Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Let’s recap: as content creation and distribution tends to infinity, community emerges as true internet-native media. Community is an exercise in cultural production, and communities filter content proliferate a specific point of view. The role of the community, then, is to create and curate cultural artifacts in-line with their collective point of... See more
Luxury Media
Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
sariazout.mirror.xyzsariazout.mirror.xyzWe are living through the emergence of a new business category that doesn’t even have a name yet, but which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: online communities at the intersection of content curation and knowledge management.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #55
The easier it is for the average person to publish, the more average what gets published becomes.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Despite the archival riches and the decentralized architecture, the net’s emphasis on the light-speed transmission of data for commercial gain, combined with our all-too-human hunger for diversion and distraction, has given rise to information empires of unprecedented scope. Our new emperors give us all the information we can consume but starve us... See more
Nicholas Carr • The Tyranny of Now
Because of the Web and social media, everyone now has the power to type out his ideas and spread them to millions of people. Memory isn’t a big problem anymore.
Dan Zarrella • Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas
The Internet, he wrote, is turning into a “megacomputer,” a “gargantuan Machine” that “will evolve into an integral extension not only of our senses and bodies but our minds.”