Category: commentary
More Post Symposium Chatter
Rachel has another one about why numbers (quantity) versus who/what (quality) is probably a better measure of authority. Once upon a time one person said the sun was the centre of the solar system. On... Read More
Blog Clients
In the symposium I mentioned that I use a blog client. I have used ecto, which looks like its become shelf ware, am currently using MarsEdit, but this one turned up today which I particularly like the... Read More
Thickness of Ideas
A lot going on here in Monique’s post. The intriguing thing becomes the new distribution of expertise, with two consequences. How do we now determine expertise, and what do the old experts (who ... Read More
Memex, Camera’s the size of Walnuts
Mia likes the Bush reading and wonders about the camera of the future. It’s here, there’s a couple out there, narrative clip is one. Michael is also impressed, the memex that Bush describe... Read More
Après Symposium
George on validity of things. For me this is ‘validity of things’ and not ‘validity of things online’. The rules we use off line apply online too. Laura makes the well made poi... Read More
More on Ted Nelson
Callum with some good observations about Nelson, though I hope as we will find out soon the idea that search engines have realised what hypertext is will be seen to be fairly wide of the mark. Amy has... Read More