Through the many burned-by-blog-fire examples that Gillmor gives in his chapter “The Gates Come Down,” we get the sense that we are navigating through the waters of transformation of news media, very murky waters that is. The “new” news media is, on a good day, very transparent; on a bad day, an untangled yarn [...]

McLuhan (1964, 2003) The Medium is the Message.
McLuhan’s book had been sitting in my library for over a year. I tried to read it a few times, but I got flustered with his whimsical writing. I needed a little more context. And context is what the whole McLuhan debate is about. Before I ever [...]

1.    How can we use Victorian Internet to explain technology innovation

The VI is a lesson in sociology, we need to pay attention to the psychological patterns that we have as humans, because they tend to be the drivers behind tech evolutions and adoption
We’re always after the same thing, communicate.

2.    Why do we always want more [...]

Readings:

“As We May Think,” by Vannevar Bush from The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
“Whither Moore’s Law” in Christensen (Seeing What’s Next)

Christensen Morse’s Law could renamed Bill Gates’ “640K ought to be enough for anybody” law. Though I found this to be an interesting case study that disputes the general notion of endless need to [...]

Christensen, Seeing What’s Next - Part 1 - Using Theory to Analyze
“Ecologizing Mobile Media,” by Howard Rheingold. 2004.
“Determining Uses and Gratifications for the Internet,” from Decision Sciences, Vol 35 No 2, March 2004.

The readings by Rheingold and Christensen provided me with frameworks to identify key factors present in the evolution of technology in the marketplace, [...]