Archive for December, 2011

the image of being there

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

In ‘summary of the year just gone’ style a recent article in The Guardian points to the massive increase in the use of camera phone generated content by news providers in 2011. The Arab Spring is cited as being the ‘tipping point’ both in the central role that citizen media played in the international community’s [...]

the logic of madness

Friday, December 30th, 2011

I have a bad habit of keeping tabs open for months as a guilty index of all my undeveloped thoughts – current count at time of writing = 44 tabs. “Must think about that further – keep tab open” is CPU intensive procrastination. Eventually my browser crashes, I load them all again and cull a [...]