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thomas.purves commented on Enterprise 2.0 Thanks! 2 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities Ah but you can still make out what it says. This design is intentional :) (But I hope it doesn’t drive too many crazy) 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities Ah that is part of the point. The march of technology/media means many new things are possible but also that some old flavours are lost or just replaced. Architecture that was once possible is no longer. Detailing and ornate design were a flavour of a time when the economics of labour and craftmanship were different. Nowadays buildings are designed from factory designed components, doors, windows and siding selected from factory catalogs. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities If we are expanding the region of possible is it expanding in the right direction. Importance of using community as a filter as well as a possibility creator in thinking of emergent or peer designed architecture or cities. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities A Toronto suburb courtesy of Google maps 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=152445519&size=l wallyg (photo credit) 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities The new MoMA in NYC. Love it or hate it, how did modern design come to be designed this way? 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities http://flickr.com/photos/k9/47330119/ Ko(char *)hook 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities The long tail changes the ground rules of meme/medium emergence. At the same time new open media also lets us each bird also see the shape of the flock. Potentially/paradoxically accelerating such arbitrary forces such as tipping points and snowball effects that dictate the emergence of dominant cultural memes or designs. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities A mall in Toronto. Not especially pretty. How did it come to this? 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities These are two exterior walls. They serve (roughly) the same physical purpose. They live across the street. 52nd street if I remember.B) is the north side of the brand new redesign of the the NYC MoMA A) is just another building of another century facing it across the street. right across the street.They have a different flavour. In general, all media have a flavour. By it’s flavour I mean the medium’s idiosyncrasies, it’s accidental memes of little common details, you might call it it’s character. How often do we choose a medium based on it’s flavour? how often do flavours choose us?Does the character of our age choose our mediums, or do our mediums determine the character of our age? 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities The long lasting and unexpected flavours of the car. Take this as an example. How much of the flavour our world resulted from the simple invention of a horse-less carriage? 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities Open communities and peer production are a great source of free labour, reversing the paradigm of the steadily increasing costs of human inputs associated with the industrial revolution and the economic expansion of the 20th century. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities Even if we believe that these are each awesome in their own way, there was never a chance to choose. What was once possible in 1890 is no longer possible in 2007. (and vice versa). The zone of the possible has shifted. When we introduce new media, we must introduce some new flavours and obsolesce some other ones and so we gain new possibility in one space and lose it somewhere else. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Dead Media & The Flavour of Cities Clash of mediums, flavours, and ways of life. Rural America 1930s. 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Social Media, the importance of Communities (and how to get one) Please don’t mind the squirrelly typography. slideshare.net doesn’t yet understand powerpoint 2007 and the new MS fonts :( 3 years ago
thomas.purves commented on Enterprise 2.0 For more on Enterprise2.0 see also my blog http://thomaspurves.com and the company I work for: http://firestoker.com 3 years ago

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