The Audience has an Audience
Interesting video by Kevin Slavin and Kenyatta Cheese
Tea shops, chat and the world disclosed
Last weekend’s FT piece about ‘ideas conferences’ by James Crabtree in the FT, reminded me of a post I wrote over 7 years ago on Indian tea shops, the internet […]
Solitude and Sociality?
"It is what the internet lures out of us – hubris, daydreams, avarice, obsessions – that makes it so potent and so volatile. TV's power is serenely impervious; it does […]
The Future of the Book (as seen by IDEO)
Interesting video of 3 future book concepts made by IDEO. Seems to me that much of what they propose already exists, just not in one device or set of seamless […]
Multi-mediated
This passage capturely wonderfully the networked media infused and supported parallel lives we (some) people live: "…consider that each medium represents a slightly different slice of the people I know and […]
Media ecology – your email is connected to your….
A rather brilliant commentary on the ecology of media and technology, via Memex 1.1
Good times in bad times
Some people do really well out of recessions. My Dad always seemed busy at such times since he was an accountant who specialised in insolvency. But journalists do okay too. […]
Media Approval
An interesting little thing from the New York times that let’s you review news items and place them on a 2 by 2 matrix, before viewing how other readers approve […]