Focus
One of the main problems with the Web 2.0 world is focus. Where do you send people when you do fun things online? Do you send them to your business venture to draw more attention? Do you send them to your image gallery? How do you compile stats to realize the amount of attention you [...]
The Neziten
At first glance the Neziten appear to not be a people at all. In fact they are not bound by traditional borders, No rivers mark their countryside, nor mountains raise up out of their plains. They have almost nothing in common, yet they exist.
They live work and play together. They react en mass, and without [...]
Bias
Bias is always present.
If you don’t think so you don’t understand what bias really is. Your viewpoint changes what you see, your political affiliation, your ideological backbone, your 3rd grade english teacher. You are but a sum of your parts. Whenever you view anything you view it through the lens of that time, and who [...]
We are digital, Criminals
We are Criminals.
As you read this post you are committing a grievous sin to some newspaper. Though the information it contains won’t ever be published. It would not have known the process to go through to earn the right to appear on paper. It remains as you see it, flickering at 75hz. The lone exception [...]
Simple Tool Rule
Simple Tool Rule: Always use the least complicated correct object, or method to get the task at hand done.
The old way was the “Right tool for the job.” Well the jobs have changed and the right tool now has a host of friends on the shelf with him. When asked why some tools have longer [...]
The Right way to…
I was asked this week what the correct way to twitter is. I have been asked by people who don’t know what the correct way to make a podcast is as well. I can help you very quickly. There isn’t one.
Social media is what you make of it. I am happy to share my experiences [...]
Problem of Generation Computing
A quick introduction to be fleshed out later and a response to a previous article. The basic problem with attempting to understand how people interact with technology is that depending on your age people naturally place more value on the experiences they had, rather than what others went through or will go through.
Digital Natives, or [...]
Generational Computing
Different generations deal with technology in very different ways.
It has a lot to do with the way they were introduced to it during their lifetime. Think about this, Someone who today is 60 was born during a time when color TV was in its infancy, you couldn’t dial long distance phone numbers without talking to [...]
Interactive Culture
How do people interact with their networks?
Blogs, Podcasts and Vidcasts have been heralded as the New Media, and indeed they are for now. But the value of the media isn’t the content any longer but the conversations they engender. Fantastic Podcasts can have hordes of listeners but if their is no conversation then the new [...]
Fandom and its repercusions online
With the culmination of American Football Season in the Superbowl, I thought it might be interesting to look into how Sports affect our interaction in Social media differently than in real life.
Sports is a polarizing area to discuss, no matter which way your approach the subject. On whole people generally have three different reactions to [...]