/p>\n
It also means that I end up finding out about things through really strange channels. Take, for example, the fact that a magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Martinique<\/a> yesterday, a fact which doesn’t make the front pages of the Washington Post<\/cite><\/a> or CNN<\/a> websites at the time of this writing. I know about this because of Toby Buckell<\/a>, whose blog I read because I like his books and was on a panel with him at Boskone a few years ago where he mentioned the blog. Without that, I would probably remain blissfully unaware that anything happened.<\/p>\n At any rate, news stories and blog links from Global Voices<\/a> suggest that this was alarming and disconcerting to people in the Caribbean, but not hugely damaging– only one death was reported in the news stories I skimmed before writing this. So that’s all to the good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (By the way, I’m not recommending<\/strong> this approach to world news– I need to start doing something to get real news in a more systematic way, because it’s ridiculous how underinformed I am on some issues. I’m just noting that my current operating mode provides a wonderfully surreal picture of the larger world…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the strangest things about reading a lot of blogs is the way it’s broadened my view of the world. Which is “more or less at random.” I don’t follow a lot of mainstream news sources any more, because they mostly just piss me off, so I end up getting most of my news… Continue reading Stochastic Global Awareness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}