Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Opinion | David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative filmmaker - The Washington Post 2025-01-22T06:30:26+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/18/david-lynch-conservative/ robertogreco timcarmody davidlynch film filmmaking conservatism politics 2024 masculinity clinteastwood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa91099a38f2/ HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me | WIRED 2025-01-08T23:14:05+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/ robertogreco timcarmody 2025 html programming development software hypertext code coding web internet online language languages timeberners-lee https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ebbe0ddd464d/ The internet is too big 2019-06-21T20:43:04+00:00 https://theweek.com/articles/848231/internet-big robertogreco scale navneetalang 2019 internet web socialmedia facebook twitter youtube interoperability chat maxread size networks networkeffect calendars communication dicsovery intimacy groupchat messaging email online timcarmody robinsloan nostalgia humanscale humanism humanity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:30daeb1bf343/ A Genealogy of Blue 2019-04-16T21:03:04+00:00 https://kottke.org/19/04/a-genealogy-of-blue robertogrecoblue color colors 2019 fashion history timcarmody meaning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e5630776fdb6/ Making useful three-dimensional maps 2018-09-22T00:23:40+00:00 https://kottke.org/18/09/making-useful-three-dimensional-maps robertogrecomaps mapping 3d timcarmody dataviz visualization tobyeglesfield newzealand https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e72b6a1ee592/ 👀 Truth in Photography - Technological Change - Lost In Translation. 8/17/2018 2018-08-17T23:54:13+00:00 https://mailchi.mp/kottke/truth-in-photography-technological-change-lost-in-translation-8172018 robertogrecotimcarmody photography errolmorris wimwenders smarthphones cameras art neilpostman technology change truth posing iphone https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92abf9454acf/ Facebook is wrong, text is deathless 2018-02-12T01:27:31+00:00 https://kottke.org/16/06/facebook-is-wrong-text-is-deathless robertogreco timcarmody 2016 text facebook canon communication evolution resilience efficiency elegance adaptability simplicity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c1e3876b46a/ No one’s coming. It’s up to us. – Dan Hon – Medium 2018-02-11T04:25:14+00:00 https://medium.com/@hondanhon/no-ones-coming-it-s-up-to-us-de8d9442d0d robertogreco danhon technology 2018 2017 johnperrybarlow ethics society calltoaction politics policy purpose economics inequality internet web online computers computing future design debchachra ingridburrington fredscharmen maciejceglowski timcarmody rachelcoldicutt stacy-marieishmael sarahjeong alexismadrigal ericmeyer timmaughan mimionuoha jayowens jayspringett stacktivism georginavoss damienwilliams rickwebb sarawachter-boettcher jamebridle adamgreenfield foocamp timoreilly kaitlyntiffany fredturner tomcarden blainecook warrenellis danhill cydharrell jenpahljka robinray noraryan mattwebb mattjones danachisnell heathercamp farrahbostic negativeexternalities collectivism zeyneptufekci maciejcegłowski https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c939361af730/ Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter 2018-01-07T05:14:40+00:00 https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy robertogreco“When I first used the term ‘secondary orality,’ I was thinking of the kind of orality you get on radio and television, where oral performance produces effects somewhat like those of ‘primary orality,’ the orality using the unprocessed human voice, particularly in addressing groups, but where the creation of orality is of a new sort. Orality here is produced by technology. Radio and television are ‘secondary’ in the sense that they are technologically powered, demanding the use of writing and other technologies in designing and manufacturing the machines which reproduce voice. They are thus unlike primary orality, which uses no tools or technology at all. Radio and television provide technologized orality. This is what I originally referred to by the term ‘secondary orality.’ I have also heard the term ‘secondary orality’ lately applied by some to other sorts of electronic verbalization which are really not oral at all—to the Internet and similar computerized creations for text. There is a reason for this usage of the term. In nontechnologized oral interchange, as we have noted earlier, there is no perceptible interval between the utterance of the speaker and the hearer’s reception of what is uttered. Oral communication is all immediate, in the present. Writing, chirographic or typed, on the other hand, comes out of the past. Even if you write a memo to yourself, when you refer to it, it’s a memo which you wrote a few minutes ago, or maybe two weeks ago. But on a computer network, the recipient can receive what is communicated with no such interval. Although it is not exactly the same as oral communication, the network message from one person to another or others is very rapid and can in effect be in the present. Computerized communication can thus suggest the immediate experience of direct sound. I believe that is why computerized verbalization has been assimilated to secondary ‘orality,’ even when it comes not in oral-aural format but through the eye, and thus is not directly oral at all. Here textualized verbal exchange registers psychologically as having the temporal immediacy of oral exchange. To handle [page break] such technologizing of the textualized word, I have tried occasionally to introduce the term ‘secondary literacy.’ We are not considering here the production of sounded words on the computer, which of course are even more readily assimilated to ‘secondary orality’” (80-81). So tweets and text messages aren’t oral. They’re secondarily literate. Wait, that sounds horrible! How’s this: they’re artifacts and examples of secondary literacy. They’re what literacy looks like after television, the telephone, and the application of computing technologies to those communication forms. Just as orality isn’t the same after you’ve introduced writing, and manuscript isn’t the same after you’ve produced print, literacy isn’t the same once you have networked orality. In this sense, Twitter is the necessary byproduct of television. Now, where this gets really complicated is with stuff like Siri and Alexa, and other AI-driven, natural-language computing interfaces. This is almost a tertiary orality, voice after texting, and certainly voice after interactive search. I’d be inclined to lump it in with secondary orality in that broader sense of technologically-mediated orality. But it really does depend how transformative you think client- and cloud-side computing, up to and including AI, really are. I’m inclined to say that they are, and that Alexa is doing something pretty different from what the radio did in the 1920s and 30s. But we have to remember that we’re always much more able to make fine distinctions about technology deployed in our own lifetime, rather than what develops over epochs of human culture. Compared to that collision of oral and literate cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean that gave us poetry, philosophy, drama, and rhetoric in the classical period, or the nexus of troubadours, scholastics, printers, scientific meddlers and explorers that gave us the Renaissance, our own collision of multiple media cultures is probably quite small. But it is genuinely transformative, and it is ours. And some days it’s as charming to think about all the ways in which our heirs will find us completely unintelligible as it is to imagine the complex legacy we’re bequeathing them."]]> 2018 timcarmody classics homer literature poetry literacy orality odyssey walterong secondaryorality writing texting sms twitter socialmedia technology language communication culture oraltradition media film speech signlanguage asl tv television radio telephones phones americansignlanguage theodyssey https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cba28292bc46/ Zines are the future of media 2017-12-23T21:12:37+00:00 https://kottke.org/17/12/zines-are-the-future-of-media robertogreco timcarmody kawandeepvirdee zines publishing blogs blogging digital publications 2017 2018 quarterlies classideas cv conformity medium media predictions design originality weirdness aesthetics freshness internet amandahess web online graphicdesign layout webdesign indie indieweb diversity anti-formalism relatability surprise variety craft pacing howwewrite howweread print papernet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f49ffd0f41af/ LeBron James and the Philly Beard Theory 2017-12-22T19:20:40+00:00 https://kottke.org/17/12/lebron-james-and-the-philly-beard-theory robertogrecosports nba lebronjames timcarmody 2017 beards hair philadelphia culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9767e6cffb08/ The hidden heart of Howl’s Moving Castle 2017-10-29T22:23:07+00:00 https://kottke.org/17/10/the-hidden-heart-of-howls-moving-castle robertogrecoHowl’s castle, like many of Miyazaki’s objects-come-alive, is powered by a terrific, dazzling magic that contradicts itself. It has an opalite quality, akin to a clear opaqueness. To his enemies, the magic all around Howl is a sinisiter curse in need of purging by the righteous. To his friends, it can heal a broken heart or give flight to the grounded. What kind of thing can make one person see evil and good? In Howl’s world, like ours, perspective is everything. The indescribable beauty of living and loving is a contradiction to the realities of aging, death, and war. It is magic because it is a power which defies a dark reality. The most relatable thing about Howl, Sophie, and the other residents of the castle is how they experience emotions so big and so complex that they don’t fully understand them. They don’t understand each other’s motives. They don’t understand their own. But somehow they learn to trust and care for each other anyways. And that care — not power, knowledge, or any other transaction — manages to save them."]]> timcarmody 2017 howl'smovingcastle hayaomiyazaki care caring love trust film storytelling margaritanoriega https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f8b7ba84bde0/ The angel of history 2017-02-05T20:37:05+00:00 http://kottke.org/17/01/the-angel-of-history robertogrecoThis is one of the greatest errors Americans can make. The identity they fought so hard to protect has, by virtue of that battle, undergone a change: Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for example, that it is too much to suggest that the American vision of the world — which allows so little reality, generally speaking, for any of the darker forces in human life, which tends until today to paint moral issues in glaring black and white — owes a great deal to the battle waged by Americans to maintain between themselves and black men a human separation which could not be bridged. It is only now beginning to be borne in on us — very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against our will— that this vision of the world is dangerously inaccurate, and perfectly useless. For it protects our moral high-mindedness at the terrible expense of weakening our grasp of reality. People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. No road whatever will lead Americans back to the simplicity of this European village where white men still have the luxury of looking on me as a stranger. I am not, really, a stranger any longer for any American alive. One of the things that distinguishes Americans from other people is that no other people has ever been so deeply involved in the lives of black men, and vice versa. This fact faced, with all its implications, it can be seen that the history of the American Negro problem is not merely shameful, it is also something of an achievement. For even when the worst has been said, it must also be added that the perpetual challenge posed by this problem was always, somehow, perpetually met. It is precisely this black-white experience which may prove of indispensable value to us in the world we face today. This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
" … "In short, I believe in the future — not a paradise, not a tranquil place, not a reward, but in all its mundane possibility and broken uncertainty. I choose to believe in the future, simply because we have nowhere else to go."]]> timcarmody 2017 culture history walterbenjamin fragility refugees jamesbaldwin deadwood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6c46fc221702/ Facebook is wrong, text is deathless 2016-06-17T19:18:51+00:00 http://kottke.org/16/06/facebook-is-wrong-text-is-deathless robertogrecoIn five years time Facebook "will be definitely mobile, it will be probably all video," said Nicola Mendelsohn, who heads up Facebook's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, at a conference in London this morning. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has already noted that video will be more and more important for the platform. But Mendelsohn went further, suggesting that stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech. "The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video," Mendelsohn said. "It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us to digest much more information." Maybe this is coming from deep within the literacy bubble, but: Text is surprisingly resilient. It's cheap, it's flexible, it's discreet. Human brains process it absurdly well considering there's nothing really built-in for it. Plenty of people can deal with text better than they can spoken language, whether as a matter of preference or necessity. And it's endlessly computable -- you can search it, code it. You can use text to make it do other things. In short, all of the same technological advances that enable more and more video, audio, and immersive VR entertainment also enable more and more text. We will see more of all of them as the technological bottlenecks open up. And text itself will get weirder, its properties less distinct, as it reflects new assumptions and possibilities borrowed from other tech and media. It already has! Text can be real-time, text can be ephemeral -- text has taken on almost all of the attributes we always used to distinguish speech, but it's still remained text. It's still visual characters registered by the eye standing in for (and shaping its own) language. Because nothing has proved as invincible as writing and literacy. Because text is just so malleable. Because it fits into any container we put it in. Because our world is supersaturated in it, indoors and out. Because we have so much invested in it. Because nothing we have ever made has ever rewarded our universal investment in it more. Unless our civilization fundamentally collapses, we will never give up writing and reading. We're still not even talking to our computers as often as we're typing on our phones. What logs the most attention-hours -- i.e., how media companies make their money -- is not and has never been the universe of communications. (And my god -- the very best feature Facebook Video has, what's helping that platform eat the world -- is muted autoplay video with automatic text captions. Forget literature -- even the stupid viral videos people watch waiting for the train are better when they're made with text!) Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture -- but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine -- but if you bet against text, you will lose."]]> facebook internet text literacy timcarmody 2016 video media culture history future communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d8193cccfee9/ Being rich isn’t a superpower, and Steve Jobs isn’t Spider-Man 2015-10-12T06:21:08+00:00 http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/14571/rich-spider-man-steve-jobs/ robertogrecoThe romanticized version of Jobs’ life offers a story wherein one can imagine a capitalism with integrity, a capitalism where one’s inner life, one’s flaws, one’s passions are appreciated and lead to good things. The Jobs narrative offers the appealing vision of an idealized, productive, humane capitalism contrasted with the speculative, predatory kind of capitalism, unconnected to useful objects or activities, that appeared in the headlines after 2008. The name of Steve Jobs has become the symbol for the opposite of a Wall Street financial manipulator. Jobs functions, not always but often, as a signifier of good capitalism, of industrial capitalism with moral integrity. And in a world straining awkwardly, perhaps desperately, for ways to reconcile capitalist production with political democracy, that signifier can seem immensely useful and attractive. Now consider The Amazing Spider-Man #1. Peter Parker is still a superhero, a good guy—so the story’s authors go out of their way to dot every I and cross every T to make sure we know that he’s still a good guy, one still obsessed with “great responsibility.” Parker explains that his goal with Parker Industries isn’t to save the world—which superheroes do every day—but to “make a world worth saving.” Over the course of the issue, we learn that his factories in China pay fair wages, that he’s taken a minimum salary, and that along with consumer products, the company works on biotechnology and renewable energy. When SHIELD helps Spider-Man stop thieves who’ve made off with Parker Industries’ customer data, Spider-Man strong-arms Nick Fury into handing the data back without the government taking a peek. He’s even started an “Uncle Ben Foundation” with the vague but noble mandate of “going around the globe using Parker Industries technology to help the less fortunate and raise the quality of life wherever we can.” It’s half Gates Foundation, half Batman Incorporated. “We’re not here to build a fortune,” Parker says, “we’re here to build the future.” In short, as a businessman, a superhero, and a human being, the new Peter Parker, the world’s greatest self-made superhero, is impeccably, improbably, offensively good. Peter Parker is what you get if you tally our persistent anxieties about the power and personality of Jobs, Zuckerberg, Bezos, et al—and then just alleviate them: the perfectly polished superhero entrepreneur. If the real Steve Jobs is not available to serve as our imaginary heroic capitalist—whether because his personality is too flawed, the businesses he built are too imperfect, or simply because we can’t continue to tell new stories about him—Spider-Man is available forever. This is not to say that all CEO superheroes are as perfect as Peter Parker. For Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Oliver Queen, and other wealthy superheroes, exploring business gives the writers room to explore the characters’ flaws and mistakes: their obsessiveness, their addictions, their immaturity. In fact, often these characters can sometimes seem barely likable. But in many ways—just as with Steve Jobs—this focus on flaws is still an act of reconciliation and never really jars the premise that the story being told is the story of a hero. The assumption remains that, barring a mind swap with a supervillain or a mystical personality reversal, these men (and it’s almost always men) are fundamentally good. On the outside they may be flaky, boorish, and arrogant. Still, they feel things, have powerful value systems, and ultimately want most of all to improve the world—if not save it. If they were not superheroes, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne would be awful people. (They also resemble many young men in the worlds of business and technology.) Because we know Stark and Wayne are superheroes—and because we intimately know the history and personality traits that drive them—we forgive them everything. (Can you think of a better way to try to understand Elon Musk?) Despite their flaws, our superheroes are what we want our capitalists to be. More subtly, they also give us tools we can use to understand ourselves—to reconcile our own wealth and power relative to others, our own status as citizens of global superpowers in a world filled with injustice, a world needing to be saved." … "In recent years, there have been a handful of comic book stories where superpowers have become consumer goods. MGH (mutant growth hormone), Xperience, and Kick are all mutant-derived drugs that induce or boost superpowers. All of them are addictive and deadly in various degrees. But in a recent storyline, Iron Man/Tony Stark suffers a magic reversal spell that changes his personality. “Evil” Stark moves to San Francisco, where he creates a smartphone application and nanobot stack that lets users change their bodies to whatever they want, including boosted intelligence, health, beauty, and even immortality. Initially, he gives away the powers for free, but when adoption peaks, he remotely shuts them down, charging $99.99 a day for continued activation. The wealthy continue enjoying superhuman life, desperate users turned to crime, and Stark’s company makes a killing. Eventually, employee/love-interest Pepper Potts stops him, with the aid of a robot programmed with Stark’s old “good” personality. When that fails, Potts—a talented and quite wealthy business mind in her own right—buys out media outlets and blackmails Stark with the promise to expose the scheme. The Superior Iron Man is literally a story of good capitalist versus bad capitalist, masquerading as a critique of contemporary tech culture. But the funny thing is that the “evil” Tony Stark doesn’t seem all that different from the “good” Tony Stark of past years. A little more craven, a little more louche, less evil than he is amoral. The difference between superheroes and supervillains turns out to be little more than a matter of perspective and degree. It is tempting to think of our new capabilities as superpowers, because that makes us, in some way, superheroes. It is tempting to think of the inventors of our new technologies as heroes, icons, brilliant men and women of vision and ethics who overcame their own limitations and external opposition to save the day. It means that to cheer for them is to cheer for good. It means we live in a world that is both more magical and more ordered—even more human— than the one we know. It is much more distressing to ask ourselves, “What if we are not the hero in the story? What if we are not even the villain? What if the story was never even ours at all?”"]]> 2015 timcarmody superpowers superheroes comics stevejobs technology wealth capitalism thomasstreeter marcandreessen tonystark ironman spider-man brucewayne batman siliconvalley elonmusk peterparker howardhughes jrobertoppenheimer markzuckerberg inequality robertoppenheimer oppenheimer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b6a20041abe/ Whitney Houston and the music of loneliness / Snarkmarket 2015-06-14T00:57:01+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7653 robertogreco loneliness timcarmody 2013 mattthompson whitneyhouston music desire beachboys royorbison vulnerability insecurity shyness uncertainty emotions love connection humans beinghuman hope proust marcelproust https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b288061f55f/ Watching football after a traumatic brain injury — The Message — Medium 2015-02-02T18:49:29+00:00 https://medium.com/message/watching-football-after-a-traumatic-brain-injury-518a3afbdee2 robertogreco 2015 timcarmody americanfootball health cigarettes smoking soda football culture brain change taboos nfl sports https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ad94ef491182/ Every cup of coffee is a spectacle of logistics 2015-01-08T01:57:54+00:00 http://kottke.org/14/07/every-cup-of-coffee-is-a-spectacle-of-logistics robertogreco coffee logistics timcarmody 2014 robinsomeyer supplychains systemicsublime systems systemsthinking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f644df55c782/ The 60-second interview: Tim Carmody, independent technology journalist | Capital New York 2015-01-06T01:22:52+00:00 http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/01/8559440/60-second-interview-tim-carmody-independent-technology-journalist robertogreco timcarmody interviews academia journalism highered highereducation writing text media snarkmarket context research television radio film literacy multiliteracies hyperliteracy 2015 howweread howwewrite cellphones mobile phones voicerecognition readingmachines https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a734dc421d94/ A leaky rocketship / Snarkmarket 2014-11-05T05:37:47+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2014/8259 robertogreco 2014 snarkmarket epic2014 epic2015 timcarmody robinsloan mattthomas blog blogging writing scaffolding lego snarkmatrix looking seeing observing sharing conversation howwelearn howwethink howwewrite history future making culturecreation media journalism slack email im twitter facebook socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f099a2c4a232/ Snarkmarket: A Concise History of the Future 2014-11-05T05:34:41+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/about_snarkmarket/a_concise_history_of_the_future/ robertogreco snarkmarket 2008 timcarmody mattthompson robinsloan blog blogging optimism writing howwewrite howwethink forwardthinking backwardthinking evolution progress inventingthefuture genesis future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:310591afb6f8/ A People's History of Tattooine (with tweets) · tcarmody · Storify 2014-09-08T05:33:43+00:00 https://storify.com/tcarmody/the-people-s-history-of-tattooine robertogreco starwars humor jacobharris timcarmody francishwang tattooine davinrisk azizgilani anildash jamesschirmer skottklebe elongreen dansinker scottklein tedhan mikemonteiro tommeagher pablodefendini chriszubak-skees https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:528c176c27b8/ The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web 2014-08-05T14:10:29+00:00 http://kottke.org/14/08/the-problem-with-okcupid-is-the-problem-with-the-social-web robertogreco timcarmody facebook okcubid 2014 data ethics abtesting socialmedia content relationships https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c3df705b85ef/ A Bookfuturist Manifesto - The Atlantic 2014-07-31T17:20:10+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/a-bookfuturist-manifesto/61231/ robertogrecobookfuturism timcarmody 2010 manifestos books culture reading https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7207253c7ad0/ Twitter / tcarmody: baby, tonight I'm writing you ... 2014-06-10T03:54:20+00:00 https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/476209140725850113 robertogreco audiencesofone timcarmody email newsletters 2014 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48925dd22cb6/ Twitter / tcarmody: Inside each of us is a little ... 2014-02-04T22:32:35+00:00 https://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/18077234719 robertogreco timcarmody 2010 twitter hayaomiyazaki multitudes miyazaki howl'smovingcastle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd6bd8b33f38/ ▶ TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube 2013-12-03T19:15:40+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAXqHmRa0E robertogreco reading writing timcarmody 2012 books papermodernism paper history scrolls experience bookfuturism mallarmé skeuomorph skills literacy literacies multiliteracies constraints stéphanemallarmé https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59906aab413c/ STET | Attention, rhythm & weight 2013-12-03T18:02:17+00:00 http://stet.editorially.com/articles/attention-rhythm-and-weight/ robertogreco allentan publishing writing internet web timcarmody 2013 papermodernism literacy fluency intuitiveness legibility metaphor interaction howweread howwewrite communication multiliteracies skills touch scrolling snowfall immersive focus distraction attention cinema cinematic film flickr usability information historiasextraordinarias narrative storytelling jose-luismoctezuma text reading multimedia rhythm pacing purpose weight animation gamedesign design games gaming mediainvention media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae56d6a028f9/ One-handed computing with the iPhone 2013-11-20T15:03:14+00:00 http://kottke.org/09/10/one-handed-computing-with-the-iphone robertogreco computersareforpeople iphone usability accessibility apple design kottke 2009 timcarmody jasonkottke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fad63d104618/ Phone solo / Snarkmarket 2013-11-20T15:01:59+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3927 robertogreco timcarmody accessibility iphone computersareforpeople design autonomy empowerment 2009 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f66041705a20/ This Isn’t Franzen’s World Anymore | Hazlitt | Random House of Canada 2013-10-16T02:17:26+00:00 http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/isnt-franzens-world-anymore robertogrecoIn my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen. Amazon wants a world in which books are either self-published or published by Amazon itself, with readers dependent on Amazon reviews in choosing books, and with authors responsible for their own promotion. The work of yakkers and tweeters and braggers, and of people with the money to pay somebody to churn out hundreds of five-star reviews for them, will flourish in that world. But what happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement? What happens to the people who want to communicate in depth, individual to individual, in the quiet and permanence of the printed word, and who were shaped by their love of writers who wrote when publication still assured some kind of quality control and literary reputations were more than a matter of self-promotional decibel levels? With social media, we are at no shortage of opinions, diagnoses, and feelings about our world, its apocalyptic implications, and our future place in it. And it increasingly feels as though a writer like Franzen is talking about a much narrower place. Instead of facts, instead of expertise, he is giving us “the quiet and permanence of the printed word,” a media artifact that is not endangered, but is no longer central. Franzen is no longer central, if he ever was. He cannot be Tolstoy. He cannot be Baldwin. He cannot even be David Foster Wallace. And if those authors were with us today, what guarantee would there be that the role they occupied would command the same respect, let alone exist? That time is ending, and Franzen knows it."]]> 2013 timcarmody jonathanfranzen daveeggers internet fiction literature writing expertise tolstoy experience nonfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ea60362339d/ Computers are for people 2013-10-01T05:56:43+00:00 http://kottke.org/13/09/computers-are-for-people robertogreco technology timcarmody 2013 assistivetechnology sarahendren humans vulnerability ability disability iphone limitations computing computers accessibility computersareforpeople disabilities zeyneptufekci https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7904c76b6736/ In living memory 2013-08-30T20:26:53+00:00 http://kottke.org/13/08/in-living-memory robertogreco us history civilrights marchonwashington 2013 1963 timcarmody activism time martinlutherkingjr aphiliprandolph rosaparks josephyelowery jamesforman bayardrustin mlk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b797a281820/ Internet: distributed, portable third spaces (with tweets) · rogre · Storify 2013-08-05T05:30:57+00:00 http://storify.com/rogre/internet-distributed-portable-third-space robertogrecointernet thirdspaces allentan timcarmody charlieloyd storify robinsloan comments thirdplaces https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f275cecb22b7/ Stéphane Mallarmé | HiLobrow 2013-02-26T23:49:24+00:00 http://hilobrow.com/2011/03/18/stephane-mallarme/ robertogreco edgardegas degas mallarmé stéphanemallarmé words language french abstraction timcarmody poetry painting 2011 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af9d71634f8b/ Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century | The Verge 2013-01-23T03:57:56+00:00 http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/22/3898584/aaron-swartz-profile-memory-to-myth robertogreco journalism information technology 2013 ethics aaronswartz activism timcarmody techsector copyright purpose education tech politics values policy https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b4ba6727fb1/ Hero’s Welcome, The Big Hairy Edition « Snarkmarket 2012-12-07T07:20:31+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6242 robertogreco longshot expression language howwewrite understanding reality meaningmaking aggregation piecingtogether pieces nostalgia creativity whatweknow history music jerryleelewis literature odysseues odyssey 2012 timcarmody erichauerbach theodyssey https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:706b94eb77d9/ Twitter / robinsloan: @audreywatters @tcarmody @mthomps ... 2012-11-05T23:33:32+00:00 https://twitter.com/robinsloan/status/265509128737280000 robertogreco snarkmarket seminars charm scaling scale robinsloan timcarmody audreywatters moocs 2012 mooc https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c030c5c31e3/ twitter « Snarkmarket 2012-07-18T23:06:15+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/tag/twitter robertogreco timcarmody robinsloan snarkmarket twitter https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a0d8e7ea5ba8/ Games in the street « Snarkmarket 2012-07-12T07:09:57+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7879 robertogreco snarkmarket play games neoteny comments edg srg minecraft sticks children creativity spikelee imagination cocolevio stickball rules robinsloan 2012 brooklyn interviews timcarmody https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70e054ad1179/ Tim Carmody spells it out. (with tweets) · maxfenton · Storify 2012-07-09T21:06:06+00:00 http://storify.com/maxfenton/tim-carmody-spells-it-out robertogreco industry labor inequity wealthdistribution wealth ponzischemes pensions 2012 finance economics history timcarmody https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00f078ebd042/ Imagination to imagination « Snarkmarket 2012-04-10T05:34:49+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7673 robertogreco imagination connection mallarmé language books reading ellenullman communication poetry 2012 timcarmody writing literature snarkmarket robinsloan stéphanemallarmé https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cefb352b085/ TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube 2012-02-21T08:45:08+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL16E261CDB64A51AF&v=CpAXqHmRa0E robertogreco design reading writing journalism history timcarmody toc2012 via:tealtan constraints billbuxton bookfuturism ebooks stéphanemallarmé paper 2012 media mediarevolutions sentencediagramming advertising photography change books publishing printing modernism context interface expectations conventions skills skeuomorph mallarmé https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abfd549bf1a3/ What (Some) People Like On Twitter « Snarkmarket 2012-01-24T07:10:52+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7301 robertogreco in-jokes laughing jokes 2011 patterns howwewrite snarkmarket timcarmody writing twitter https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:737630e6f53a/ Matthew Battles: It doesn’t take Cupertino to make textbooks interactive » Nieman Journalism Lab 2012-01-21T06:46:16+00:00 http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/matthew-battles-it-doesnt-take-cupertino-to-make-textbooks-interactive/ robertogreco ibooksauthor ibooks technology schooliness rubrics standardization autodidacts pearson timcarmody matthewbattles publishing tablets knwoledgebowl knowledge interactive textbooks books schools learning storytelling teaching education 2012 ipad apple autodidactism https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9201ed240c97/ Gibson: Dreaming in Social Media · tealtan · Storify 2012-01-11T06:39:23+00:00 http://storify.com/tealtan/gibson-dreaming-in-social-media robertogreco oversharing intimacy surrealism dreamspace networks sharedconsciousness unconsciousness sharing reading blurredrealms sleeping waking joy sarcasm snark humor telepresence presence future fiction onlinedinnerparty humanity andrewfamiglietti sciencefiction scifi socialmedia web net dreams ideasmuggling ideas books nyc maxfenton danielreetz erinkissane comments aaronstewart-ahn timcarmody twitter storify conversation 2012 allentan williamgibson https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ee2bcb99d00/ ‘This Stuff Doesn’t Change the World’: Disability and Steve Jobs’ Legacy | Epicenter | Wired.com 2011-10-10T03:34:34+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/ robertogreco disability timcarmody accessibility ipodtouch itouch stevejobs 2011 communication autism blind blindness design disabilities https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3d007a898b0/ What diversity means « Snarkmarket 2011-09-19T03:57:02+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7404 robertogreco autism aspergers timcarmody 2011 poverty class race diversity gender wealth independence childhood parenting adulthood privilege identity education diagnosis https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d05c5fd3d73/ Bless the toolmakers « Snarkmarket 2011-09-06T07:48:47+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7320 robertogreco tools apple pixar arts art robinsloan snarkmarket creativity creation media freemandyson roolmaking liberalarts lasting building software design writing timcarmody https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ddb1ab71fa5/ Harry Potter and the Comment of Wonders « Snarkmarket 2011-07-29T22:02:07+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7231 robertogreco harrypotter snarkmarket robinsloan sahelidatta timcarmody franchises books children formulas literature serials expectation anticipation childrenliterature 2011 robinsonmeyer fandom compulsoryfandom sharedexperience culture classideas https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a0d906003462/ There Is One Apple, But Many Microsofts: The Company You Don’t Know | Epicenter | Wired.com 2011-07-22T23:44:05+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/there-is-one-apple-but-many-microsofts-the-company-you-dont-know/ robertogreco apple microsoft organizations timcarmody 2011 business software revenue hardware https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:183137a24d89/ ‘March Backwards Into the Future’ — Marshall McLuhan’s Century | Epicenter | Wired.com 2011-07-22T03:34:34+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/march-backwards-into-the-future-marshall-mcluhans-century/ robertogreco
In his books The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951), The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962), Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967), War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) and From Cliché to Archetype (1970), McLuhan analyzed the effect of a wide range of media on individual psychology and common culture.

This essay examines McLuhan’s legacy by reading one of his rare experiments in new media, The Medium is the Massage, a collaboration with designer Quentin Fiore that remains McLuhan’s best-selling work."]]> 2011 marshallmcluhan timcarmody https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e918eede8198/ The Coming Cloud Wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook) | Epicenter | Wired.com 2011-07-20T23:22:14+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/cloud-wars-goog-msft-fb/all/1 robertogreco timcarmody google+ google amazon apple facebook microsoft skype twitter social cloud cloudcomputing identity sharing notification communication bing search spotify https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b1fbe5eed5b2/ Post by Robin Sloan; "the Borders bankruptcy isn't essentially about the book business" 2011-07-20T06:51:20+00:00 https://plus.google.com/u/0/108770025895417156764/posts/HZEV4owg9qz robertogreco robinsloan timcarmody bordersbooks books booksellers print publishing retail bankruptcy 2011 genre franchises fiction literature https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62341f0081f6/ You’ve got the sickness, I’ve got the medicine « Snarkmarket 2011-07-12T22:09:02+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5832 robertogreco boredom jimrossignol timcarmody alanjacobs andrewsimone walkerpercy tv television 2010 kierkegaard idleness https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a395f8297d7/ The Case of The Traveling Text Message - Michele Tepper - Interactions Everywhere 2011-07-02T22:29:43+00:00 http://www.micheletepper.com/blog/2011/6/14/the-case-of-the-traveling-text-message.html robertogreco design writing television ui text userinterface narrative film tv 2011 sherlock timcarmody screens computers mobile phones storytelling perspective filmmaking classideas glowingrectangles texting sms messaging depiction https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dd2e60b0b755/ Real-World Math - storify.com 2011-07-02T22:23:35+00:00 http://storify.com/rogre/real-world-math robertogreco math mathematics realworld cv storytelling storify collaboration twitter 2011 timcarmody robinsloan dianakimball games boardgames problemsolving statistics probability conversation comments https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5690f75467f8/ For Dewey, Bellow, and Sweetness: The Story of the Chicago Comma - storify.com 2011-06-30T01:46:36+00:00 http://storify.com/tcarmody/for-dewey-bellow-and-sweetness-the-story-of-the-ch?awesm=sfy.co_CMa&utm_campaign=tcarmody&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_source=direct-sfy.co&utm_content=storify-pingback robertogreco timcarmody danielsinker oxford oxfordcomma punctuation chicago 2011 manualofstyle writing style ego humor appropriation renaming classideas storify commas howwewrite parentheses quotationmarks dumbquotes serialcomma language communication comments styleguides https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:43956053e543/ For Dewey, Bellow, and Sweetness: The Story of the Chicago Comma - storify.com 2011-06-30T01:46:36+00:00 http://storify.com/tcarmody/for-dewey-bellow-and-sweetness-the-story-of-the-ch?awesm=sfy.co_CMa robertogreco timcarmody danielsinker oxford oxfordcomma punctuation chicago 2011 manualofstyle writing style ego humor appropriation renaming classideas storify commas howwewrite parentheses quotationmarks dumbquotes serialcomma language communication johndewey saulbellow styleguides https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:217d5150ad0c/ Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction - storify.com 2011-06-04T23:43:41+00:00 http://storify.com/tcarmody/alan-jacobs-the-pleasures-of-reading-in-an-age-of- robertogreco alanjacobs timcarmody reading literature distraction storytelling pleasure shame audiobooks books internet web online storify structure fiction life nonfiction 2011 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1c2d7825d1d8/ Descartes didn’t say that « Snarkmarket 2011-05-15T19:35:56+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6844 robertogreco psychology cities twitter quotes descartes joelkotkin timcarmody snarkmarket attribution https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3cc902d22f8b/ Giving our feelings a name 2011-05-08T15:58:43+00:00 http://kottke.org/11/05/giving-our-feelings-a-name robertogreco psychology twitter networks feelings mlk pennjillette timcarmody quotes authority jokes freud attribution misattribution social marktwain osamabinladen 2011 clarencedarrow meganmcardle jessicadovey drewgrant martinlutherkingjr https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00cd4935bde8/ Twitter / @Timothy Burke: "Interdisciplinarity" see ... 2011-04-27T02:06:10+00:00 http://twitter.com/swarthmoreburke/status/63037778606292992 robertogreco interdisciplinary interdisciplinarity crossdisciplinary ideasmuggling crosspollination bricolage antidisciplinary black-marketscholarship pirates piracy cv academia academics timcarmody alanjacobs navneetalang suzannefischer transdisciplinary https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b0c3f4cddf3f/ Athletes are different from you and me 2011-04-27T01:49:27+00:00 http://kottke.org/10/08/athletes-are-different-from-you-and-me robertogreco sports athletes davidfosterwallace timcarmody billsimmons katiebaker michaeljordan hemingway fscottfitzgerald tonyhawk eddiedow specialization pathology behavior humans society dedication specialists ernesthemingway https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9415748f8ef7/ How Grad School Is Like Trying to Make the NBA - storify.com 2011-04-27T01:44:32+00:00 http://storify.com/tcarmody/how-grad-school-is-like-trying-to-make-the-nba robertogreco education highered highereducation timcarmody sports gradschool teaching nba basketball comparison 2010 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:75d996429819/ Short Schrift: The New Liberal Arts: Photography ["Photography is a comprehensive science; photography is a comparative literature."] 2011-04-10T01:00:34+00:00 http://short-schrift.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-liberal-arts-photography.html robertogreco timcarmody 2009 newliberalarts photography seeing intuition craft writing documents actions objects meaning expressions communication logic grammar composition art visual https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:588468f5fb19/ Cracking the Twitter Case  | American Journalism Review 2011-03-14T05:32:49+00:00 http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5048 robertogreco twitter socialnetworking us @mayoremanuel mayoremanuel rahmemanuel timcarmody journalism history technology zadiesmith storytelling danielsinker https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4126ce71f83c/ A noteworthy feed « Snarkmarket 2011-03-14T05:21:14+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6703 robertogreco bettyannsloan robinsloan handmeups handmedowns generations snarkmarket commenting timcarmody tumblr mattthompson frankchimero steppingout snarkmarketcommentertoblogger https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cef2c2acf8b/ Coming out « Snarkmarket 2011-03-04T07:15:19+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6694 robertogreco timcarmody snarkmarket adoption parenting humanities digitalhumanities digital privacy online yearoff experience life beauty growth fear anxiety courage lifechanging identity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc806f41b332/ The Last Hours of @MayorEmanuel « Snarkmarket 2011-02-27T07:44:19+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6674 robertogreco timcarmody rahmemanuel mayoremanuel chicago writing fiction multiverse snarkmarket humor realitystretching politics storytelling thenewstorytelling storify 2011 elections @mayoremanuel https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:99d30de8cce0/