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I was in Venice last week. I’m afraid to say that it looks a bit different. In the middle of the picture above you can just make out the Bridge of Sighs – it’s the thing in the middle that isn’t an advert for a bank. Below is the Museo Correr end of St We have no idea, do we, of where this stuff will be in the future? “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.” That’s what Omar Khayyam wrote. But I thought this was gorgeous. Life looks so tidy when we’re speeded up. Small Life in Cologne from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo. We call the Internet a place. We go to sites. Marketing people talk about destinations. But that’s rubbish. The Internet is with me, and increasingly with most people, all of the time. It follows us as we go to other places. Increasingly, it helps us to navigate those places. You have probably seen it (Or, for those enjoying the puns, Nashional Guard.) Every social media destination has some sort of scoring mechanism: Twitter followers Linked-In contacts Facebook friends Blog subscribers/comments Those are the four I personally use most consistently, though I dip in and out of all the others to see what’s happening. They all have an equivalent. What’s the result The Foucault post yesterday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of criticisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists. My erstwhile-friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decentralisation of power in |             | |||
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