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Take a look at this photo stream. 6EMEIA is a collection of young artists in Sao Paulo, and they’ve been converting mundane objects like storm drains and paving stones into works of art. Maybe it’s the Calcutta in me, but I love stories such as the one above, where creativity blossoms forth in the midst … Continue reading “Eye of the beholder”
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. I’ve always loved that quote from The … Continue reading “Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
Andres Bianciotto is someone I met via the blogosphere; he commented on something I’d written many months ago; I took the opportunity to take a look at his blog, and when I realised he wrote mainly in Spanish, I decided to link to him. Why? Some similar interests, and maybe a way of improving my … Continue reading “Volunteers needed in the search for Steve Fossett: Where crowdsourcing meets altruism”
Some time ago, while mulling over my thoughts about Facebook and privacy (soon to be the tenth and last post in the Facebook and the Enterprise series) I’d been re-reading danah boyd‘s writings on the subject nearly a year ago. She starts a section called Exposure by saying: Have you ever been screaming to be … Continue reading “Rambling around Lulworths and Minchinhamptons and Mondegreens”
Kyle Mathews, while commenting on a recent post of mine, reminded me of an old Joel Spolsky post on building communities with software. I remember being very taken with the post when it came out all those years ago, particularly what Joel called “the primary axiom of online communities”: Small software implementation details result in … Continue reading “Just freewheeling on social software and communities”