Author Archives: Thomas Purves

Twittering the whispering revolution

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Twitter is a massive signal. It’s still at least half kludgy, it’s nowhere near end-state but – the idea is going to be big. I’ve been thinking of this signal since in came across strongly in my Dead Media workshop … Continue reading →

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Dragging the futurists into the future: a Beal xml feed

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Shhh, can you keep a secret? There’s great minds at work in a tower, located high aloft the downtown of this very city. In fact, though you’d almost never guess it, the Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity publishes presentations from … Continue reading →

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Stowe nails it on Attention Overload (Shmoverload)

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Great post by Stowe today Overload, Shmoverload on this messy business of treating attention as a commodity. I’m coming around to this way of thinking myself that attention is not the scarce commodity. Time is a scarce commodity. The number … Continue reading →

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