Tag: community

• The Life Span Of A Perspective

  SOHH.com, Jane Bolden Ecko Responds to Vegas Mayor’s Thumb Chopping Suggestion… […] Last week, (Marc) Ecko, chairman and founder of Ecko Unltd., approached Mayor Goodman about his comments via a letter titled “Re: Taggers, Thumbs and Graffiti Art.” “You recently suggested chopping off tagger’s thumbs and subjecting them to public canings and whippings,” Ecko wrote […]

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  May 6, 2006

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  community, expression, graffiti, Malcolm Gladwell, Marc Ecko, politics, tagging

• SXSW2006: Bruce Sterling – The State of the World

  *Note* Live blogging will miss nuance and won’t be an exact representation of the speaker’s intent. Bruce Sterling isn’t throwing a party this year, but he’s loving the bubble echo of this 2.0 SXSW2006 get together. He says “enjoy it while you can.” He’s loving flickr and Wikipedia; companies that are completely unlike anything else, […]

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  March 15, 2006

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  America, Bruce Sterling, Carl Sandburg, community, global, humanity, poetry, Serbia, Spime, SXSW2006

• SXSW2006 Day Five: Democratization of the Moving Image

  Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon are Rocketboom. We are in an interesting time, as production tools for mass communication are dirt cheap and accessible. Rocketboom: An interesting intersection of blogging, TV over IP, radical advertising, etc. […] The art of the possible. Personal filters (media, people they meet, events, etc.) – always on the lookout […]

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  March 14, 2006

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  advertising, Amanda Congdon, Andrew Baron, business, citizen media, collaboration, community, design, innovation, internet, Rocketboom, user experience design

• SXSW2006 Day 4: Cluetrain: Seven Years Later

  Doc Searls On marketing consulting: There’s money to be made in prolonging the problem. On the title: The cluetrain stopped there (Silicon Valley) four times a day, but never made a delivery. How the book came after the site received a buzz: The book deal got worked out based on how much consulting money wey’d […]

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  March 13, 2006

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  citizen media, community, Doc Searls, dooce, Heather Armstrong, SXSW2006, The Cluetrain Manifesto

• SXSW2006 Day Three: Everyware – The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

  Adam Greenfield is dealing with Godly AI interfaces. What is ubiquitous computing? Well, what happens when computers get cheaper, faster, better? They become invisible, but all around us. The possibilities to crunch concepts, data, information explode. We move into a post-graphical user interface, from gesture to voice. Multiple users, multiple spaces. Moving away from the […]

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  March 12, 2006

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  Adam Greenfield, community, ethics, humanity, information architecture, innovation, morality, SXSW2006, ubicomp, usefulness, user experience design