We Build Our Tools
And They Shape Us:
How Lifestreaming Is Shaping Web Culture
Stowe Boyd

Author, /Message, Front Man for The /Messengers
Social tools and their impact on business, media, and society

Apologies

“We make our tools
and forever after they shape us.”
Marshall McLuhan

“A new category of
software is emerging,
software intended to
augment social
systems. […] I call
these social tools:
software intended to
shape culture.”
Social Tools

Tools

Streaming, Part 1

Social = Me First

Social Scale

Culture

Streaming, Part 2

Flow

Time

Media

Society

Work

The War On Flow

Stowe Boyd
stowe.boyd@gmail.com
www.stoweboyd.com

Credits
New York Stock Exchange Floor by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 1963 (LOC) - Pingnews.com -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/508717757/
Messerschmidt Blueprint - Synapse - http://www.flickr.com/photos/synapse/1384561426/
Color Animated fractal ........TendrillonGsr06102006 - SantaRosa OLD SKOOL -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santarosa/261923723/
The finest flow ever - Populux!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/56571568/
Creative Media Jam - Hospital - Factoids - http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoids/194864309/
Carp Streamer - m louis - http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-louis/140402492/
Passport - Gravitywave - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitywave/366712496/
Crowd walking to buses and cars after the fireworks - Jill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lij/1739672/
Closeup of newspaper stack - Binarydreams - http://www.flickr.com/photos/binarydreams/251690096/
Close Quarters - NNNNIC - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqrt/907934275/
Glider With Maneuverable Wing Extremities - Curious Expeditions -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/962399228/
Self-Centered? - TruthLying - http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthlying/30486286/
Late evening sunlight through clouds - reinholdbehringer - http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinholdbehringer/448792619/
Water Streaming Past - Inkswamp - http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkswamp/97457480/
Untitled - pjvandi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pejmanphotos/731315170/
Town Clock - joesflickr’s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesflickr/711358450/
Aidan’s First Airline Ticket - Aidan Love - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanlove/369638970/