Doc Searls discussion: The Intention Economy
I’m leading a discussion on the WELL with Doc Searls about his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take […]
Business, Culture, Technology
Science, Space
Mars is boring
Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally jazzed about interplanetary exploration, have been for decades. But could we have picked a
Ad Culture
Seuss-vertising
Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, created illustrations for ads before he illustrated children’s books. Fast Company has a slideshow
Science, Space
Martians flee after seven minutes of terror!
Your humble blogger burned the literal midnight oil to watch Curiosity’s landing on the surface of Mars, which actually meant watching the NASA team as the landing progressed, via NASA TV. No real evidence of the “terror” on their faces, they actually seemed confident and professional.
Networks
How cool to have a gigabit Internet? Not so much.
Is it really cool to have gigabit network connectivity? Or is it more like it would’ve been to be one
Space
Spectacular time lapse from the International Space Station
Knate Myers has created a time-lapse from cleaned-up video shot from the International Space Station. I’d love to see the
Culture
Transformation of (or by) comic culture
Mainstream superheroes with decades of history (Superman, Batman, SpiderMan, the various Avengers) are flying off comic book pages onto the
Community
Howard Rheingold on the state of the WELL
Howard Rheingold’s written a good short piece for the Atlantic explaining why the WELL is historically important, and how the
Culture, Science
Higgs Culture
Whether it was the Higgs Boson, or just a reference to the actual particle, the CERN discovery is already generating cultural waves and memes.
Community
The WELL has been an important driver for evolving Internet culture
At bOING bOING, Cory Doctorow explains what’s happening with the WELL. I commented there, reposted here: My view is that
Futures, Technology
Are computers intelligent?
At Reality Augmented Blog, I recently posted a Storify of my live tweets from Bruce Sterling’s talk at the Turing
4th Way, Cinema, Culture
“Shame” and transformation
Just saw the grim but enlightening film “Shame,” wherein Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a bland, disarmingly handsome thirtysomething obsessed with