Packets
Nice little movie that simply describes how packet switching allows the page you’re now reading to get delivered to you in under a second:
Salons: where good ideas continue to come from…
EPIC Salons: Creating spaces for ideas to flourish What do San Francisco in the 1960’s, Vienna at the turn of last century, Calcutta during the 1800s and London in the […]
Facebook's vision and it privacy
From a nice essay by Paul Ford in MIT’s Technology Review on Facebook, Facebook Home and its moral ‘vision’ Facebook’s self-reflexive utility explains why the company finds privacy so tricky. […]
Relations and Relatedness
Thanks to the Wayback machine I found an old post I wrote on kinship and social networks from Ideas Bazaar (2004 vintage). I’m in the midst of writing something about big […]
The disconnected life worth living
Provocative piece from the The New Enquiry, arguing against the idea that a ‘logged on life’ is a distracted one that detracts from the quality of our relationships in ‘real […]
Internet punditry (1974)
From Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s 1974 collection of essays “The Consciousness Industry; On Literature, Politics and the Media”: The open secret of the new electronic media, the decisive political factor, which […]
Death, Digital Remains and the Network
Image Courtesy of Michele Gauler's Digital Remains project Three recent things, and something I cam across a few years back collide in what seems like an emergent interest in what […]
Facebook the Casino
Nice piece in latest Technology Review comparing Facebook to Diaspora, the new minimalist, Dunbarian social network. Facebook is like a casino: garish, crowded, distracting, designed to lure you in and […]
Boiled Eggs and Actor Network Theory
A poem by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life is a properly boiled egg.This isn’t as easy as it seems.There must be gas and a stove, the gas requires pipelines, […]
Three Types of People
I was interested in the following quote from Lynda Gratton from London Business School, in a Lunch with the FT Interview (several weeks ago). Not much more comment to make […]