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Phenomenal Internet Success is Boring

Well, not for the people who actually have phenomenal Internet success. I’m sure they have a most wonderful time. But as a phenomena it’s just not very interesting. So I was heartened to see this bit of wisdom in Alexis Petridis’ roundup of the decade in music:
For all the talk of the MySpace-assisted success [...]

Connected doesn’t always mean digitally connected

Last Thursday I attended 4ip’s Recasting Power event in Birmingham. With presentations including Stoke’s grass-roots website Pits ‘n’ Pots and Nick Booth talking about Help Me Investigate and Big City Talk, a panel of politicians discussed with the audience what this all meant.
As is often the case it was partly inspiring and partly irritating and, [...]

Private in Public

I like NPR’s This American Life a lot. It’s a great example of how good speech radio can be and thanks to the magic of the Internet you can get it as a weekly podcast. The show, fronted by Ira Glass, tells stories by or about real Americans in interesting and innovative ways.
The podcast mixes [...]

Blogging as Social Processing

This is a half thought out idea which I’ve been pondering for a few days so don’t expect anything cohesive. I just want to work though it. Which is also the subject of the post in a nicely meta kinda way.
Reading the coverage of Help Me Investigate I was struck by how it was [...]