Pub­lic and Private

I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in a panel dis­cus­sion on “The Pub­lic and Pri­vate in Media” as a part of an art exhi­bi­tion: The New Nor­mal. The New Nor­mal exam­ines the issue of pri­vate infor­ma­tion becom­ing less pri­vate in our tech­no­log­i­cal soci­ety. Regard­less of how well I present/​discuss today, this exhi­bi­tion has made me reex­am­ine my ideas of the private […]

Skim­ming and Bor­ing the Stream

In response to my last post on “the Stream,” Cameron Blevins (His​tory​-ing​.org) pointed out that one “issue with the stream is the seem­ingly eter­nal one of breadth vs. depth,” and that one of the “biggest” chal­lenges for a user was the “transi­tion from hori­zontal skim­ming to ver­tical bor­ing down” into the stream. I agree with Cameron that […]

The Stream

I spent yes­ter­day try­ing to catch up on my feeds and found my read­ing tak­ing me down the “stream.” Here are some links to yes­ter­days dis­cov­er­ies: The Evo­lu­tion of Blog­ging How Inter­net Con­tent Dis­tri­b­u­tion & Dis­cov­ery Are Chang­ing Why Blogs Need to be Social Dis­tri­b­u­tion… now Dimen­sion­al­iz­ing the web Wel­come to the Stream: The Next Phase of […]