Tag Archives: Research

iPhone Cyber­punk

The smart­phone, in my case the iPhone, is the mar­vel of the digital/​personal front of the early 21st cen­tury. I feel that I have now — as a pur­ported dig­i­tal his­to­rian (though I think that is a sus­pect term in its own right) — finally engaged the 21st cen­tury in its poten­tial. Of course, as with other tech break­throughs of the past (the auto, […]

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 […]