Global Culture

In the early days of the web (circa 1994) a few geeks would spend countless hours writing code to create their homepages. Very few people would care, but the joy of crafting a space that would reflect a piece of their personality was a reward in itself. A few days ago I watched [...]

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The December issue of Wired Magazine devoted its cover page to Lonelygirl15 with the article The Secret World of Lonelygirl by Joshua Davis. While this phenomenon is hardly new, I think it provides important cues as to how the well established medium of TV is facing its biggest threat.
In the summer of 2006, [...]

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The winter edition of Reconstruction is now online with a collection of essays about the Theories and Practices of Blogging.
Global Culture is featured in the Why I Blog section, among a fascinating list of peers addressing the fundamental question about our craft. It is difficult to understand how a medium that [...]

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If you google “cultura global” (global culture in spanish), you’ll get a summary of a session help during the Forum Barcelona 2004. Although the linked page is in Spanish, there is an English version available. The name of the session was “Is There a Global Culture? The Globalization of Media and the Culture [...]

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We don’t work because we have to. We work because it is deeply engrained in our culture that one must work. In his book “The Hacker Ethic” (see sidebar), Prof. Himanen provides a very solid example of cultural anthropology when he digs for the origin of such practice, all the way back to [...]

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Need help settling in a brand new city and don’t know where to start? While it is one of the reasons this project got started (read participate), long before this blog started I was already volunteering time to help the ocassional friend of a friend find its way in Toronto by sharing stories about [...]

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Social Networks. If you’re reading blogs you probably have heard of them. The furor around the media would seem to indicate that they are about the revolutionize the ways of societies. They are correct, except their observation is a few decades late. In fact, the social networks I’m interested in don’t [...]

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