Reads tagged with “social web”
Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on the Malady of “Content” and How to Save Creative Culture from the Syphoning of Substance
“When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet.”
The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World
“Everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation, in whole or in certain parts.”
Cicero’s Web: How Social Media Was Born in Ancient Rome
How the dynamics of papyrus scrolls explain Facebook.
Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online
“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”
Anaïs Nin on the Meaning of Life and the Dangers of the Internet, Before the Internet
“We believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people… This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us.”
100 Ideas That Changed the Web
From the mouse to the GIF, by way of the long tail and technology’s forgotten female pioneers.
How to Master on the Art of Getting Noticed: Austin Kleon’s Advice to Aspiring Artists
How to balance the contagiousness of raw enthusiasm with the humility of knowing we’re all in this together.
Aesthetic Consumerism and the Violence of Photography: What Susan Sontag Teaches Us about Visual Culture and the Social Web
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
Happy Birthday, United Amateur Press Association: H. P. Lovecraft on the Early Spirit of “Blogging”
“Our amateurs write purely for love of their art, without the stultifying influence of commercialism.”
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