Archive for the ‘Identity’ Category

No Straight Lines – Why No Straight Lines

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I work with the Think Tank Freedom Lab in Amsterdam, and I have had a fruitful relationship with The FreedomLab boys since 1995. This film is something they created from a two hour conversation about my next project, and what ...

“I” needs “we” to truly be “I”

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I am a big fan of Michael Wesch, he brings clarity, and a welcome reasoned perspective to his work. In his recent presentation, (watch below), he talks about the quest for the authentic self, a journey that preoccupies and has ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

A people will only be free when they control their own communications

Thursday, July 30th, 2009The Guardian writesIn the first of our Activate videos, Gerry Jackson, founder and director of SW Radio Africa, delivers a powerful and humbling presentation on the difficulties of providing independent information to a country stripped of its most fundamental freedoms. ...

True knowledge in the semantic network

Thursday, July 30th, 2009Rennee Blodgett writes about her recent visit to Cambridge and interviews the CEO of True KnowledgeTrue Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service–the True Knowledge Answer Engine–is a major step ...

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital BritainA while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

The data flow wars on kindle

Monday, July 27th, 2009I started writing about the dataflow wars on 1st May 2008 and updated that idea several times subsequently thereafter.John Naughton brings to our attention Amazon's terms of service for its Kindle, comparing such terms as just the same as George ...

Only connect

Monday, July 27th, 2009Was the dictum of E.M. Forster - and this is something that technologies of cooperation enable us to do in powerful ways, that create in the process; deeper context and greater meaning in those rapid-fire communications. Outside of the essays, long ...

Communication technology; is political [Iran]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Following on from my post from yesterday highlighting Jamias Cascio's Video on why technology is political I picked this up from Boing Boing – Five technologies Iran is using to censor the webWhile the government's initial efforts to censor the ...

Communication technology is political

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Technology is Political from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo.Manuel Castells new book is called Communication Power, [Amazon] he writes reflecting on his time as an 18 year old protesting against the Franquist regimeWhat I sensed then, and believe now, is that ...

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