Seeing What’s Next: “Breaking the Wire” 2004. Christensen
A critical piece here is pricing, mobile technology is only affordable with low capacity data: texting and voice. Video and data is extremely expensive, everywhere. Telcos have already understood that we’re in a mobile, multi-tasking society and therefore it makes sense that we need technology that will [...]

The tragedy of the commons may be why we are in perpetual reach for perfection but we can never reach it, if we did we would destroy ourselves and if give up trying, we would destroys us too. We’re caught. Maybe this is the principle of the continuous state of chaos and change we [...]

“Communities in Cyberspace”
The Hong Kongs, New Yorks and Tokyos of the Internet (NYT, 30 October 2007)

The “Communities in Cyberspace” reading reinforces my view that in general the human reactions are similar no matter what technology we are looking. Yes, there are nuances with each one of the applications, but in general we’re still dealing [...]

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 [...]