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Here’s a section from Suw Chartman’s Strange Attractor blog on Corante that seems to have spot-on advice about future media–and that means the most diverse kinds of media. Digital media will get and keep the customer’s attention. How? By making it relevant to the person. This is a big issue. People won’t buy content unless it is relevant. – make ...

Community Mobilization point to Rocketboom for uncovering an account of a Subway Flash-Mob party.  As a technology cellphones are priming the culture for instantaneous plan adjustment.  A flash-mob is equally dependent on the technology as it is on the culture of the society.  Would a flash-mob work equally as well in a repressive culture as it would in an open ...

Suddenly your computer is a telephone. You can talk to your computer (besides uttering unflattering oaths when it screws up!) and use it to communicate with associates. Leave that old phone on the hook! Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has been coming for years. Suddenly the technology is solid and everybody is getting into the act. The latest is Microsoft ...

The New York Times has been running a series of very informative articles about cancer. Today’s is about environment and cancer. It’s the fourth in a five-part series. Seems to me it’s a handy reference set, so here’s permanent back-door links to the articles that avoid the pricey archives. I’ll update the list when the final article, genetics and cancer, ...