Another important idea in this project is looking at how popular culture really played out from the point of view of ordinary people, rather than from those making mass media. I’ve come to believe that we need to start telling our own stories in our own ways about our own lives, rather than relying on…
The reason for stuff staying in the shoebox is often “Who would want to see this?” This is partly because we’re used to the idea that in order for something to be made publicly available, a lot of people need to want to see it. The reason that used to be the case is that…
[This post is about the Bromsgrove Digital Shoebox project – bds] I’m thinking about the scope of media/content/stuff. It’s a balancing act, working out where to draw the lines – what should be included, what should be outside the remit of the project. It doesn’t actually matter that these lines are arbitrary and flexible, but…
It’s back, even though it never really went away! Five years ago, a few of us were pushing around the idea of y’know getting people together on a regular basis who otherwise were hanging out in cyber-social-media-space. There were some experiments in late 2007 & early 2008 but The first regular prototype of the London…
[meta advisory – for regular readers of this blog, you’ll notice that the title is prefaced with the tag: bds for Bromsgrove Digital Shoebox. I will likely be writing about this quite a bit over the next few months and I’ll try to remember to tag the titles so that you can make a better…
Here we are again, then. 48 feels so much nicer than 47, 47 is an unwrangleable prime, it’s great to be 2x2x2x2x3. My 16th birthday (feels like yesterday) was a third of the way here. My mood is tempered by my need this morning for emergency dental treatment. The pain has been creeping up on…
I had a conversation with a friend this morning that has become quite traditional for me at this time of year. It’s my birthday on Sunday and obviously Christmas a couple of days after and I’ve come to dread the days leading up when people say to me “What do you want for your Birthday…
Kevin Kelly via Russell Davies “The Paleolithic rhythm actually reflects the “predator rhythm,” since the great hunters of the animal world, the lion and other large cats, exhibit the same style: hunting to exhaustion in a short burst and then lounging around for days afterward.” I’ve lounged. I’m hungry. It’s time to go hunting again….
Christian just tweeted with a link to lists of old BBS’s And so I ended up looking at this list for the UK in 1994 and thinking there’s a culturematic in doing the following: Bring the STD codes up to date (mostly “add a 1” but there have been other changes) Call each of the…
Nothing to see here, move right along, folks…