My first tour of the site. I published a piece about it in Culture @ the Olympics. Here's how it's looking...
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On Buried Hatchets and Better Tomorrows
Nora Young, Spark
What mainstream media can learn from social media Transparency – we’ve learned not to be protective –
Show parts of invus not normally broadcast
Using twitter - info medium, but sometimes use to develop story ideas.
Change of culture of the book – linear, to web
From indiv perspective to collaborative.
As big as shift from oral to book culture
Mcluhanite ecology of information
Mobiquity
73m people in china access web only through phones
mobile web
broader technological shift – virtual meeting real
new apps: - poken - touchatag - smart posters
what happens when perpetual info
doesn't have to be detached from geography – hyperlocal – the neighbourhood
use number crunching in local - crime map – uk home office using
complexity of social relationship
sustainability alec steffan – access to info, to change way we consume from buying objects to sharing – eg. an electric drill – average person uses it for v limited amout in their life –
change in consumption patterns through info
Jennifer vandermere – green activist – innovation strategist – gap: between what people say they want and what they buy. – can only close gap by bringing designers closer to consumers – better marriage of information – beyond focus groups -
Clay sherkey –
Andrew keen – the cult of the amateur - I think he’s wrong
LOLcats
teh funny Rob Cottingham Socialsignal.com/n2s
Host city for the 2010 olympic riots
Hootsuite
What makes social media funny
Podcast – funny or not?
End-user license agreements?
Beta testing
Collaboralot – private beta
Memes
Blogging - monetizing blog
Mental Health Illness and Social Media
Acute pluracy – inflammation between 2 linings in lung
www.Moritherapy.org
what do people use.
Interesting discussion about online etiquette. Whether it’s ok to not reply to an IM. Some people say it’s ok, some think it’s person specific. – majority of people think it’s ok – but IM has changed a lot –now you can see when people are typing and when they seem to have stopped mid message.
Kevin rose
IM as a presence application
Nearly nobody spends time in SL here.
Photos from the exhibition opening.
In April, I managed to get to Mexico and the Yucatan region days before the swine flu outbreak. Two days after returning, it was game over.
Last week, I was in Linz for a couple of days and met up with people at ARS Electronica Centre (AEC). What an amazing place. Theire new enlargement is a stunning building with so much great tech. They're managing to bridge artistic programme and pedgagogic experiences very nicely. It feels like the Mecca of Linz. We also learned that Linz is Hitler's hometown and a major exhibit of the European Capital of Culture programme for the year explains his roots, as an artist and advocate of a cultural policy regime that would put Linz at the heart of Austrian cultural activity.
It's a very special place to visit.
My working year ended in Washington for a debate at the American Enterprise Institute. It was especially interesting to see Washington in the heady gaze of Barack Obama's imminent inauguration. Long may their hope continue.
Photograph taken at an event with Ai Weiwei, during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Photograph at the Mathew Street Festival during the European Capital of Culture year.
Taken here while giving a talk in Liverpool.
Claudio is one of the most remarkable people I know and I've enjoyed his company on many occasions. He's also a really sharp philosopher with original insights and a provocative style of argument that has shaped my own aspirations.
After the Theory, Culture and Society conference, I spent 10 days in Tokyo and Kyoto, where we experienced an earthquake, a typhoon (more or less) and even spotted a Geisha.
One of the defining intellectuals of media studies, Elihu Katz is still sharp as a whip. Here shot at UPenn, Philadelphia in 2006.
One year after 9/11 I was in Manhattan. These photographs have a vintage look now, having been scanned from an analogue compact print photograph.
