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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
With just 1 message a day…
… The Listserve has renewed my faith in the Internet.
Towards a Reconnected Future
“…it is not unfathomable to imagine a prospective society that finds the tic itself [compulsive mobile gadget use] to be as abhorrent and vile as today’s culture does cigarettes. In that putative future, smartphone users would be relegated to special rooms in airports, where passers by would shake their heads disapprovingly at the grey faces …
Distracted
All I Can Do
Tuesday is Like Day
Motorized
Inbox as Identity
Some of my best friends
In order to get the attention of a Realboy’s community, we decided that the Realboy should tweet about the topics that are important to the community. In order to avoid having to worry about natural language parsing and sentence construction, we decided to simply duplicate tweets about these important topics. We decided to let each …
What if the function of a local newspaper was…
…to create and maintain digital production and distribution tools for an audience to inform itself? “Content production tools scale. Social media tools scale. Topical communities can scale (depending on the topic). Local news does not scale.” – Robert Niles