There are few books I have read as many times as Italo Calvino's critical testament Six Memos for the Next Millennium. What makes it such a remarkable text is how he simultaneously embodies and performs the indispensable literary qualities that form the 'memos' in the text: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and the satisfyingly unfinished consistency.
Just read how he finishes off the quickness memo with an indicative story and think about our obsession with the 'speed' of the Web and digital transformations all around us. In many ways these shifting tectonic Internet...
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CAST was recently commissioned by Rackspace, the world's second largest cloud service provider, to research the 'social life of the cloud'. The intermediary on the project was 3 Monkeys Communications who conduct PR for Rackspace. We were given a blank canvas with the only remit being to find something interesting and unique about how UK citizens are using cloud-based services. Our sponsor did not interfere in our research gathering, analysis or publishing at any stage. The result was 'Generation Cloud'.
Overall we considered the project a great success and it was covered in more than 400 newspapers...
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Thanks for visiting my new website. This brief post outlines the steps involved in developing and launching it.
Development
This is the first personal website that I developed on my Localhost using the web server on my Mac OS 10.6 as a development and testing environment. It took about five days from concept to launch. When it was ready to launch I migrated it on to my Linux web server using only Terminal to migrate files back and forth and match the installation environments. This approach mirrored the one we were working through in the first few classes of our MA Digital Journalism digital...
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