In the beginning we surfed the web but now a tsunami of crowd-sourced content threatens to overwhelm our craft.
Should we plunge headlong into the waves and hope to remain bouyant in the social media storm or head for maven haven on the mountain top?
The web is awash with water metaphors, from streaming video to bittorrent [...]
Chris Messina has published a passionate and beautifully-illustrated post about the tension between what Jonathan Zittrain describes as generative and tethered net applications, represented by Neo’s Cartesian dilemma.
How insidious is the slide towards ease of use inside walled gardens such as Facebook and the iPhone? And how many users truly take the red pill by [...]
Jaron Lanier spoke at The RSA on 1 February 2010 to promote his new book You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto.
This is essential reading for anyone involved with the online world. It takes a refreshingly honest look at the first generation of web applications and the way the web has evolved. Check out the [...]