Lab Rats – Ep. 3: A Protest was my favourite of Mr Addison’s daft sitcom. The seven-nighter is pretty well entirely a build up for a cracking last gag, too.
Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, e-government and geekdom.
Monthly Archive for September, 2010
Gladwell argues that social revolutions can only happen in real life, not through social networks in Twitter, Facebook, and social activism.
I’m not convinced one can compare the relatively small number of revolutions in the noughties with pre-social networking, pre-internet revolutions.
I also dislike his use of intuition pumps (“No one believes that the articulation of a coherent design philosophy is best handled by a sprawling, leaderless organizational system.”, “How do you make difficult choices about tactics or strategy or philosophical direction when everyone has an equal say?”). You can’t just say no one believes this, because I’m pretty sure that isn’t the case (oops, there I go doing the same thing). There is a slight smack of the myth of the CEO here as well.
It is all very well arguing that weak networks can only provide wider and speedier access to information and that this can never be a disciplined revolution and thus dismissing weak networks, but this begs the question of whether the only interesting change is revolutionary.
To my mind, the slower cultural changes are far more interesting and far-reaching. As I recall (caveats, etc) there wasn’t a particular moment when being gay was thrust upon the UK political scene, but the gradual erosion of homophobia in the general population is impressive.
Some counterpoint: the Staggers agrees with Gladwell, while Mark Seddon calls on politicians to use new media in an open, discursive manner.
I was proud of how I left ITWs branding. I’m not so sure on pwcs.
http://goingconcern.com/2010/09/breaking-at-least-one-pwc-employee-isnt-sold-on-the-rebranding/
At $1,225 the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer is getting very close to affordable. Not that I have any space for one. Time to clear out the office, I think.
I’ve found a Google Calendar importable calendar that allows me to see the Arsenal FC Match Schedule 2010 – 2011 on my mobile as well as desktop calendars. Hurrah, fewer queues on the weekend. Plenty more calendars there if you are interested.
Nutter repairmen scale 1,768ft TV mast. Oh dear lord. Sweaty palm time. Couldn’t they use a helicopter? And surely coming down is far, far worse than going up?
Holiday reading accelerated a lot once we had left sunny Northumberland for even sunnier Crete and could roll out of bed into our own pool. Some crackers in there.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Light in August (Vintage Classics)
That’s the first time I have used a doggie bag with real intent. Shepherd’s pie for sharing at the St John’s Tavern was enough for four people, so we have tupperware in the fridge waiting to be dinner.
Yum.
I wonder if teenagers will recognise the black phones as phones?
Child Hunger, As Seen At Wal-Mart is a depressing parable for our times. I’m working with prepaid cards at the moment, so this illustration is some serious colour for our round tables.
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