On Books
At this point the best thing the web and the book could do for one another would be to admit their essential difference. This would allow the web to develop as it wishes with a clear conscience, and for literature to do what it’s always…
Category: digital culture
Once it is not everything, it can be merely something.
At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence, and whatever media kids favor will be identified as the cause of our stupidity…Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the machine is always…
Start Guides We Should Make More Of
My office buddy Mathias Schindler (@presroi) unboxed his Google Cr48 Chrome notebook today and got laughs when he passed around the enclosed instructions. Just read them. You won’t regret it.
The Future of Art and Sharism
The transmediale gave a lot of attention to Free Culture and the Open Web this year, from the book sprint to the Open Zone to a panel series called Lost in the Open, and piles of spontaneous sharerrorism actions throughout the festival. Curated (or should…
Designing for Collaborative Consumption
Last night I had the honor of speaking at TEDxKreuzberg, which was a lot fun and the perfect opportunity to polish up some ideas and practice pontificating in front of a crowd. My talk was about Designing for Collaborative Consumption, and it was inspiring to…