Undermining the Idea GateKeepers

Love this interview with Levar Burton on Building 43 – Communities without Gatekeepers Broadcast  media & commercial communication are one-way conversations bundled with sales messages, actors, branding, and entertainers. Often it is marketing made to look like authentic human interaction. he goal of most mass media communication is to generate revenue. When you unpack Broadcast [...]

What is a Meme?

Over dinner conversation with a diverse group of thinkers – the questions was posed “what is a Meme?” I struggled with a concise definition along the lines of … “it’s an evolving mass of like-thoughts that a group of people subscribe to, add to, and riff on.” What make it different from culture? um …. [...]

utility computing

October 21, 2007 – Sunday Wandering observations on a Sunday morning… Computing is moving from something you own to a service you subscribe to. We are witnessing, and are a part of, a transformation in business, society, and culture. This is a fundamental shift in how society is organized that we will look back upon [...]