March 29th, 2010 Margaret Atwood wrote about twitter as populated by helpful fairies on the bottom of her garden eager to scold, encourage and correct her (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/mar/29/atwood-in-the-twittersphere/), now it has become a twungle/e-forest with rotating skulls pushing her towards political activism: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/12/deeper-twungle-atwood-twitter/. It’s a great trajectory to read. I have quoted Atwood in my forthcoming article on the use…
Tag: Innovation
The discourse of the free
I find open source information and crowd sourcing knowledge compelling ideas. They make knowledge a public good and can have the benefit of being non-hierarchical. The theory is that we all can share, contribute and learn, which is great. The enthusiasm with which the sharing of such knowledge is often discussed can be infectious. I…