Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term webstock09. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I'm the CEO and Founder of WeSprout, which is coming soon. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
Here’s the transcript of the Bruce Sterling talk I mentioned in my Ponzi Scheme post (that term is attributable to him):
Creative energies are liberated by oxymorons, by breakdowns in definitions. The Muse comes out when you look sidelong, over your shoulder.
and
Now, I wouldn’t want to claim that Web 2.0 is as frail as the financial system — the financial system that supported it and made it possible! But Web 2.0 is directly built on top of finance. Web 2.0 is supposed to be business. This isn’t a public utility or a public service, like the old model of an Information Superhighway established for the public good.
There’s a lot I don’t agree with in Sterling’s talk, and his delivery sure managed to piss a lot of people off, but the man had some beautiful words in there.
Thoughts on cloud computing, inspired by Bruce Sterling’s rant at Webstock. Key takeaway: don’t feed a family on a webapp that completely depends on an external service that could vanish at any time.