public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jeanruaud with tags culture & technology

February 2009

The End of Alone

[The world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. What we lose with our constant connectedness]

Amish Hackers

[very good article on Amish society, technology and hacker attitude]

July 2008

June 2008

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging t

How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudg