Well, at least I am going to use this platform to describe a few things I have been thinking about and working while I look for work in Sydney.
A little fantasy about how digital journalism could change. The news will follow us, wherever we go.
It's a good idea to teach by example. Here is my QR Code for my WeChat account
As we further hand over the management of our social relationships to Facebook, perhaps we need to pause for a moment and consider whether Facebook understands friendship.
This realization has crept upon me. Even though I've talked about the flatness of information structures before, I'm seeing a strong pattern emerge which is, well, kind of blowing my mind. Keep in mind, I am a serious structuralist.
A friend just sent me a link on 'Eventual consistency', a term used to describe a problem of syncing data between cloud servers. This was in response to some bizarre behaviour I have been noticing in Facebook. The term itself, eventual consistency, reminded me of Italo Calvino, for many reasons. Check out pretty much any of his books (If on a winter's night a traveler) or stories (t zero) and you'll know how important time was to him. His final work was a lecture he was unable to give (due to a problem he had with time), entitled "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". In the lecture, he outlined the six important ideas (or values) that needed to be addressed...