Remoulding the human clay – Remoulding Media and Communications
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Historians often assume that they need pay no attention to human evolution because the process ground to a halt in the distant past. That assumption is looking less and less secure in light of new findings based on ... Ratings:
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An open letter to Steve Ballmer
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Steve Ballmer left a note on our blog about Social Networking.Its a fad like hot pants and BellbottomsSo I thought I would take my comment and post it because there seems perhaps to be some misunderstanding.Dear ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Psychological Self Determination and the quest for identity
Monday, October 1st, 2007For those that have heard me speak, one of the central tenents of my argument is that in a post modern world we can have many selves. Identity previously defined by external forces is inverted in the postmodern age.But we ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Dancing in the streets and the architecture of authority
Monday, July 23rd, 2007A couple of years ago, on the stunning Copacabana beach in Rio de Janerio where the mountails march right down to the water, my companion and I were drawn by the sound of drumming. Walkinh North along the ... Ratings:
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From Monotype to Digg
Saturday, October 28th, 2006I remember being taken round the Monotype factory as a young man. (The place that designed and produced typefaces and typesetting equipment)Where designers of typefaces were taught to draw the most difficult letter as their apprenticeship, the letter O. Perfect ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Convergence is a cultural phenomonen not a technological one
Monday, October 16th, 2006The book's core premises could be identified as the following:1. Convergence is a cultural rather than a technological process. We now live in a world where every story, image, sound, idea, brand, and relationship will play itself out across all ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The big rethink
Sunday, October 1st, 2006Gardening is always good for me as it gets me exercising, and also gets me thinking.Reading a great deal, sometimes you get a moment where you see connections that perhaps you had not seen before.This weekend I wonder if the ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Media and identity in Japan
Thursday, July 13th, 2006The first Gran Cyber Café opened in 1999. Today there are 10, serving some 5,000 people a day. Each has a slightly different orientation - some are geared to teenagers, some to salarymen - but the atmosphere is the same ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Pictures in our heads
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006For America, the last decade of the twentieth century not only saw a proliferation of the use of new communication technologies but also witnessed the rise of multiculturalism as ethnic communities and new immigrants resisted the earlier normative goal of ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Taking the long view
Saturday, April 29th, 2006The Long Now Foundation says The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Listen to Alan at SXSW
