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 [...]
A review of Free: The Future Of A Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of the US edition of Wired magazine, a post he has held since 2001, and is also author of 2006 best-seller The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand.
His latest foray into the lucrative non-fiction business book [...]
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 [...]
Martin Redfern filters out the hype around distributed media to relay clear signals without the noise.
