a blog about information
I’d been looking forward to the launch of Europeana, scheduled for yesterday. What’s Europeana? A pan-European collection of digital objects from a vast array of libraries, museums, collections and archives, covering books, magazines, film, photography, paintings, music, maps, sights, sounds. I was travelling yesterday, and had planned to look at the site once I’d unpacked … Continue reading “Wanted: More Fail Whales”
Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed that my reading has become more and more heterogeneous and spread out; there has been a perceptible shift away from an A-list approach to a Long Tail, avoiding the “hit culture” implied by A-list approaches. During that same period, there have been a number of articles about … Continue reading “The importance of publish-subscribe”
It must be nearly ten years since I first read Larry Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. When I read it, I remember being very taken with one of his early stories, that of Martha and Dank. Here’s an excerpted version: It was a very ordinary dispute, this argument between Martha Jones and her … Continue reading “Martha and Dank Redux: Thinking about Cloud Computing”
There was a time when the most ridiculous headlines were to be found in the Sunday Sport: Killer Plant Stalks Queen Mum, Aliens Turned Our Son Into An Olive, London Bus Found On Moon, London Bus Disappears From Moon, and so on. Today, you can find such headlines everywhere. See if you can spot the … Continue reading “Sunday Sport, eat your heart out: When truth and fiction meet”
There’s a not-so-quiet battle going on during the US election, one that is going to get harder and grittier as the days go by. On the face of it, it’s a battle between “Mainstream Media” (or “MSM”, as it gets called) and “New Media” (principally the blogosphere, flickrworld and twitterverse). I think that the battle … Continue reading “Enterprise 2.0: The real revolution in the making”