Andrew Golis

Be it hereby resolved that I will read more of Global Voices.

I love little insights like this.  On why young people are more comfortable using social technology to spread information to their friends than the oldsters:

As a point of comparison, our “average” older person uses relatively few communication channels. Phone, fax, email – tools that are often depersonalized, tools largely “learned” in the work environment. It is hard for us to separate our social expectations from the tools we use, so some of us may feel uncomfortable pushing political messages in these forms. Our average “younger” person uses multiple communication tools; their toolset includes the traditional vehicles, and is extended to include new venues (social networks, IM) and forms (video, presence apps). Young people embrace these new tools because they’re more personalized, lower effort, and “learned” in a social context. Email is the tool of work, a wall post is the new tool of personal communication.

As Clay Shirky says, it’s only when technology becomes invisible, an assumed foundation on which normal interaction is built, that it’s fully revolutionary implications can be seen.

I haven’t had a personal blog in a few years, all of my blogospheric energy has been directed toward my day jobs, helping to run TPM Media and managing the discussion blog TPMCafe.

But seeing as how TPMCafe is a place for complete thoughts, often from august academics and experts, I’ve largely held back from the more free-wheeling conversational blogging that is more my nature.  So this will be a place where I’ll collect links I like and share half-baked thoughts not good enough for TPM.  And maybe a funny video or something on occasion.

Standards be damned.  Welcome.