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You’ll have come across the stories, talks and interviews about Clay Shirky’s new book: Cognitive Surplus. I think that all of us get – and recognise – the basic idea. Most of us spend/waste so very much time watching television. That’s typically pretty passive. However, an increasing number of The video is of Bruce Sterling at the Lift conference last year, reflecting on his 2005 book Shaping Things. It is about the Internet of Things, the idea and practise of giving objects in the physical world an Internet presence. Been in prison for the last six months? While you were inside, Location-Based Services (LBS) became the new cool. Some of this new generation are status games (Foursquare, Gowalla); some of them are about local reviews and services (Yelp, Rummble, Poynt). Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington believes that the era of trying to manage one’s online reputation is almost over: Trying to control, or even manage, your online reputation is becoming increasingly difficult. Continue reading Managing Your Online Reputation: Pukka Tips The video is Carnegie Mellon University Professor, games developer and former Disney imagineer Jesse Schell on the surprise success of the likes of Farmville, Webkinz, Club Penguin, Wii Fit and X-Box Achievements. Like many of you, I expect, I watched the latest instalment of the BBC’s Virtual Revolution on Saturday. The theme this week was the ways in which the Web is changing the ways we think. As has often been observed, people who use the Web on a regular basis are more apt to skim, read fewer sources |             | |||
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