It’s a very interesting piece by Matt Webb on Attenuation, the process by which we filter and connect information to what it useful and relevant to us. I’m flagging it specifically because it’s such a big and important topic, and one I think any communications professional should give a lot of thought to.
And also, a reminder to myself to read Mr Webb’s blog more often, because it’s extremely sharp.
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Home alone. Bored. I really should do some bloody work, but I don’t want to. Someone do something amusing, please.
Again, not tech, although you might call it New Economics. Either way, Gross National Happiness sounds like a much better way of measuring national success to me.
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You know what’s sexy? Confident people having fun.
I mention this because I am back from the Alabama 3, and this description applies to the band, the dancing girls on stage, and the crowd of people I was dancing with in the audience.
It was a very good gig. Country and Gospel music for a chemical generation, this is the cleverest dance music I know. If the KLF have successors, the Alabama 3 are very much it[1], only they’ve gone one better. The KLF were just very clever. A3, on the other hand, put a bit of soul and passion into what they do, and it pays off all the better for it.
I was idly thinking about another music type that sounds like it’s basically a weld of late 80s/early 90s dance and another genre (goth) – EBM (and I’m sure a few people are about to leap on me for that generalisation, but I don’t really care) and how the A3’s brand of music really shows that lot up as a bit basically joyless. Something to come back to another time, perhaps. The important thing is that D. Wayne and Larry and their friends preached a very fine gospel tonight, and I for one am quite prepared to shut down my chakras and shift Shiva offa my shelf. Yes indeed.
[1] And I note the most of the serious KLF fans I know are also A3 fans…
This is a semi-regular hobby horse of mine, and here’s an interesting article on the idea that 90% of people’s use for culture is to remix it, and that fighting it (in the manner of the music and film industries) is bloody stupid.
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Or at least to the Astoria tomorrow (Tuesday) night, for the Alabama 3 gig, or am I on my tod for this one?
Nothing to do with technology, it just made me laugh…
Nice set of web-ready icons in various colours
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Web 2.0 is a near-meaningless term. Means whatever the listener thinks it means. But we’re clearly in the midst of a sea change in the way people use the Web, and El Reg has an article rounding up some of the major factors that are influencing it.
Scott Rosenberg on the danger of another internet bubble generated by all this Web 2.0 hype.
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Web 2.0 isn’t even properly here yet, and already I’m bored of the design style. I mean, I know that design goes in trends, and by late 2006, all the new launching stuff will look different, but I’m now heartily sick of sites with a white/cream background, and then pale blue, green and orangeused as colour indicators.
I’m sick of titles being in a slightly oversized blue font. Actually, I’m just sick of everything being slightly oversized. I’m sick of tag clouds, even though I know they’re here to stay. I’m sick of form elements that turn pastel yellow on selection.
One of the things I like about the web is the infinite variations on design, but thanks to the cleverness of a very few sites (Flickr and the 37 signals family of tools, it seems like everyone with a bit of Ajax-enabled software is using the same bloody colours all the damn time. Can we have some web 2.0 things that look different, please?
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And also to flatmates and anyone else that it might be useful for (Londoners, really).
I have been pointed in the direction of Firezza as a basically fucking excellent delivery pizza place.
Certainly the toppings sound good, but most importantly: a) you can order on-line, and b) by the meter. I mean, come on, who hasn’t wanted to order up a couple of meters of pizza at some point?