The Obvious?

Tools Rule, Content Sucks

Earl Mardle concludes a great post laying out the difference between Google's success with tools that enable users and their relative failure with attempts to deliver content with the following powerful paragraph:

The TV age has been a disaster for the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of practically everyone who has been exposed to it, it undermines our taste, our independence and our family lives. With the net, the couch potato has discovered legs, a brain and a network of like minds, all it has to do is use the tools.

I have to say I have been becoming more and more convinced of this difference over the past few years. One of the things that excites me most about the web is it's potential for everyone to tell their own stories and to make sense of the world in a more intimate and powerful way than a passive consumption of other people's sense making - however good.

Technorati Tags: television, tv, msm, media, stories, citizenmedia

Tools Rule, Content Sucks

Earl Mardle concludes a great post laying out the difference between Google's success with tools that enable users and their relative failure with attempts to deliver content with the following powerful paragraph:

The TV age has been a disaster for the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of practically everyone who has been exposed to it, it undermines our taste, our independence and our family lives. With the net, the couch potato has discovered legs, a brain and a network of like minds, all it has to do is use the tools.

I have to say I have been becoming more and more convinced of this difference over the past few years. One of the things that excites me most about the web is it's potential for everyone to tell their own stories and to make sense of the world in a more intimate and powerful way than a passive consumption of other people's sense making - however good.

Technorati Tags: television, tv, msm, media, stories, citizenmedia

Tools Rule, Content Sucks

Earl Mardle concludes a great post laying out the difference between Google's success with tools that enable users and their relative failure with attempts to deliver content with the following powerful paragraph:

The TV age has been a disaster for the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of practically everyone who has been exposed to it, it undermines our taste, our independence and our family lives. With the net, the couch potato has discovered legs, a brain and a network of like minds, all it has to do is use the tools.

I have to say I have been becoming more and more convinced of this difference over the past few years. One of the things that excites me most about the web is it's potential for everyone to tell their own stories and to make sense of the world in a more intimate and powerful way than a passive consumption of other people's sense making - however good.

Technorati Tags: television, tv, msm, media, stories, citizenmedia

Is the internet a good or a bad thing?

There is a clever pair of adverts for AOL on the television here in the UK at the moment - one portraying the internet as a good thing the other as a bad thing.

Some time ago I got to meet Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, and to hear him being interviewed. When asked whether he thought. looking back over the last thirty years, the internet had been a good or a bad thing his responses was "It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix"

This was why I got into blogging all of those years ago. If the internet is going to be a good thing we have to be in there making it good. Like society we have to take part, stand up and say what we think, and behave in ways that will make the internet somewhere where our kids can learn, grow and connect with each other and not somewhere where the darker side of life prevails.

Is the internet a good or a bad thing?

There is a clever pair of adverts for AOL on the television here in the UK at the moment - one portraying the internet as a good thing the other as a bad thing.

Some time ago I got to meet Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, and to hear him being interviewed. When asked whether he thought. looking back over the last thirty years, the internet had been a good or a bad thing his responses was "It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix"

This was why I got into blogging all of those years ago. If the internet is going to be a good thing we have to be in there making it good. Like society we have to take part, stand up and say what we think, and behave in ways that will make the internet somewhere where our kids can learn, grow and connect with each other and not somewhere where the darker side of life prevails.

Is the internet a good or a bad thing?

There is a clever pair of adverts for AOL on the television here in the UK at the moment - one portraying the internet as a good thing the other as a bad thing.

Some time ago I got to meet Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, and to hear him being interviewed. When asked whether he thought. looking back over the last thirty years, the internet had been a good or a bad thing his responses was "It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix"

This was why I got into blogging all of those years ago. If the internet is going to be a good thing we have to be in there making it good. Like society we have to take part, stand up and say what we think, and behave in ways that will make the internet somewhere where our kids can learn, grow and connect with each other and not somewhere where the darker side of life prevails.

Now that's what I call pervasive!

Smart lampposts that could provide high-speed internet access are set to go on trial in Scotland. The idea will be piloted later this month in Dundee but could spread further afield.

BBC NEWS

Now that's what I call pervasive!

Smart lampposts that could provide high-speed internet access are set to go on trial in Scotland. The idea will be piloted later this month in Dundee but could spread further afield.

BBC NEWS

Now that's what I call pervasive!

Smart lampposts that could provide high-speed internet access are set to go on trial in Scotland. The idea will be piloted later this month in Dundee but could spread further afield.

BBC NEWS

I'm with Jeneane on this one

The blogroll said: this is who i like to read, who do you like to read? Oh Cool! I see you--Do you see me? Oh Cool! I will check out who you like to read. Why don't you check out who I like to read? Oh cool! I will add that person from yours and you from mine and his from hers and theirs from theirs. Along with our posts, blogolls were streetsigns to regular coversation spots.

Then new people started writing online.

Then we added them to our blogrolls.

THEN WE ADDED THEM TO OUR BLOGROLLS.

I'm glad I still do that.

We need to keep doing that.

Otherwise it's just another silly pyramid scheme.

an ode to blogrolls