The Future of Conversation
I'm catching up with this topic and testing the quickest way to record an mp3 file for an Utterz audio. Answer: Record a podcast in Garageband and under Share menu "Export Song to Disk" in mp3 format. Small streamlinings like this advance the ability for my "conversation cloud" to follow me anywhere, anytime.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Bryron "Washy" Browne
The guy who is overseeing our new driveway.
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Tuna Oddfellow at Berkman Center
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Social Breakfast
Doug Haslam and Jack Hodgson at Jeff Pulver's social breakfast in
Cambridge.
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Ho Ho Nano!
Christmas window at the Cambridgeside Apple store the Saturday after
Thanksgiving.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Soon I'll be Out There Rowing...
Friday, November 23, 2007
Sofa in Morning Sunlight
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Recipe for a Media Snack - the Acronym
S-short N-new A-apt C-clear K-kind
Short - Jeremiah Owyang's mega-meme-launching post featured a video asserting that the world has changed, because of how young people are creating and consuming media. Although the video doesn't mention length specifically, the word "snack" implies brevity, compared with a full meal. Here are my personal guidelines for what's short enough to make a good media snack: Audio Podcast, 18 minutes; Video Podcast, 4 minutes; Twitter post, 100 characters; Seesmic video, 1 minute; blog entry: 1 screen.
New - Not existing before, original. "Make it new," the poet Ezra Pound proclaimed. We should, too.
Apt - What's suitable on YouTube? What's appropriate to a Tweet? You know it when you see it, and the way you understand what fits is to hang out for a while, taking in the rhythms and textures of the conversation.
Clear - What are we trying to say? It takes more work to say something in a few words than in lots of them. Get to the point.
Kind - There's plenty of room for crankiness in media snacks, but you've got to be as brilliant as Dave Winer or John C. Dvorak to pull that off year in and year out. My favorite media makers are honest but speak and write with compassion and playfulness, like Jim Long, Robert Scoble, Chris Brogan, and Steve Garfield, among many others.
Thanks to Elizabeth Dunn and Jim Long for tagging me on this meme! This Grazr reading list contains a few of the many responses to Jeremiah's original post.
Labels: media snack meme Owyang
Friday, November 09, 2007
How the Internet Changes Everything: Exhibit A from Jelly!
What is Jelly? from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.
I'm disappointed I won't be able to join tomorrow's Cambridge incarnation of Jelly! It's "casual coworking," where people bring laptops somewhere and do their individual work in the company of others. I heard about it in a Tweet from Bryan Person, who is spreading the word. I've got grandson babysitting duty on Mondays, so I won't be able to go. Otherwise I'd be on it in a second.
What I love about the introductory video above is how it showcases the diversity and energy of people working on the Internet. The California session is a random collective portrait, with screens showing everything from scary code to funny body parts for magnetic animals. Maybe I should bring my grandson, who will be two in February... In any event, this is the world he will enter, and his Grampa is eager to see what he'll do!
Labels: Jelly Bryan Person Cambridge Internet grandson coworking
Sunday, November 04, 2007
