DISQUS

Stop beating around the bush Gary and be honest with your followers, you need reviews of your book right. I mean that's blatantly obvious. That's why you're edging traffic ever closer to the Amazon book page, not because you care about the discussion.

Well how about this. Email me for my postal address. Send me a copy of your book. I'll review it on Amazon. A straight talking review. I'll practice what you preach. If you're stuff's good then the review'll be good. If it's mediocre it will be a mediocre review. If it sucks then I'll say so. Whatever the response it will be honest. Your call.

Oh and I forgot to mention the challenge: sum up your Tumblr thoughts in a single tweet and hit me up on Twitter at @LondonTheatre

Fascinating interview Gary. One question: you mention Tumblr. You suggest that over the next couple of years it will be a platform to be reckoned with. Why?

Loic et Mike, vous êtes des gamins quand même. Pire que des écoliers. Grow up.

Nothing is built on duality except those endeavours that seek consciously to explore it. Duality derives from our blinkered interpretation of construction.

Ever seen the changing of the guard? It happens regularly outside Buckingham Palace. It happens all too rarely in people's lives.

Even Gary Veynerchuk will one day be out of touch with his medium. And it has nothing to do with technology, you can always learn how to use new technology because it comes with a user manual. This is about culture. The values and attributes that we affix to our cultural identities are the result of a very specific and limited time frame and they are rarely transposable. So it would be difficult to transpose 1960's cultural identity over new millennium cultural identity.

To keep up with the times, requires relentless experimentation and a lifetime of transient thought.

Thomas Hawk's photographic eye and understanding of composition is far superior. Unless you're talking about complete photoshop manipulation, if you don't have a decent composition and interesting subject matter to start with, you're not going to yield anything worth looking at.

A resonant rant, I enjoyed it. The reason why this species is long since due a dramatic evolutionary change of form is that 99% of its constituents believe they are insignificant in the greater scheme of the universe. The individual is in itself a universe. Long live the individual.

Long enough 'dude', long enough.

Popego.com...a more arbitrary Web. Popego does not bring 'meaning' to the Web, that's a hugely pretentious tag line. I learn nothing new about the world using you service, instead what I get is yet another layer of data over an already saturated market of social network aggregation services. What you don't seem to understand is that the centralization of information does not imply a more intuitive, informative or enriching experience of the Web. It is a quick fix to deal with a seemingly overwhelming amount of data on the Web. But the pay off is losing all the tacit learning and discovery that comes through ad hoc web browsing. I don't need people to dictate my preferences to me. You are not a source of creativity, you are simply feeding off everyone elses content but trying to convince us that the few novelties you've come up with over FriendFeed is supposed to be revolutionary. You paid a lot of money to be in the TechCrunch top 50, money that would have been better spent actually reasearching ideas that have never been tried before on the Web.

Dude have some cojones, don't backpeddle just cos your potential funders are getting antsy. Backpeddling destroys respect more than blunt statements do.

The problem is Robert, that hype has become a veritable media language that anyone connected to the Internet or mainstream TV has become well versed in.

You've probably already noticed that the content of popular stories tends to be less important than the idea of the story's popularity itself.

Hype is a type of system, it has a structure, patterns and obeys laws like other systems. Few people except the people at the center of hype benefit from the phenomenon and it is too short lived to devote any serious part of your life to.

The better plan is to focus on doing solid work. Hype will always take care of itself.

Nils,

Hope you're well. Fellow 9ruler here.

I like your screencast work and was just wondering What program you used to make it? What screencast software would you recommend to a newbie?

Thanks,

Andrew

This is a very good post and some solid logic for password creation. I'm going to give one of the examples a try from now on.

Hi Nils,

Thanks for leaving a comment on Desperate Curiosity, for some reason though, it got deleted a day later...mmm violence and databases as a friend of mine would say.

Language day. Having learnt French at an early age and then Japanese following my wife to Japan, I've begun to get a better idea of the impact of the English language in this era of globalisation. You are right of course that it is not just the language that spreads but also culture, both go hand in hand. It may well be that in the future we see Mandarin become the lingua franca, but for that to happen, Chinese culture needs to be readily exportable and consumable, which at the moment I don't think it is.

In the case of France it's interesting to see how defiant the government has been in warding off any influence of the English language, approaching it as quasi 'colonisation', with acute resentment shown towards the US. This comes and goes with the waves of nationalism that spread through the country. Japan on the other was colonised/occupied by the US and to a degree she embraced north American culture. It reminds me of a type of relationship I had in high school. A 'friend' kept pestering me day in and day out, but it wasn't until I slapped him in the face that we became real friends...

No, touch wood, I've not had problem with copyright, like you I always get permission or use creative commons licensed material.

That documentary looks interesting. I'll try find it. Funny it reminds me of something else, another border, different place:

http://www.borderfilmproject.com/

We could continue this link rally for quite some time I imagine...now there's an interesting idea for a post: site hopping through user link association.

These are absolutely fascinating and somewhat reminiscent of Rachel Papo's work in Israel, albeit a male version.

http://www.rachelpapo.com/serialno3817131/index...

I was just wondering about issues of copyright and displaying this photographer's material. How did you tackle that, if at all?

Nils, I'm hardly surprised, it's a great show you put on here. From the start I could sense the extra mile you go to in writing and presentation. I'm a big fan of the Tarski theme too. It's clean and easy. Keep up the good work!

Excellent theme viewer with regularly updated content. However the daily down time is really frustrating. Is theme viewer running on unreliable hosting? Is there any hope of stabalizing it in the future?

I've always liked Tarkovsky's idea of 'Sculpting in Time' where seens appear to stand still :

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/extarscp...

Amanda Congdon...sounds like a character from a 'beaver picture', or a Woolrich script.

What the pro-scoble, oh-my-god-the-outrage crowd needs to understand, and I think Mr. S has well understood it himself, is that the trolls (myself included on this thread) are a necessary evil: a) any controversy brings in the punters and b) without a 'negative' force there would be nothing to spur blogs like this on.

Ah the egos of rich middle-aged white men...they never could quite free themselves from what Freud dubbed the 'mother complex'...thank god the red alternative is on the horizon, not that it will be any better, but at least it will bring change to the appalling white hegemony we have to put up with.

Scoble, the writing is on the wall when your own team turns against you...change or be changed.

That is a very neat little application. The demand for podcasts is definitely growing. Well worth the download. Thanks for sharing.