Hopefully, nobody has noticed, but today I’ve changed the domain of this blog. Now it is no longer in a sub-sub-directory of my father’s domain, but rather on a domain of my own, which I hope I can keep for a long, long time. I’ve also set a permanent 301 .htaccess redirect, updated my RSS [...]
I love stories. There are stories everywhere. Stories can be tiny and innocent, violent and unsettling, wondrous and magic, or even so monumental that they change our lives. But even so, we rarely find the time and the place to share the wonder and insight of the stories, which we hear, read, or experience ourselves. [...]
Norms relate to habits in the same way as history relates to memory. To explain: History is the ever-changing, collectively negotiated understanding of the past. Memory is the same on an individual level. Habits are the unthinking actions and reactions shaped by the wear of individual daily life. Norms are the same on a collective [...]
Working at Socialsquare, I’ve been introduced to some very practical thinkers in the realm of digital sociality. These are the people who are concerned with connecting the technical ‘how’ with the social ‘how’ to build new web services that help redefine digital sociality. One of the more thoughtful of these thinkers is Jyri Engeström. Jyri [...]
Following my last post, where I likened Twitter to shouting out the window of a moving truck, I’ve been giving the matter some more thought and dug up some different perspectives on Twitter. Web 2.0 entrepreneur Ross Mayfield even asked his Twitter followers how they would describe Twitter to new-comers. It’s public but focused on [...]