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The end of The Wire
I’ve just watched the last episode of season five of The Wire. If you don’t watch or know the show, my apologies - but for me, it’s almost (possibly even) as good as seasons 1-4 of The West Wing - those written primarily by Aaron Sorkin. In fact, all I want to do now is […]
Published: March 14, 2008. Read more →
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (200,000 times)
In 1999, I wrote a business plan for the company I was then working for, Canongate Books. The plan was for the Scottish Arts Council, and the idea I’d come up with was to make “pop promos for books” which would get a web and film festival showing, and drive traffic to the Canongate site […]
Published: February 14, 2008. Read more →
Information R/evolution
A new video by Michael Wesch, whose film last year The Machine is Us/ing Us explained the new interconnectivity of the web so brilliantly.
This time he’s taken as his theme the new digital (dis)order, as described in David Weinberger’s excellent recent book Everything is Miscellaneous.
We’ve been talking a lot about tagging and similar strategies recently, […]
Published: October 22, 2007. Read more →