*Nice "social intelligence embedded in urban objects" riff.
The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.
*Maybe the theorists are right, and viral video really IS gonna kick the ass of commercial television. I just blogged two classic pieces of viral video here, while my commercial television has empty hand-wringing about the recent Italian earthquake.
*I get it that earthquakes are terrific human tragedies requiring news coverage, but instead of emptily watching those foil-clad volunteers with their shovels and cellphones, shouldn't people with screens *click on something* and maybe
*do something* about that earthquake? I mean, *participative earthquakes*
would be a lot more with-it than *televised earthquakes,* am I right here?
*This just in: okay, Italian quake viewers "formerly known as the audience," go for it:
http://www.wired.it/news/archivio/2009-04/06/aiutateci-ad-aiutarli.aspx
