Professional Auteurism / 20.01.2003

The Net is redefining our social space. Hyperbole aside, in the last week I've discovered two new ways to define my net community. Did I tell you I'm reading Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs? Howard has researched the ways technology is changing how we interact. Yet, as a coworker suggested, he writes about it as if he's telling a story. Makes a potentially "geeky" read into a powerful and engaging one. Every so often I get really excited by someone's writing. This is a book I not only can't put down, but one that immediately puts me into a creative trance. Ideas,...

Book Reports, Commuting with Nature / 09.01.2003

I was deep into Howard Rheingold's new book, Smart Mobs, when I looked up and discovered that twelve other people in the subway car were reading it as well. As I raised my eyes, everyone lowered their books to give me a knowing glance. Was this a peer-to-peer network Howard and Cory Doctorow were talking about? Persistant and ubiquitous communication. The wireless net on the Red Line just coming into Union Station. Howard's books were the nodes. Parts of my new community got off, but more walked in. Almost everyone now sported a turquoise-covered hardback up against their nose. I was...