Joi Ito: Full-Time Intimate Community.
this is unnervingly appealing to me. I think I have a problem.
I don't think it's a problem.
He really nails it here I think: "how presence and context is, in ways, more interesting than content and that content is just the carrier signal or substrate upon which community is built." I am perhaps too old to really grok this, since I still instinctively cling to the notion that content somehow justifies everything else, but I don't think people will think like that in the future. Which is to say, I don't think younger people use the net like I think I do - they use it like Joi is pointing out here. Or that's my guess at least.
FWIW, if people don't know, Joi Ito is a serious character. He runs a huge VC fund. Not to knock any other bloggers - like, um, myself - but he's not just another geek spouting off on things poorly understood.
Here's a Christopher Lydon interview, and here's a Fast Company article.
Interesting to note that he has just put a tremendous amount of support behind sixapart, makers of Movable Type.
When I do the thought experiment on giving myself permission to spend as much time/energy as I'd like on exploring forms of digital interconnection, the sacrifice that pops into my head is my deep connection to local friends (that I currently see almost daily), and dutiful connection to remote family who are untechnological. The following extrapolation is a stretch, but maybe we are seeing a cause/symptom of the dissolution of the nuclear family here? If so, there's lots and lots to be lost, but I personally would be more intrigued than grief stricken. I do, however, share with you a fundamental belief in content. Its the constant content that has me addicted to Digital Media Tree.
this feeling has just completely changed around for me due to my new ibook with airport card. Means I can be with my local friends and still be online. I don't completely understand why this is such a relief, but I feel a bit like some pending disaster has been averted.
Brand new? I didn't know you had an Mac.
always a mac (requisite for us art/design types)...G3 tower - now I've got the G4 ibook as well. Learning OSX now (comfortably well behind the trend, as usual) and I must say so far its very very nice. I like Safari a lot. The bookmarks organisation system is great: folders in the favourites bar ... and also you can make the fonts bigger/smaller with command + and - , to taste. Also, everybody's gifs look fine.
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- jim 3-27-2004 5:16 am
this is unnervingly appealing to me. I think I have a problem.
- sally mckay 3-27-2004 7:38 pm
I don't think it's a problem.
He really nails it here I think: "how presence and context is, in ways, more interesting than content and that content is just the carrier signal or substrate upon which community is built." I am perhaps too old to really grok this, since I still instinctively cling to the notion that content somehow justifies everything else, but I don't think people will think like that in the future. Which is to say, I don't think younger people use the net like I think I do - they use it like Joi is pointing out here. Or that's my guess at least.
FWIW, if people don't know, Joi Ito is a serious character. He runs a huge VC fund. Not to knock any other bloggers - like, um, myself - but he's not just another geek spouting off on things poorly understood.
Here's a Christopher Lydon interview, and here's a Fast Company article.
Interesting to note that he has just put a tremendous amount of support behind sixapart, makers of Movable Type.
- jim 3-27-2004 8:09 pm
When I do the thought experiment on giving myself permission to spend as much time/energy as I'd like on exploring forms of digital interconnection, the sacrifice that pops into my head is my deep connection to local friends (that I currently see almost daily), and dutiful connection to remote family who are untechnological. The following extrapolation is a stretch, but maybe we are seeing a cause/symptom of the dissolution of the nuclear family here? If so, there's lots and lots to be lost, but I personally would be more intrigued than grief stricken. I do, however, share with you a fundamental belief in content. Its the constant content that has me addicted to Digital Media Tree.
- sally mckay 3-27-2004 8:48 pm
this feeling has just completely changed around for me due to my new ibook with airport card. Means I can be with my local friends and still be online. I don't completely understand why this is such a relief, but I feel a bit like some pending disaster has been averted.
- sally mckay 3-29-2004 1:30 am
Brand new? I didn't know you had an Mac.
- jim 3-29-2004 2:30 am
always a mac (requisite for us art/design types)...G3 tower - now I've got the G4 ibook as well. Learning OSX now (comfortably well behind the trend, as usual) and I must say so far its very very nice. I like Safari a lot. The bookmarks organisation system is great: folders in the favourites bar ... and also you can make the fonts bigger/smaller with command + and - , to taste. Also, everybody's gifs look fine.
- sally mckay 3-29-2004 4:57 am