Google died on May 24, 2007. Not Google the company, nor the stock, but the idea of Google as this unstoppable juggernaut of world internet domination. Facebook opened up its platform to 3rd party developers- it moved from Facebook 1.0 to Facebook 2.0- and nothing has been quite the same since. I am not sure […]
Category Archives: Media Futures
Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, stands in front of Media Futures at the Open Data Conference in NY And so, what does exhibitionism have to do with Wall Street? How does the voyueristic behavior of 20-somethings relate to the commission decisions of hedge fund masters of the universe? Traditionally, very little. Or at least […]
Web Alchemy Exactly two years ago, in April 2005, I wrote the first chapter on Alchemy in the Media Futures series. Over the course of history, Alchemy always promised more than it could deliver. But it was this promise that captured the imagination of people and drew their Attention to the very impossibility of turning […]
My encounter last month with Valleywag over avant garde playright and director Brecht resonated enough in the blogosphere so as to make this site the top result now for the query "seth brecht" or "brecht seth." And so thanks to some kind Attention alchemy, I have become an authority on the subject of Brecht (at […]
I always loved you You always had a lot of style I’d hate to see you on the pile Of ‘nearly-made-it’ s You’ve got the essence, dear If I could have a second skin I’d probably dress up in you Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit Welcome to the readerverse. Just as pages and sites […]
