[the crisis] is confirming the worst fears of Gen-Y, namely that our baby boomer parents are leaving us a world convulsed by war, drowning in debt and melting down under global warming”.
“Heroes” gives its fans cathartic validation: You inherited a screwed-up world, and it’s not your fault.
This idea was well formulated back in 2006 in a french book called “Nos enfants nous hairons” (Our child will hate us). It has since found a lot of proof of concept.
The main phrase of heroes is : “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”
So one quick question in the middle of the meltdown :
I’ve spent three days in london last week for the seedcamp event. It was brilliant. I’ve learned a lot listening to founders and tech guys from the best european startups (last.fm netlog, dopplr, skype…). I would have loved to make a proper and deep feedback of all the meetings I had (but the coming launch of our new product is taking all my time).
I’ve watched them several time (like I did with EPIC or Shift Happens), they are a source of creativity and of resilience. Working on this ideas for more than 4 years … they always give me a boost of energy when I am down. They are the future and I am very happy with the new release of Wesch : An anthropological introduction to youtube.
Participant Observation is what i have been doing for teh last 4 years. I am not commenting the web from outside, I am a member of the invisible crowd that when populating these websites (mine including). Working mainly on what identity means… with the idea that we are a puzzle, that we are on the verge of a netocratic era, that we are a construct more than ever (less social/peer pressure) free to endorse any subculture we want, test it and adopt it or not. Social Networks when mix with content (what we call Social Objects) are a possible path for expression, true identity … and re-echanting that post-modern world the GenY refuses
I do love travelling with couchsurfing (every month), sharing and improving my photographic skills with flickr, finding book on the street …. connecting in many various ways using various plateform for the sole purpose of solving this inversion culture Wesh is talking about :
Please watch his video it’s pure genius, he talks about context collapse, Identity crisis, Editing our own stories (I would say life : the title of this blog is “I edit therefore I am“) and it’s full of very very good example of what youtube could be (discovered a few new ones).
The only thing missing is probably a list of all the links towards all the video he is quoting.
Excellent work, nitro boost for all month of august… will probably watch it at least 3 times just for the purpose of recognition ;-D
Thanks to nic for pointing it to me even my youtube subscription did it (yet another example of that social broadcasting)
It’s been on my desktop for quite a few days, It’s a very deep and strong analysis of the new media landscape by Umair Haque, around 100 slides (available here). Lots of supply and demands curves, which enable to decrypt the value chain and how it’s moving. You are strongly invited to read it.
Here are my 4 favorites slides. First two on Aggregators and the second two on the value chain and the era of the snowball (very clever insertion into the long tail). Click on them to have a larger view.
At the end there is an advice that I personnaly really enjoy : “Get involved with at least one form of underground media to understand the snowball effect.” Subculture is the culture
The title of this blog is edit therefore I am. My intent is to observe the editable web but also to think about one larger topic : Virtual Identity and self-(re)presentation. Editing is fictional when it comes to editing representations of me.
To a man with a Twitter account, every action is a pretext.
What are you doing? is the question Twitter asks you to answer. But in the world of Twitter, there can be only one honest answer: I am twittering. Any other answer is a fib, a fabrication - a production.
As with other media of the self, Twitter makes the act subservient to its expression. It turns us into observers of our own lives, and not in the traditional sense of self-consciousness (watching with the inner eye) but in the mass media sense (watching with the eye of the producer). As the Observer Effect tells us, the act of observing the act changes the act.
I like the way Nicholas present this idea of having an act that is subservient to its expression. It’s not always the case (but it’s perfect for twitter). Generally, Editing is post production. And I will also make my own parallel. Editing makes the idea of the act uberservient to its realization. A kind of Hawthorne effect, or if i use images let’s say it’s photoshopping what was.
This is a personal example of this second process. During each of my European Tour Trip I am taking lot’s of pictures since I don’t do editing at all (no cropping, no photoshop) but I am doing an animated video (using animoto) which is post production. I do choose the music setting the atmosphere, I organize the pictures and create effect by assembling them. I know that it will be largely viewed (the one from the lensecamp currently has more than 1500 views), so I Hawthorne the trip and I am guilty of the observer effect. It’s looks probably more intense than reality
A blogpost from Danah on status : markers of status: different, and yet the same. In that post she describes exactly what i do believe in. Status will become specialize therefore applying to sub-culture.
Metrics for status have become diversified. [...] the status that matters is that which is conferred in everyday life. [...] I think that we’ll continue to see fantastic examples of individuals achieving status through their networked participation, but I don’t think that this will ever become mainstream.[...] And we will continue to see new subcultures with new markers of subcultural capital.
Status and markers are the reason why we subservient our uberservient our life or should i say our editing.
We’ve just created (thanks olivier) new logos for the opencoffee.
And we are proud to announce that the club is growing in France with a few new cities. Starting with Rennes (Once a month and already 20 person), Lille (34 person and adrien in charge) (click on the logo to go to the facebook group … websites on the way).
We are also working on Lyon, Marseille and maybe bordeaux.
I would like to thank the entrepreneur on the field in these different cities who are making it possible and help building a better ecosystem for France.
PLZ: note that we will use OPENCOFFEECITY (ex: OPENCOFFEERENNES) as tag for all the content produced.
Found thanks to Max Niederhofer’s blog. Amazing Commencement address from JK Rowling’s to Harvard Class of 2008. I love Commencement address because they are great views on life.
This one is great because it’s about failure redoing again and the power of imagination that enables to edit real world !!
PS: Max was at seedcamp Paris (didn’t manage to find the time to talk to him, despite my wish because I’ve been reading his blog for quite a long time). Seedcamp was about imagination and failure too (We tried as mentors to prevent some but we know that we will fail too ;-D and that those failing entrepreneurs will learn a lot too.) Good speech… let’s start again with a shadoks’ motto :
In trying continuously one eventually succeed. Thus, the more it fails the more likely one has that it works.
En essayant continuellement on finit par réussir. Donc: plus ça rate plus on a de chances que ça marche.
This idea was well formulated back in 2006 in a french book called “Nos enfants nous hairons” (Our child will hate us). It has since found a lot of proof of concept.
Just discovered a great initiative.
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