Looking at the news, everyone in London seems to be very excited about the CARGO HUB PLAN: Ottawa and the city will unveil big bucks to help London become an international air cargo gateway Whether or not this plan makes solid business sense in the near term is not my concern [clarification: I should say, [...]
Tagged as: cargo cults, cargo hub, culture, digital interactive gaming, digital media, innovation, innovation clusters, new economy, signalling, transportation
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by Brian on 11-24-2009
Reflecting on last weekend’s talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about anything… try everything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.” Given the circumstances, I’m happy I erred that way rather than the other. We [...]
Tagged as: benjamin franklin, bruce mau, complexity, creativity, dennis dutton, digital media, discovery, electricity, epistemology, evolution, generativity, history, paradigms, poetry, pragmatism, progress, revolutions, social media, theory, think21st, thomas kuhn
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Brogan says it’s ok to do these so, ok, here’s the best of my posts about London Ontario so far. I noticed when I started putting them together they sort of make a case… but you’ll have to create your own adventure! First, some background criticism on our mostly unconnected city: Should London Exist? Ontario [...]
Tagged as: cities, digital media, london, london ontario, london's social media mafia, open democracy, podcamp london, politics, social media, web
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[Here's a bit I've got so far prefacing That Project Provisionally Called a Book.] Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg’s book about “how blogging began, where it’s going, and why it matters,” begins on the morning of September 11, 2001. Along with first-hand witnesses in Manhattan, many other people across the US gravitated online to share their thoughts [...]
Tagged as: 9/11, blogging, digital media, social media, writing
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Yesterday I noticed a couple of announcements for London social media events in the fall: a Twitter 101 TechAlliance Breakfast Club on October 14 starring @billdeys, @ericablonde, and @titusferguson a social media [un]conference for the arts community promoted by @adamcaplan, @titusferguson, and @billdeys (from what I understand at this early stage — let me know if I [...]
Tagged as: a2bb, agora, athens, blogging, blogosphere, democracy, digital democracy, digital media, from the agora to the blogosphere and beyond, history, open democracy, philosophy, plato, politics, social media, society
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Another bit of a ramble (I love where it ends up), starting with this Time Q&A: TIME: How difficult was it to chart a history of a massive and diverse thing like blogging? Rosenberg: This is a phenomenon that starts small, then diversifies, then explodes at a certain point. At the small phase, it’s not that [...]
Tagged as: blogging, careers, cultural evolution, digital media, evolution, higher education, history, progress, social media, technology, trends
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