Archives for May, 2008
Gedankenexperiment: Here is the Internet
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3. A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later. A digital native might refer to their new “camera;” a digital immigrant might refer to their new [...]
Patent Not Pending: Visual Backchannel
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
At least in the world of tech conferences, the existence of an audience backchannel during presentations isn’t much of a revelation: IRC has both formally and informally filled that role for years, and ca. 2008 it’s getting hard to find a big ticket presentation that isn’t being “liveblogged” by somebody. The phenomenon received an injection [...]
Friday’s Brain Dead Emails
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
The McKinsey Quarterly Goes Social The McKinsey Quarterly dropped me an email yesterday to let me know about the exciting new features that they’ve added: RSS feeds and social bookmarking! A very social and up-to-date organization, apparently. Interesting, then that they still follow the distinctly anti-social practice of sending me email from a dead address, [...]
