Another year is over, and today I made what is becoming my annual visit to the Longplayer ‘listening post’ at Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse. It seemed busier than New Year’s Eve last year. The picture on the left was taken at lunchtime in the listening post at the top of the lighthouse — it shows […]
Month: December 2006
Quantity not quality: a year’s worth of CDs and where they came from
Photo copyright and cc-licensedby Enrico Fuente. I don’t make a big deal about New Year’s Resolutions, at least not in public. But I do aim to buy progressively fewer CDs each year. Five years ago, in 02001 and 02002, my ‘habit’ almost got out of hand: I was buying over 150 CDs a year. That’s […]
Blogs, wikis, ‘voice’ and accountability
Photo copyright and cc-licensedby extranoise. In the course of writing my book, I started by describing blogs and wikis as two examples of the same thing — user-generated content. Towards the end of the book, I came up against the ways in which they are opposites: blogs reinforce individual voices, points of view and attitudes, […]
Back in the blogging seat
After a couple of months of inactivity blog-wise, I’m returning to the scene, and hoping I haven’t lost everyone who used to visit here. I’ve actually been back in action since the beginning of the month, but mostly on other sites. Check my Net, Blogs and Rock’n’Roll blog for a couple of entries last week. […]
Steven Johnson and Brian Eno at the ICA
Yesterday evening the ICA put on an event that was part book launch for Steven Johnson’s new book, The Ghost Map (subtitle: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London — these long ‘pitch’ subtitles are getting out of hand), and part first UK event for the Long Now […]