Sep
28
Envisioning the Future Technology of the New Media Lab
September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Lately I’ve been having a rather interesting dilemma. I’ve been thinking about if we were to update a few of our oldest Windows machines, what would I get? We’ve had these top-of-the-line all-the-bells-and-whistles Dells for many years now. I can only hope that many others look on them as I do- as valiant machines who […]
Jul
19
on Google+ vs. Facebook
July 19, 2011 | 6 Comments
It seems that Google+ will turn out to be the fastest growing social network ever. Using an invite only policy, it managed to drum up significant buzz among the geek and internet elites. It borrowed several features from the once heir apparent Diaspora (Diaspa-what? remember the six figures worth of funding they generated on Kickstarter […]
Jun
15
On Curation and Expertise
June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Crowdsourcing is old hat. The moment for letting the public and the masses make sense of content is coming to an end. Sort of. It’s not that sites like last.fm have thrown in the towel on folksonomy; but there is an emerging wave of consensus brewing that what has been missing on the web is […]