Anybody contemplating what might have been the number one change in society (and the economy, stupid) over the past ten years could hardly do better than check this. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for June 6th, 2006
The Google Factor – It’s About the Audience
June 6, 2006Well, The Web From Your TV Screen is Revolutionary Too
June 6, 2006So after venting a bit of spleen over the inbuilt bias of big media it’s back to looking at how convergence and new media are changing the ways we think and act. Read the rest of this entry »
Got a Brain? Come over Here.
June 6, 2006M.I.T. Professor Henry Jenkins, an expert in the dialogue taking place on the Internet, recently communicated to me his view that how we know stuff is changing.
Yes, what we think of as knowledge, along with what we see on our screens, is also in the mixer. Read the rest of this entry »
Is This Participation?
June 6, 2006Under the heading "Back for More" the BBC this morning invites you to nominate your own choice as history's indefatigable Comeback Kid. Yes it's a story about Peru's Alan Garcia but they managed to bring Churchill into the headline anyhow. Why is the story misjudged and wrong? Read the rest of this entry »