I’m glad Fortune brought the Flint Center Macintosh video to my attention:
25 years tomorrow. Get well soon, Steve.
Original article with links to the video here, along with links to the legendary Ridley Scott commercial.
Day: 23 January 2009
The art of the possible in a digital world
Loved this story about how David Bergman set about making a 1,474 megapixel photograph of Barack Obama’s inauguration and address:
It’s an amazing photograph. The things you can do with it, how you wander round, the power of the zoom, the quality of the photograph, the sheer usability of the tools. [My retarded hippie roots showed up very soon. The first thought that came into my mind was “I wish I could have delved into the Sgt Pepper cover this way”, soon followed by thoughts about Woodstock.]
I found out about it here, because I was following Zee here.
It’s all changing. Digital objects and how they become social, as Hugh Macleod kept teaching us. How the social object, having entered conversation, creates markets, as the Cluetrain guys kept reminding us. How those markets work and expand using social software, as tools like Twitter show us. How more and more tools are becoming available to do all this.
And how the Web is at the heart of all this change.
Web changes everything.
Incidentally, talking about non-web: Can you imagine the chaos if people attached this photo to their email and sent it around that way?
“We met the Frostwire guys on Twitter”
Georgia Wonder. An independent, unsigned British band. Climbs into the Pirate Bay Top 20. Using Frostwire. And Georgia Wonder “met” Frostwire via Twitter.
Twitter. A marketplace. Frostwire. A distribution mechanism. Pirate Bay. Indexers and trackers. Georgia Wonder. Unsigned, independent band. The shape of things to come in the music business? Time for all of us to wonder, not just Georgia.
Update: Georgia Wonder can be found on Twitter via @GeorgiaWonder